CARL FRIEDRICH PHILIPP VON MARTIUS (1794-1868) AND JOHANN MORITZ RUGENDAS (1802-1858) A Brazilian landscape with Indians encamped under palms by a river, a snake and crocodile in the foreground
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CARL FRIEDRICH PHILIPP VON MARTIUS (1794-1868) AND JOHANN MORITZ RUGENDAS (1802-1858) A Brazilian landscape with Indians encamped under palms by a river, a snake and crocodile in the foreground

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CARL FRIEDRICH PHILIPP VON MARTIUS (1794–1868) AND JOHANN MORITZ RUGENDAS (1802–1858)A Brazilian landscape with Indians encamped under palms by a river, a snake and crocodile in the foregroundPencil, ink, and watercolor on paperInscribed along lower margin: Manicaria Saccifera / Desmoncus orthacanthos Tab:98Paper size: 18 1/2 x 14 1/2 in.; Framed size: 28 5/8 x 24 1/8 in. Literature:C. F. P. von Martius, Historia Naturalis Palmarum, II (De Brasiliae Palmis Singulatim)(Leipzig, 1823–1850), pp. 87, 140–141, pl. 98 (Manicaria Saccifera / Desmoncus orthacanthos). This remarkable watercolor is a study for plate 98 in volume two of Martius’s exhaustive botanical work, Historia Naturalis Palmarum. The final lithograph credits the lithographer, C. Hess (in lap. del), working from the author’s model (Martius palm ad nat.). While the published plate omits the dramatic foreground elements—a snake and a crocodile—this original composition includes them, suggesting a narrative and ecological contex

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