Accession No
4930
Brief Description
botanical wall chart, depicting forms of root vegetables (carrot, turnip, and possibly radish), colour drawings of whole vegetables, by John Stevens Henslow, English, 1850 (c)
Origin
England; Cambridge
Maker
Henslow, John Stevens
Class
natural history; prints
Earliest Date
1827
Latest Date
1861
Inscription Date
Material
cloth; paper
Dimensions
height 833mm; breadth 486mm
Special Collection
Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences
Provenance
Transferred from the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.
Inscription
‘Conical’
‘Napiform’
‘Fusiform’ (below diagram)
Description Notes
Botanical wall chart, depicting forms of root vegetables (carrot, turnip, and possibly radish), colour drawings of whole vegetables, by John Stevens Henslow, English, 1850 (c).
Watercolours of whole vegetables. Turnip in centre, flanked by carrot on left, and radish on right.
Underneath the words "Conical", "Napiform", and "Fusiform" appear one below the other.
No maker's name.
Ref number in bottom right.
Similar drawing and text style to diagrams signed by Henslow (accession 4931, and 4652). For maker attribution, see also the catalogue of diagrams.
References
Events
Description
Botanical teaching diagram depicting root vegetables, including a carrot, a turnip, and a raddish.
John Stevens Henslow (1796-1861) and his son George (1835-1925) were both British botanists, and were educated at the University of Cambridge. Though he modestly claimed to know "very little" about botany, John Henslow transformed the subject at the University of Cambridge and redesigned the old botanical garden, which opened to the public in 1846. With his son, the Henslows illustrated over 100 colourful botanical wall charts for teaching and studying. These valuable collections are now at the Whipple Museum.
03/04/2023
Created by: Guey-Mei Hsu on 03/04/2023
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