Accession No

4671

Brief Description

botanical wallchart, depicting stamens and pollen in Lavatera trimestris, by J. F. Schreiber and Arnold Dodel-Port, German, late 19th Century

Origin

Germany; Esslingen

Maker

Schreiber, J. F. [printer] Dodel-Port, Arnold [artist]

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1860

Latest Date

1890

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 652mm; height 875mm

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

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

Inscription

‘Arnold Dodel-Port ad nat. del.’ (bottom left)
‘Lavatera trimestris, Fol.A.’ (bottom centre)
‘J.F. Schreiber. esslingen. Edit.’ (bottom right)
‘I. Conrad lith.’ (bottom right, handwriting, with ‘I’ superimposed on ‘C’)

Description Notes

Eight diagrams of different parts of Lavatera trimestris.
Diagrams are numbered, have lettered labels, and have their scales marked.
Fig. 1 is in top left. Is three parts, a-c.
1a. is the whole upper plant, with flowers and leaves.
1b. is a flower (pink)
1c. is a flower bud (green).
Fig 2. is top left . Two green ‘spikes’ curve up almost meeting at top, with nodules growing out of them.
Figs 3 through to 8 are all of cells. They seem to show the process of egg and pollen development, and the subsequent fertilisation and cell division. The series runs from top right down to bottom left.
Notation in top left ‘Dodel-Port Atlas’.
Inscription runs across the bottom.
Ref number in bottom right.
There should be a folio B somewhere.
Fragile.

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