Image: Botanical study - The Manzanilla Tree taken at Bocca chica - Botanical-k06526

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Description: Offered for sale by Abbott and Holder when it was described as "Botanical study. Initialled. 1741. Columbia. Cartagena de Indias: ‘The Manzanilla Tree taken at Bocca chica to show / the men that they might neither cut not sleep near it, a bow was / pin’d at the top of every Sergeant’s tent, in order to make the soldiers / acquainted with and to avoid it… F.M: J.G: (?) March the 12th 1741’. Sheet numbered ‘159’. Pen, brush and ink. Inscribed, dated and signed with initials. A record from Vice Admiral Edward Vernon invasion fleet prior to the Battle of Cartagena. 15.5x12.5 inches." Manzanilla (Hippomane mancinella) fruit are poisonous when eaten, and the sap causes blistering.
Title: Botanical study - The Manzanilla Tree taken at Bocca chica - Botanical-k06526
Credit: https://www.abbottandholder-thelist.co.uk/archive-anon/
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