Accession No

5007

Brief Description

botanical wallchart depicting a transverse section through wood in Quercus, by L. Kny and C. Müller, German, 1850-1967

Origin

Germany; Berlin

Maker

Kny, L. [artist] Müller, C. [artist] Laue, E. [lithographer] Parey, Paul [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 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

‘L. Kny et C. Müller ad .nat. del.’ (bottom left)
‘Lith. von Laue’ t(bottom right)
‘Quercus’ (handpainted, bottom centre)
‘Transverse ******** Quercus cuticle (?)’ (MS pencil, very faded, bottom centre)
‘ Botanische Wandtafeln
von
L. KNY.
Verlag von Paul Parey in Berlin.
Tafel LXXIV.’ (top right)

Description Notes

Printed line diagram showing cellular detail in a cross-section through the wood of an oak tree.
Tissues and some features are marked and labelled with German abbreviations.
MS pencil labels in English have been added later: medullary ray, fibre, living parenchyma across the bottom, and tracheid and vessel at right.
Species name is hand painted at the bottom.
Top right, to left of printed heading: embossed impression of coat of arms, surmounted with eagle, bearing motto ‘coll. christi cant’
Fair condition.

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