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Deformed melon c. 1630-40

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c. 1630-40

Description

A drawing of a deformed specimen of the melon, 'Cucumis melo', a herbaceous annual of the Cucurbitaceae family; mounted in a Cassiano mount type D. Many of the drawings in Cassiano’s ‘paper museum’ are notable for the clarity with which the specimens are depicted. This sheet shows at actual size two views - external and cross-section - of an anomalous ‘twin’ melon, a single fruit that has grown abnormally due to two ovaries on the same flower developing simultaneously after pollination.
Alternate title: Melon, 'Cucumis melo' L.
Descriptive Medium: 'Watercolour and bodycolour over black chalk', 'black chalk, bodycolour', 'watercolour painting'
Additional Makers: Collection of Cassiano Dal Pozzo (1588-1657) (collector)