Marianne North Gallery

45. Harvesting the Sugar-Cane in Minas Geraes, Brazil

The solid stems of the sugar-cane (Saccharum offcinarum, Linn.) grow ten, or even as much as fifteen, feet high, and the -sugar-juice is expressed from them by machinery. The harvest is always a festival for men and beasts, the latter growing very fa

© RBG KEW

Art, Artist, Brazil, Farmers, Field, Marianne North, Minas Geraes, Painting

27. Chilian Lilies and other Flowers in Black Jug and ornamented

Behind is a yellow Calceolaria and a blue Heliotrope, with the beautiful striped Placea ornata, Miers, in the centre, and three varieties or species of Leucocoryne below. The scarlet flower is a species of Phycella, and the small yellow-flowered shru

© RBG KEW

Art, Artist, Calceolaria, Heliotrope, Leaves, Leucocoryne, Marianne North, Painting, Phycella, Purpal, Red, White, Yellow

4. Puzzle -Monkey Trees and Guanacos, Chili

Pehuen is the Chilian name of the familiar Araucaria imbricata, Pav. here represented in full development at home close under the Cordilleras of Chili, where there are no monkeys, and
where it loses its branches as it grows old, and its thick bark

© RBG KEW

1795, 1892, Art, Artist, Branches, Darwin States, Deer, Landscape, Marianne North, Monkey, Mountains, Painting, South American