Cochineal production at the town of Guaspaltepeque Product:Fine art poster showing the works from Stonecutter

showing the works from Stonecutter Street looking north

Friday 15th October 1965

Man throwing a pot on a wheel

holding his slate on which he had started to write out the London Municipality Bill which had had to be abandoned due to lack of time

view of insects on camellia with details of puparium and adult female at gestation

Cochineal production at the town of Guaspaltepeque Product:Fine art poster showing the works from StonecutterSchematic view of the town of Guaspaltepeque, in Oaxaca State, Mexico,as a centre for cochineal production. The simplified landscape shows a church and curate's house, but mainly the agriculture, collection and processing of cochineal, the traditional Mexican dye, from the scale insect Dactylopius coccus. From the manuscript copy paper 'Dr Houston's letter to Sir Hans Sloane giving an account of some plants and enclosing a draught of the town of