Accession No

4659

Brief Description

botanical wallchart, showing germination and seedlings of pea, by John Stevens Henslow, English, 1827-1861

Origin

England; Cambridge

Maker

Henslow, John Stevens

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1827

Latest Date

1861

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

height 990mm; breadth 647mm

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

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

Inscription

‘Pea’ (bottom left)
‘Germination of Garden Pea No 2
J S Henslow’ (handwritten, below ‘Pea’)

Description Notes

Watercolours in green.
Left shows pea with root growing down, and shoot growing up.
Right shows the development of the shoot, with small leaves appearing.
Stencilled title at bottom, inscription by Henslow below.
Fragile - some tears are about to develop.

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