Accession No
4675
Brief Description
botanical wallchart, depicting flowers, stamens etc of Lilium Martagon L, by J. F. Schreiber and Arnold Dodel-Port, German, 1878
Origin
Germany; Esslingen
Maker
Schreiber, J. F. [printer] Dodel-Port, Arnold [artist]
Class
natural history; prints
Earliest Date
1878
Latest Date
1878
Inscription Date
1878
Material
cloth; paper
Dimensions
breadth 630mm; height 861mm
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. (Juli-August 1878)’ (bottom left)
‘Lilium Martagon, fol:A.’ (bottom centre)
‘J.F. Schreiber. esslingen. Impr.’ (bottom right)
Description Notes
Five diagrams of different parts of Lilium Martagon L. in five colours.
Diagrams are numbered, and have their scales marked.
Fig. 1 runs down the left side, and is a life size represenatation of the upper plant (leaves, flowers, stem).
Fig. 2 is top left is a cross-section through a flower.
Fig. 3. fills top right and centre. It is an attractive 6 times life size painting of the flower with an insect sucking nectar from it.
Fig. 4. is bottom right. It is a cell-detail representation of cylindrical structures releasing small brown grains (pollen release from anthers ?)
Fig. 5. is bottom centre, and shows seven greenish pollen grains, surrounded by brown splashes of something.
Notation in top left ‘Dodel-Port Atlas’.
Inscription runs across the bottom.
Ref number in bottom right.
Folio B for this set is accession number 4674.
Fragile - has already lost paper from the bottom right so that some of fig. 4. is missing. There is a small mark in bottom right, most of which has been lost, but it resembles the corner of the IC monogram for I. Conrad that appears on other Dodel-Port items.
References
Events
Description
Swiss husband and wife team Arnold (1843-1908) and Carolina (b. 1856) Dodel-Port created this illustration for their Dodel-Port Atlas, an atlas of botany for school students. Both the Dodel-Ports were botanists (Arnold at the University of Zurich), and together they made many new discoveries about the plants they were studying. They wrote to Charles Darwin, who said that Carolina’s drawings showed information about plants in a 'wonderfully clear manner'.
This wall chart comes from the book Atlas der Botanik, published in 1878, which includes many of the works we see at the Whipple Museum. Though it was a joint publication, some of the works were signed by one person. This work was signed by Arnold Dodel-Port.
03/04/2023
Created by: Guey-Mei Hsu on 03/04/2023
Description
Swiss husband and wife team Arnold and Carolina Dodel-Port created this illustration for their Dodel-Port Atlas, an atlas of botany for school students. Both botanists (Arnold at the University of Zurich), together they made many new discoveries about the plants they were studying. They wrote to Charles Darwin, who said that Carolina’s drawings showed information about plants in a 'wonderfully clear manner'.
19/08/2021
Created by: Morgan Bell on 19/08/2021
FM:41478
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