Accession No

4992

Brief Description

botanical wallchart depicting a fungal infestation of a plant, by L. Kny and W. Zopf, German, 1850-1967

Origin

Germany; Berlin

Maker

Kny, L. [artist] Zopf, W. [artist] Laue [lithographer] Wiegandt, Hempel and Parey [publisher]

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1850

Latest Date

1967

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

675mm tall; 825mm wide

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

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

Inscription

‘L. Kny et W. Zopf ad .nat. del.’ (bottom left)
‘Lith.von Laue’ (bottom right)
‘Botanische Wandtafeln von L. KNY, (Verlag von Wiegandt, Hempel & Parey in Berlin.) Tafel XXI.’ (top right)
‘Peronospora (?) Calotheca’ (MS ink at bottom)

Description Notes

Printed line diagram, black and white, with green chloroplasts.
Six numbered diagrams, though no labels.
1. (top left) fungus is entering a plant cell, and growing more branches inside.
2. (main picture, centre) surface view of plant, with stoma in centre. Fungus is either growing into, or out of, the stoma.
3. (centre right) fungal spore
4. (top right) close-up of the area around the stoma. Two things are labelled ‘a’ and ‘b’.
5. (bottom left) view of fungus, with parts marked ‘Oog.’ and ‘Anth.’
6. (bottom right) a circular object inside a sac.
Top right, to left of printed heading: embossed impression of coat of arms, surmounted with eagle, bearing motto ‘coll. christi cant’
Hand inked species name added at bottom.

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