Accession No

4933

Brief Description

botanical wallchart, depicting roots or tubers of Palmate and Ovate varieties, 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

height 900mm; breadth 670mm

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

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

Inscription

‘Palmate’ (centre)
‘Ovate’ (bottom centre)
‘orchis’ (bottom right)
‘Orchis furca’ (handwritten, bottom right)

Description Notes

Botanical wallchart, depicting roots or tubers of Palmate and Ovate varieties, by John Stevens Henslow, English, mid-19th Century.

Watercolours in brown and green. Two large pictures of the whole roots/tubers of plamate and ovate varieties, labelled ‘Palmate’ and ‘Ovate’ below the relevant picture. Palmate is above Ovate, though it appears to have been stuck on, either over the upper part of the ovate diagram, or on to the same cloth backing as it.
The ovate diagram is also labelled 'orchis' in bottom right, beneath which, in handwriting, is 'orchis furca'.
Ref number in bottom right.

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