Accession No

4641

Brief Description

botanical wallchart, depicting 4 stages of development of the embryo-sac a cellular level, by L. Kny, C. Müller, E. Laue, and Paul Parey, German, c. 1850-1967

Origin

Germany; Berlin

Maker

Kny, L. [artist] Müller, C. [artist] Laue, E. [lithographer] Parey, Paul [publisher]

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1850

Latest Date

1967

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

height 795mm; breadth 665mm

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

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

Inscription

‘L. Kny. et C. Müller ad .nat. del.’ (bottom left)
‘E. Laue lith.’ t(bottom right)
‘Botanische Wandtafeln von L. KNY, Verlag von Paul Parey in Berlin. Tafel LXXXI.’ (top)

Description Notes

Printed line diagrams, black and white, some slight shading.
Diagrams are labelled 1 to 4, and parts are labelled with letters, but there is no key.
Diagram 1 is top right, the others follow anti-clockwise.
Fig 1 shows a mass of cells, one of which differentiates into a long thin cell, with four nuclei (fig 4).
The sequence is continued in accession number 4672 and 4673.
Ref number bottom right.
Slightly frayed round edges, especially on right.

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