Accession No

4920

Brief Description

Botanical wallchart showing views of Lathraea., attachment to host.

Origin

Cambridge

Maker

Ward, H. Marshall

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1890

Latest Date

1906

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

height 1336mm; breadth 1010mm

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)
‘Lathraea’ (hand painted at bottom right)

Description Notes

Watercolours in yellow and salmon
Three diagrams.
Top shows yellow stem with pink tendril (and nodules) wrapping round it.
Middle shows cell-detail cross-section of a pink bulge either growing out of, or growing into a yellow stem.
Bottom shows pink bulge attached to yellow tissue, with pink stem growing out of it, with another pink bulge further along.
Title at bottom right. No other labels.
Presentation sticker at bottom left.
Fair condition

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