The Breadfruit, painted at Singapore
Oil on board, no date. According to the Official Guide to the North Gallery, Fifth Edition, 1892, ; The Breadfruit, Artocarpus incisa, Linn. is a tree of moderate size, a native of the South Sea Islands, where its fruit forms the chief food of the inhabitants, answering in use and taste our potato... Read more
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Filename: NOR_532_070525pl002319.jpg
Size: 3827 x 4713 (7.3MB)
Date: 3rd December 2007
Author: North, Marianne (1830-1890)
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The Breadfruit, painted at Singapore
Oil on board, no date. According to the Official Guide to the North Gallery, Fifth Edition, 1892, ; The Breadfruit, Artocarpus incisa, Linn. is a tree of moderate size, a native of the South Sea Islands, where its fruit forms the chief food of the inhabitants, answering in use and taste our potato. A cloth is made from the fibre of the young trees; canoes from the trunks, and a kind of glue from the sap...The Butterflies are Papilio polytes
© RBG KEW
Media ID 654402
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Filename: NOR_532_070525pl002319.jpg