Accession No

4748

Brief Description

botanical wallchart showing leaf movement in Mimosa pudica (the sensitive plant), by H. Klitzing, L. Kny and G. Haberlandt, German, mid-19th Century to mid-20th Century

Origin

Germany; Berlin

Maker

Parey, Paul [publisher] Klitzing, H. [artist] Kny, L [artist] Haberlandt, G. [original artist] Hollerbaum and Schmidt [lithographers and printers]

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1850

Latest Date

1967

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 1050mm; height 1445mm

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

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

Inscription

‘Mimosa pudica L.’ (bottom centre)
‘H. KLITZING et L. KNY ad nat. et sec G. HABERLANDT del.’ (bottom left)
‘Lith.u.Druck HOLLERBAUM & SCHMIDT Berlin N 65’ (bottom right)
‘BOTANISCHE WANDTAFELN VON L. KNY. ’ (top left)
‘Verlag von Paul Parey in Berlin. Tafel CII.’ (top right)

Description Notes

Eight diagrams of the leaves of Mimosa. They are numbered but not labelled.
1 and 2 occupy top centre, and centre, and are pictures of the green part of the plant, showing the leaves open, and folded in.
3 is centre right, a cell level cross-section through a stem (?).
4-7 are round the edges, and are various black line drawings of cell details.
Inscriptions run across top and bottom.
The chart is made of two separate papers, stuck onto a common cloth backing.

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