Lot No. 3: Hendrik van Rheede

LARGE HAND COLORED AQUATINTS FROM THE BOOK TITLED HORTUS MALABARICUS (GARDEN OF MALABAR)

Medium: Hand Colored Copper Engraving
Year: Circa 1680
Size: 19.2 x 14.9 Inches
Place: London

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Hendrik van Rheede

LARGE HAND COLORED AQUATINTS FROM THE BOOK TITLED HORTUS MALABARICUS (GARDEN OF MALABAR)

First edition

Year: Circa 1680

Size: Plate-mark Size: 41.5 x 33.5 cm (16.3 x 13.1 Inches)
Sheet Size: 49 x 38 cm (19.2 x 14.9 Inches)

Colored by hand on paper

Excellent condition.

Hortus Malabaricus (1678-1693) Selected illustrations from the stunning Hortus Malabaricus (Garden of Malabar), an epic treatise dealing with the medicinal properties of the flora in the Indian state of Kerala. Originally written in Latin, it was compiled over a period of nearly 30 years and published in Amsterdam between 1678 and 1693 in 12 volumes of about 500 pages each, with a total of 794 copper plate engravings.

The book was conceived by Hendrik van Rheede (1636-1691), who was the Governor of the Dutch East India Company in Malabar where he organised a detailed survey of the native plants, in particularly those of economic or medical significance, which was undertaken by a considerable number of Dutch botanists and physicians as well as local healers and scholars; one of the main sources for the text was a work owned by the physician Itti Achudan from Kerala, whose contributions to the text were translated from his original Malayalam into Latin. The plants are all given their local names in Sanskrit and Malayalam as well as Arabic and Latin.

The book records not just species that have since become extinct but also the local medical practices, with details of the diseases that a plant may cure and the relevant dosage. It is generally considered an accurate record and representation of the local flora.

The work was edited by a team of nearly a hundred including physicians (such as Ranga Bhat, Vinayaka Pandit, Appu Bhat and Itti Achuden) professors of medicine and botany, amateur botanists (such as Arnold Seyn, Theodore Jansson of Almeloveen, Paul Hermann, Johannes Munnicks, Joannes Commelinus, Abraham a Poot), and technicians, illustrators and engravers, together with the collaboration of company officials, clergymen (D. John Caesarius and the Discalced Carmelite Mathaeus of St. Josephs Monastery at Varapuzha). Van Rheede was also assisted by the King of Cochin and the ruling Zamorin of Calicut. Prominent among the Indian contributors were three Gouda Saraswat Brahmins named Ranga Bhat, Vinayaka Pandit, Appu Bhat and Malayali physician, Itti Achuden, who was an Ezhava doctor of the Mouton Coast of Malabar.

Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Draakenstein was a Dutch traveler, the one time Governor of Cochin and a naturalist whom worked for the Dutch East India Company in the 17th century.

Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman

Excellent condition.

	Nickname	Amount(Rs)	Type	Date & Time(IST)
1	anon0142	59400.00	Regular	22-08-2024 06:08:33 PM IST

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Lot No. 3: Hendrik van Rheede

LARGE HAND COLORED AQUATINTS FROM THE BOOK TITLED HORTUS MALABARICUS (GARDEN OF MALABAR)

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Hendrik van Rheede

LARGE HAND COLORED AQUATINTS FROM THE BOOK TITLED HORTUS MALABARICUS (GARDEN OF MALABAR)

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