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ALEXANDER MARSHAL (C. 1620-82)

Chilli pepper, sweet pepper, ginger and clary sage

c. 1675-82

RCIN 924413

All the plants depicted here have culinary uses. Ginger was introduced from the East Indies around 1605, and peppers, or capsicums, had been introduced to Europe from the Americas in the first half of the sixteenth century. The ginger plant depicted here was grown by Marshal’s friend Henry Compton, Bishop of London, in his garden at Fulham Palace.


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