James Bruce

1730 — 1794

Scottish explorer and botanist (1730–1794)

James Bruce of Kinnaird was a Scottish traveller and travel writer who physically confirmed the source of the Blue Nile. He spent more than a dozen years in North and East Africa and in 1770 became the first European to trace and document the course of the Nile by following it upstream from Egypt through Sudan to its origins in the Blue Nile in Ethiopia.

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Arundinaria alpina K. Schum. (African Bamboo): finished drawing of habit with roots

Arundinaria alpina K. Schum. (African Bamboo): finished drawing of sections of stem and of shoot with leaves

Bocorvus abyssinicus (Abyssinian Ground Hornbill)

Bostrychia carunculata (Wattled Ibis)

Cassia Fistula (Purging cassia): finished drawing of leafy shoot with flowers

Coccinia abyssinica (Lam.): finished drawing, the tuber and detail of fruit

Coracias abyssinicus (Abyssinian Roller)

Corvs crassirostris (Thick-Billed Raven)

Cucumis metuliferus Naud (Wild Cucumber): finished drawing

Cyperus papyrus L. (Papyrus Sedge): finished drawing of inflorescence

Decorative Wall Designs

Discopodium penninervium Hochst. : finished drawing

Elevation of Ruined Temple

Euphorbia helioscopia L. (Sun Spurge): finished drawing of flowering plant with details of flowers and leaf and fruit

Five Men Talking

Gardenia ternifolia Schum.& Thonn. (Jovis-Tonantis): finished drawing with additional detail of fruit

Gardenia ternifolia Schum.& Thonn. (Wild Gardenia): finished drawing

Juniperus procera Endl. (African Pencil Cedar): finished drawing of trees's habit

Kefla Abay, High Priest of the Nile

Lophaetus occipitalis (Long-Crested Eagle)

Man Playing a Harp

Millettia ferruginea (Hochst) Baker: finished drawing

Mimusops kummel A. DC. : finished drawing with some flowers

Musa x sapientum L. (Banana): finished drawing with details of inflorescence

Mussaenda arcuata Lam. ex Poir. : finished drawing without details

Neophron percnopterus (Egyptian Vulture)

No. 3 Minerva Polias and Neptune the King

Noble Arab of the Tribe Beni-Koreish of the Family Harb at Beder-Hunein

Phlomis herba-venti L. : finished drawing

Rhamnus prinoides L'Herit. (African Buckthorn): finished drawing without details and with berries added

St. Agnes (after Deomnichino)

Sterculia africana (Lour.) Fiori: finished drawing of stem with seed pods, some open showing seeds

Temple ruins

Threkiornis aethiopicus (African Sacred Ibis)

Treron waalia (Bruce's Green Pigeon)

Unidentified Fish

Unidentified Fish

Unidentified madogua (Dik-dik)

Unidentified Madoqua (Dik-dik): study of head and skull

Unidentified Madoqua (Dik-dik): study of head and skull

Unidentified Ungulate

Unidentified Ungulate

Woman in a Turban Carrying Lilies

Woodfordia uniflora (A. Rich.) Koehne: finished drawing of flowering shoot

Young Woman of Loheia in Arabia Felix of the Tribe Beni-Koreish

Brucea antidysenterica J. Miller (James Bruce's Tree): finished drawing with stem of fruits added

Wolf

Bee Cuckoo

Commiphora gileadensis (L.) C. Chr. (Balm of Gilead, Opobalsam): finished drawing of fruit, dissected fruits, and leaves

Dik-dik

Felis caligata (Booted Lynx)

Gypaetus barbatus (Bearded Vulture)

Heterohyrax brucei (Yellow-Spotted Rock Hyrax)

Jerboa

Madoqua (Dik-dik)

Sagittarius serpentarius (Secretary Bird)

Vulture

Calotropis procera (Ait.) Ait. f. (Apple of Sodom, Auricular Tree): finished drawing of flowering and fruiting plant

Euphorbia nubica N.E. Br. (Nubian Spurge): finished drawing of flowering and fruiting shoot, with details of floral dissections

Labiatae (indeterminate species): finished drawing of a leafy shoot, without flowers

Lawsonia inermis L. (Henna): finished drawing of a flowering leafy shoot

Pelecanus onocrotalus (Great White Pelican)