Botanical gardens (Ravanella Madagascarensiis), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Title:
- Botanical gardens (Ravanella Madagascarensiis), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- Landscape and the Environment
- Creator:
- Ferrez, Marc
- Creation Date:
- 1870
- ID Number:
- 83.104.008
- File Name:
- 83.104.008.jpg
- Transcription:
- Ravanella Madagascarensiis
- Work Type:
- Photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- albumen prints
- Subject:
- Collecting and classifying nature
Tourism, landscape, scenery, commercial landscape photography
Rio de Janeiro
Brasil - Measurement:
- 35.9 x 31.1 (centimeters, height x width)
- Description:
- Vertical image of several Ravenala madagascariensis (aka Traveler's Tree) along a small pool of water. The trees are upright with spiky, light-colored leaf stalks reaching up in a fan shape to large flat leaves with split edges. The water in the foreground looks nearly black. Image in a matte with rounded corners and brown geometric edging, with the plant name printed below.
- Notes:
- The current name of this plant is Ravenala madagascariensis, the alternate spelling in the title is printed on the image mount itself.
Albumen print mounted on commercially printed sheet. - Cite As:
- Marc Ferrez (Brazilian, 1843 - 1923, Botanical Gardens (Ravanella Madagascarensiis), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 1870. Albumen print. Image: 7 1/8 x 4 1/2 inches (18.1 x 11.4 cm); sheet: 14 1/8 x 12 1/4 inches (35.9 x 31.1 cm). Gift of Jonathan Stein, Class of 1966, 83.104.008.
- Repository:
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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