Accession No

4732

Brief Description

botanical wallchart showing a cretaceous landscape with fir trees and dinosaur, 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 1444mm; height 1100mm

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

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

Inscription

‘Ideale Landschaft aus der Kreidezeit.’ (top centre)
‘Paleontologische Wandtafeln. Taf. XL’ (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, showing a dinosaur (carnivorous) standing by a lakeside, amid an ancient forest.
Originally printed in four quarters, and joined to the same backing cloth.
Fragile

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