Accession No

4692

Brief Description

Botanical wallchart, two drawings of Lychnis flowers, showing them at their mature female, and mature male stages.

Origin

Cambridge

Maker

Shrubbs, Arthur

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1870

Latest Date

1922

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 976mm; height 690mm

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 blue of four views of a flower.
Left diagram shows pink flower with five blue anthers.
Right diagram shows similar flower, but no anthers, and five feathery stigmas.
No labels.
Ref number bottom left.
Good condition.

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