Accession No

4923

Brief Description

Botanical wallchart showing cell-detail cross-section of host and parasite in Viscum album.

Origin

Cambridge

Maker

Ward, H. Marshall

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1890

Latest Date

1906

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

height 1015mm; breadth 1310mm

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

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

Inscription

‘BOTANY SCHOOL, CAMBRIDGE

Drawn by H. Marshall Ward (Professor of
Botany 1895-1906) and presented to the
Botany School by Mrs Marshall Ward.’ (on label, bottom left)
‘TOP’ (handwritten in pencil, at top)

Description Notes

Watercolour in greens and browns.
Shows cross-section of thick woody trunk at bottom, with a green stem (branching into five stems) growing either out of it, or into it.
Presentation sticker at bottom right.
Ref number bottom left.
Fair condition

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