Accession No

4667

Brief Description

botanical wallchart, depicting different stages of development in Mucor Mucedo, by J. F. Schreiber, Carolina Dodel-Port, I. Conrad, and O. Brefeld, German, c. 1860-1890

Origin

Germany; Esslingen

Maker

Schreiber, J. F. [printer] Dodel-Port, Carolina [artist] Conrad, I. [lithographer] Brefeld, O. [original artist]

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1860

Latest Date

1890

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 645mm; height 881mm

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

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

Inscription

‘Carolina Dodel-Port del. sec. O. Brefeld’ (bottom left)
‘Mucor Mucedo’ (bottom centre)
‘J.F. Schreiber. esslingen. Impr.’ (bottom right)
‘I. Conrad lith.’ (bottom right, handwriting, with ‘I’ superimposed on ‘C’)

Description Notes

Six diagrams of different parts of Mucor Mucedo.
Fig. 1 occupies most of centre: the fungal mat, at 150:1 (looks like lots of roots).
Fig. 2 is top left, cross-section through fruiting body, showing spores (1800:1)
Fig. 3 is top right is cross-section through fruiting body, with spores (1000:1)
Fig. 4 is middle left, shows central part of fruiting body, with only a few spores (1800:1)
Fig. 5 is bottom left, shows budding of a cell, with small daughter to lower left (6600:1).
Fig. 6 is across bottom, shows five cells in a row (6600:1)
Notation in top left ‘Dodel-Port Atlas’.
Inscription runs across the bottom.
Ref number in bottom right.

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