Accession No

4734

Brief Description

botanical wallchart showing a carboniferous landscape with semi-submerged trees and large ferns, one of the species is Calamites according to the catalogue, by Theod Fischer and K. Haushofer, German, c. 1850-1928

Origin

Germany; Cassel [now Kassel]

Maker

Fischer, Theod [printer and publisher] Haushofer, K. [artist]

Class

natural history; earth sciences; prints

Earliest Date

1850

Latest Date

1928

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 1420mm; height 1040mm

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

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

Inscription

‘Jdeale Landschaft aus der Steinkohlenzeit.’ (top centre)
‘Paleontologische Wandtafeln.’ (bottom left)
‘Druck und Verlag von Theod. Fischer in Cassel’ (bottom centre)
‘K. Haushofer’ (bottom right)

Description Notes

Printed landscape in shades of green-brown-blue, showing large ferns on right, and partially submerged forest on left.
Originally printed in four quarters, and joined to the same backing cloth.
Fragile

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