Book ID: 102749
Mabberley, David J. and Pilar de San Pio Aladrén
La carta de colores de Haenke de la Expedicion Malaspina: un enigma/ Haenke's Malaspina colour - chart: an enigma. 2011. 1 facsimile of the colour - chart. Some col. figs. 35 p. gr8vo. Hardcover. - Bilingual (English / Spanish).
An investigation of Thaddäus Haenke's colour- chart and cognate manuscript materials in Madrid shows that the chart was used by Haenke on the Malaspina Expedition to encode colours for his own botanical illustrations. It has at its nucleus an early chart of Ferdinand Bauer, a chart given to Haenke in Vienna in 1786. Haenke's testimony, that he lost all his books and papers in a shipwreck in the Rio de la Plata in 1789, is therefore inaccurate.