Hendrik Claudius
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Hendrik Claudius
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Hendrik Claudius aka Heinrich Claudius was a German painter and apothecary or physician, noted for his 17th-century watercolours of South African plants and animals. Claudius arrived in the Cape Colony from Batavia in 1682 to paint plants of medicinal interest. He joined Ensign Olof Bergh's second expedition in 1683 to Namaqualand in a quest to locate the source of rich copper ore. It is thought that two years later he also joined Governor Simon van der Stel who had the same goal, and that he wa
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German painter and apothecary
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2023-07-12T10:11:13Z
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