Accession No

4698

Brief Description

botanical wallchart showing a tertiary (oligocene) landscape with wild boar (?) and water lilies, 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 1410mm; height 1032mm

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 aelteren (?) (oligocaenen) Tertiarzeit.’ (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 two wild boar (with very long snouts) standing by a lakeside. Trees grow on land, water-lilies in the water.
Originally printed in four quarters, and joined to the same backing cloth.
Fragile

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