Accession No

4653

Brief Description

Botanical wallchart, depicting seven stages of development of Ricinus, from seed to plant.

Origin

Cambridge

Maker

Shrubbs, Arthur

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1870

Latest Date

1922

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

height 682mm; breadth 938mm

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

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

Inscription

‘Ricinus’ (hand painted, bottom centre)

Description Notes

Mostly black and white with some shading, though two main images have green watercolour.
Top left: cross section of seed;
Bottom left: external view of seed, with small roots growing over it.
To right of above, running full height of page: well-developed roots, while seed is lifted up by the growth of the shoot, and is about to be shed.
To right and below the above: seed with root, less developed than the last.
Bottom centre: green shoot, with two leaves, just about to lose the remains of the seed.
Main right diagram, full height: full grown green stem, with two mature leaves, and some young leaves in between.
Bottom right: oval shaped seed (?) with emerging tube to right.
Hand painted label ‘Ricinus’ bottom centre.
Ref number in bottom left.

References

Events