Accession No

4690

Brief Description

botanical wallchart, drawing of a multi-flowered wind-pollinated flower, showing anthers and stigma, showing dichogamy in Plantago, according to catalogue, tentatively attributed to Arthur Shrubbs, English, c. 1870-1922

Origin

England; Cambridge

Maker

Shrubbs, Arthur [tentative attribution]

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1870

Latest Date

1922

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

height 1037mm; breadth 687mm

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

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

Inscription

Description Notes

Watercolour (?) in pink, green, blue and yellow of a tall flower with lots of individual pink flowers close together. Pink feathery stigmas hang out of the flowers, as do yellow anthers on the end of long blue filaments.
No labels.
Accession number 4691 shows the flowers in more detail.

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