Accession No

4658

Brief Description

Botanical wallchart, with line drawings of seeds and seedlings of Acer .

Origin

Cambridge

Maker

Shrubbs, Arthur

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1870

Latest Date

1922

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

height 940mm; breadth 685mm

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

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

Inscription

‘Acer’ (hand painted at bottom)

Description Notes

Unlabelled hand drawn line diagrams of parts of Acer.
The chart shows seven stages in the maturation of Acer, starting top right with a sycamore wing; two top centre diagrams are cross-scetions through the seed, which is just starting to germinate in the left one; top left, the seed has been discarded, and the young plant has a small root, and two immature leaves.
Most of the chart is taken up by three representations of the more mature plant.
Left is the young plant, with barely developed leaves, an intermediate stage is in centre, while right has well-developed roots, and fully-grown leaves.
Title ‘Acer’ bottom centre.
Ref number bottom right.

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