Accession No

5017

Brief Description

botanical wallchart, insect feeding at the flower of Salvia, by J. F. Schreiber, Arnold Dodel-Port, and I. Conrad, German, late 19th Century

Origin

Germany; Esslingen

Maker

Schreiber, J. F. [printer] Dodel-Port, Arnold [artist] Conrad, I. [lithographer]

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1860

Latest Date

1890

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

885mm tall; 640mm wide

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

Transferred from the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, in 06/2008. On loan from the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, from 01/1994.

Inscription

‘Arnold Dodel-Port ad nat. del.’ (bottom left)
‘Salvia’ (bottom centre)
‘J.F. Schreiber. esslingen. Impr.’ (bottom right)
‘I. Conrad lith.’ (bottom right, handwriting, with ‘I’ superimposed on ‘C’)

Description Notes

Five diagrams of flower parts of Salvia, in colour.
Diagrams are numbered, have lettered labels, and have their scales marked.
Main picture, ocupying most of chart (left) is figure 1, a black insect feeding at the flower.
Fig 2 is bottom right, a cross-section through the flower.
Fig 3 is top left, a view of the flower from outside.
Fig 4 is top right, detail of the anther.
Fig 5 is top right, detail of the stigma (?).
Notation in top left ‘Dodel-Port Atlas’.
Inscription runs across the bottom.

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