Accession No

4934

Brief Description

botanical wallchart, depicting parts of Thesium, including sections of root and stem tips and representations of whole roots and stems, by John Stevens Henslow, English, mid-19th Century

Origin

England; Cambridge

Maker

Henslow, John Stevens

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1827

Latest Date

1861

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 984mm; height 655mm

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

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

Inscription

‘Thesium’ (left centre)

Description Notes

Botanical wallchart, depicting parts of Thesium, including sections of root and stem tips and representations of whole roots and stems, by John Stevens Henslow, English, mid-19th Century.

Watercolours in brown and green. Similar style to accession no. 4924.
Diagram of whole root in top left, with root tip section below.
Diagram of whole stem in top right, with stem section below.
Other bits of stem or root in top centre, labelled ‘T’.
Inscription bottom right.

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