Accession No

5012

Brief Description

botanical wallchart depicting cork formation in Sorbus, by L. Kny, German, 1850-1967

Origin

Germany; Berlin

Maker

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

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1850

Latest Date

1967

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

822mm tall; 675mm 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 ad .nat. del.’ (bottom left)
‘Lith. von Laue’ t(bottom right)
‘Sorbus’ (handpainted, bottom centre)
‘ Botanische Wandtafeln
von
L. KNY.
Verlag von Paul Parey in Berlin.
Tafel LVIII.’ (top right)

Description Notes

Two printed line diagrams (numbered 1 and 2), with green chloroplasts and yellow cork growth.
Both diagrams show the same sub-cuticular cells, but the lower one (2) shows that cork has grown between the cells. The layers numbered 1 and 2 on diagram 1 have been separated by two layers of cork cells (labelled 3 and 4).
The layers of tissue are labelled on the right side as ‘P’, then two ‘Phellog.’
Species name is handpainted 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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