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Reconectando las colecciones de Cinchona en Madrid y Kew (Real Expedición Botánica al Virreinato del Perú)

  • Real Jardín Botánico Madrid (map)

Reconnecting Ruiz and Pavon’s collections of Cinchona bark (1777-1787) housed between the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and Madrid.

Scrap sketching paper used as a seed collection in the Ruiz and Pavon Peruvian Cinchona collection in Kew. The image has been traced to the ‘The dying Gaul’ aka ‘The dying Galatian’ statue now housed in the Capitoline Museum. Probably sketched from …

Scrap sketching paper used as a seed collection in the Ruiz and Pavon Peruvian Cinchona collection in Kew. The image has been traced to the ‘The dying Gaul’ aka ‘The dying Galatian’ statue now housed in the Capitoline Museum. Probably sketched from a print.



Earlier Event: May 19
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Later Event: October 21
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