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Background imageMarianne North Collection: 65. Foliage and flowers of a climbing plant with royal palms

65. Foliage and flowers of a climbing plant with royal palms and Sugarloaf Mountain in the background, Brazil, 1880
This handsome climbing shrub (Roupellia grata, Wall.) is a native of Sierra Leone, and its flowers are very sweet scented. It is occasionally cultivated in this country

Background imageMarianne North Collection: 64. Foliage and fruit of mammae apple, or South American Apricot, 1880

64. Foliage and fruit of mammae apple, or South American Apricot, 1880
A tropical American tree (Mammea americana, L.) of the Guttiferae, cultivated for its fruit, the outer rind of which is bitter; but the flesh is sweet and aromatic, and is made into preserves

Background imageMarianne North Collection: 62. Foliage, Flowers, and fruit of False Tomato, painted in Braz

62. Foliage, Flowers, and fruit of False Tomato, painted in Braz
This plant, Cyphomnandra betacea, Sendt. (syn. Solanum betaceum, Cav.), is a native of Western and Central America, and is cultivated in some countries for its fruit

Background imageMarianne North Collection: 61. Organ Peak at Theresoplis and Bay of Rio below

61. Organ Peak at Theresoplis and Bay of Rio below

Background imageMarianne North Collection: 56. View under the Ferns at Gongo, Brazil

56. View under the Ferns at Gongo, Brazil
In front a Slave Woman who brought the artists provisions over eight miles of forest road

Background imageMarianne North Collection: Marianne North

Marianne North
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Background imageMarianne North Collection: 56. View under the Ferns at Gongo, Brazil

56. View under the Ferns at Gongo, Brazil
In front a Slave Woman who brought the artists provisions over eight miles of forest road

Background imageMarianne North Collection: 55. Brazilian Wild Flowers

55. Brazilian Wild Flowers
Vellozia verruculosa, Mart. (blue), Xyris sp. (yellow), a purple-flowered orchid (Bletia sp.), and a delicately-scented epiphyte (Clusia), to which the artist was attracted by its scent

Background imageMarianne North Collection: 54. Cabazina Pears, Brazil

54. Cabazina Pears, Brazil
One of the many varieties of Psidium Guayava, Raddi (syn. P.pyriforme, Linn.); a some-what bitter fruit having a peach-like skin

Background imageMarianne North Collection: 2. Common Tobacco

2. Common Tobacco
A plant belonging to the same-family as the Potato. Several other kinds of tobacco are culti-vated, but this kind (Nicotiana Tabacum)

Background imageMarianne North Collection: Pandanus; oil on canvas

Pandanus; oil on canvas
Inscribed in paint on verso of canvas, PANDANUS commen [sic] in the DELTA of the ZAMBESI, 1858. In Livingstones Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi




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