Accession No

4685

Brief Description

botanical wallchart, depicting eight stages in the cellular development of a plant organ, by L. Kny, W. A. Meyn, and Wiegandt, Hempel and Parey, German, c. 1850 - 1967

Origin

Germany; Berlin

Maker

Kny, L. [artist] Meyn, W. A. [lithographer] Wiegandt, Hempel and Parey [publisher]

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1850

Latest Date

1967

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

height 796mm; breadth 675mm

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

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

Inscription

‘L. Kny ad .nat. del.’ (bottom left)
‘W.A. Meyn lith.’ t(bottom right)
‘Botanische Wandtafeln von L. KNY, (Verlag von Wiegandt, Hempel & Parey in Berlin.) Tafel X.’ (top right)
‘TOP’ (handwritten upside down at bottom)

Description Notes

Printed line diagrams, black and white, cell-level detail.
Eight diagrams of cells. Main picture is right, shows approx. heart shaped structure attached to a stalk. Some parts are labelled with letters, though there is no key.
Figures 1-7 are of a sphere on the end of a stalk, as the sphere cells divide and grow.
Ref number bottom left.
Worn, but otherwise fair condition.

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