Accession No

4926

Brief Description

botanical wallchart, depicting section through Cuscuta glomerata, Choisy, with smaller inset diagrams of flower and sexual organs, 6 colours, by J. E. Schreiber, Carolina Dodel-Port, and Arnold Dodel-Port, German, late 19th Century

Origin

Germany; Esslingen

Maker

Schreiber, J. E. [printer] Dodel-Port, Carolina [artist] Dodel-Port, Arnold [artist]

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1860

Latest Date

1890

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 643mm; height 887mm

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

Transferred from the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Inscription

‘Arn: & Carol: Dodel-Port ad nat del. Cuscuta glomerata, Choisy. J.E. Schreiber, esslingen, Impr.’ (below diagram)

Description Notes

Botanical wallchart, depicting section through Cuscuta glomerata, Choisy, with smaller inset diagrams of flower and sexual organs, 6 colours, by J. E. Schreiber, Carolina Dodel-Port, and Arnold Dodel-Port, German, late 19th Century.

Main diagram shows cross-section through stem of Cuscuta glomerata (6.3:1), with letters identifying parts (though no key is given). Represenations of the whole plant (1:1 and 5:1) run up left and right sides. Below are four close-ups of the flower, the developing fruit, and the sexual organs (17:1), again with identifying letters (no key). All diagrams are colour.
Notation in top left "Dodel-Port Atlas".
Inscription runs across the bottom.
Ref number in bottom right.
Framed.

References

Events

Description
Swiss husband and wife team Arnold (1843-1908) and Carolina (b. 1856) Dodel-Port created this illustration for their Dodel-Port Atlas, an atlas of botany for school students. Both the Dodel-Ports were botanists (Arnold at the University of Zurich), and together they made many new discoveries about the plants they were studying. They wrote to Charles Darwin, who said that Carolina’s drawings showed information about plants in a 'wonderfully clear manner'.

This wall chart comes from the book Atlas der Botanik, published in 1878, which includes many of the works we see at the Whipple Museum. Though it was a joint publication, some of the works were signed by one person. This work was signed by Carolina Dodel-Port.
03/04/2023
Created by: Guey-Mei Hsu on 03/04/2023

Description
This print by Carolina Dodel-Port comes from the botanical atlas that she created with her husband Arnold. The wives of botanists often illustrated their husbands' books, but this atlas is unusual in crediting both authors equally. Carolina had already established a reputation as a scholar before her marriage, leading the Dodel-Ports to combine their surnames when they wed. Charles Darwin wrote to the couple that their atlas would be "most useful to all who have to teach botany".
30/03/2023
Created by: Guey-Mei Hsu on 30/03/2023

Description
Swiss husband and wife team Arnold and Carolina Dodel-Port created this illustration for their Dodel-Port Atlas, an atlas of botany for school students. Both botanists (Arnold at the University of Zurich), together they made many new discoveries about the plants they were studying. They wrote to Charles Darwin, who said that Carolina’s drawings showed information about plants in a 'wonderfully clear manner'.

19/08/2021
Created by: Morgan Bell on 19/08/2021

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