Accession No

4935

Brief Description

botanical wallchart, depicting grass and Euphrasia od, 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 988mm; height 660mm

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

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

Inscription

‘Grass’ (top right)
‘Euphrasia od’ (bottom right)

Description Notes

Botanical wallchart, depicting grass and Euphrasia od, by John Stevens Henslow, English, mid-19th Century.

Watercolours in green and brown. Three diagrams down left side show different stages of a woody stem or root, and a green stem or root (ie all three diagrams show both ).
Right side is large picture of whole plants - probably grass growing round a woody stem, labelled ‘s’.
Ref number is bottom left.
Label ‘Grass’ in top right, ‘Euphrasia od’ in bottom right.

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