Coffea arabica L. (Arabica Coffee): finished drawing of leafy shoot and berries
Date:
ca. 1768
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink, gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 3/4 × 8 5/8 inches (27.3 × 21.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower center: "Coffee No.1"; inscribed in graphite, verso, upper right: "Coffee tree [...] Vol 2 of 226"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.8518
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Paul Hulton, Luigi Balugani's drawings of African plants, From the collection made by James Bruce of Kinnaird on his travels to discover the source of the Nile 1767-1773 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1991, p. 97, pl. 219, QK98.183 B2 H85 1991 (YCBA)