Nankeen Cotton Flowers And Boll
by Science Photo Library
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Nankeen Cotton Flowers And Boll
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Science Photo Library
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Photograph - Photograph
Description
Nankeen cotton (Gossypium beligiosum) flowers and boll. This watercolour is plate 9 from one of a set of three volumes by the Indian-born British artist and amateur ornithologist Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). These volumes, dating from 1858, consist of artworks of the people, flora and fauna of 19th-century India, particularly in and around the Nilgiri Hills (then known as the Neilgherry Hills) in the state of Tamil Nadu, in southern India.
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October 2nd, 2018
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