Pen and ink drawing on paper of Tragoselinum (now Pimpinella saxifraga) by Claude Aubriet c.1700. Recto: LR: Handwritten in ink: 'aubriet fecit'; Handwritten in graphite pencil: 'Tragoselinum a examiner' / LL: 'coupe blanche le cercle du milieu rousatre [roussatre] la racine brune'. Current botanical name: Pimpinella saxifraga. French inscription means 'Tragoselinum to check' and 'the root is brown outside, white inside, with a reddish ring in the matrix'. English vernacular name: Burnet Saxifrage
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Pen and ink on paper with grey wash. 22.5 cm x 16.7 cm. pen and ink. paper. grey wash