Accession No

4652

Brief Description

botanical wallchart, with three depictions of whole plant Thuja Tartarica, by John Stevens Henslow, English, c. 1827-1861

Origin

England; Cambridge

Maker

Henslow, John Stevens [artist] Crewdson and Company [possibly cloth manufacturer]

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1827

Latest Date

1861

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

height 980mm; breadth 647mm

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

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

Inscription

‘Thuja Tartarica’ (up left side, ie reading from bottom to top)
‘Thuja Tartarica
JS Henslow’ (handwritten, bottom centre)

Description Notes

Waterclours in brown and green of whole plant of Thuja tartarica.
Left is a mature plant, with three leaves.
Right is a middle stage, with two developing leaves.
Centre is growing plant, no leaves, bent over to right.
‘c’ at top, above the middle diagram, between the tops of the other two.
‘R’ towards bottom, between middle and right diagrams.
Title runs up left side.
Handwritten notation in bottom centre gives species name and is signed by Henslow.
Ref number bottom right.
Compare accession numbers 4930 and 4931.
Cloth backing has blue stamped text on left side, in reverse (ie to be read from paper side): ‘CREWDSON & Co’s manufacture [circular shield, with ‘crewdson & co. manchester’ aroud it], THE CREWDSON CRYSTAL R10’ This starts to repeat again below.

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