Accession No

4676

Brief Description

botanical wallchart depicting parts of Datura Stramonium, English, early 19th Century to late 20th Century

Origin

Cambridge

Maker

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1800

Latest Date

1967

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 952mm; height 650mm

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

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

Inscription

‘Datura Stramonium’ (across bottom)

Description Notes

Watercolours in green and brown.
Left side is filled with cross-section of an approx. oval shape on a stalk, which has small yellow spheres growing out of it round the edges.
Right side shows one of these yellow balls and its stalk, surrounded by green cells or tissues.

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