Accession No

4691

Brief Description

Botanical wallchart, four drawing of flowers, to show the maturation of male and female sexual organs in Plantago.

Origin

Cambridge

Maker

Shrubbs, Arthur

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1870

Latest Date

1922

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 1040mm; height 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, and yellow of four views of a flower.
Pictures run in a curve from mid-left across the bottom to mid-right.
Mid-left shows whole flower, though anthers are not ripened.
Bottom left shows cross-section through the flower, revealing anthers curled up inside.
Bottom right shows flower with part of calyx and some petals removed. Two anthers have grown.
Mid right shows flower with part of calyx removed, and four ripe anthers.
No labels.
Ref number bottom right.
Accession number 4690 shows the whole upper part of the plant, and the relative positioning of the flowers.

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