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Surinam quassia wood (Quassia amara): flowering stem and leaf. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.
Burnett, M. A., active 1850.Date: [1853]Reference: 24016i
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Niepa Bark Tree (Quassia indica (Gaertner) Nooteb.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate sections of flowers, fruit and seed. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1686]Reference: 16113i
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John Bull as the patient of promotors of competing therapies; representing British parliamentary reform. Aquatint by S. de Wilde, 1809.
De Wilde, Samuel, 1751-1832.Date: Published for the Satirist July 1st. 1809Reference: 12204i
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Collecção de memorias sobre a quassia amarga, e simaruba. Com estampas / por Fr. José Mariano Velloso.
Velloso, José Mariano da Conceição, 1742-1811.Date: 1801
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A triumphant American slave woman representing quassia (ingredient in acoholic drinks) is carried aloft by two brewers; representing the outcry against a tax on private brewing (?). Etching by J. Gillray, 1806.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 10 June 1806Reference: 25938i