Accession No

5098

Brief Description

Botanical wallchart of leaves external morphology. Drosera rotundifolia: tentacles and insects. Maker Dodel-Port.

Origin

Maker

Dodel-Port

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

Latest Date

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 910mm; height 660mm

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

Drosera rotundi folia

Description Notes

Botanical wallchart of leaves external morphology. Drosera rotundifolia: tentacles and insects. Maker Dodel-Port.

Colour painted botanical teaching diagram of drosera rotundia, sundew, a carnivourous plant. The diagram depicts the the external morphology of this plant in 3 figures. Figure 1 is the central colour diagram whilst figure 2 shows the plant capturing an insect and figure 3 entrapping the insect to begin digestion.

Paper backed onto cloth.

Good condition.

References

Events

Description
Swiss husband and wife team Arnold and Carolina Dodel-Port created this illustration for their Dodel-Port Atlas, an atlas of botany for school students. Both botanists (Arnold at the University of Zurich), together they made many new discoveries about the plants they were studying. They wrote to Charles Darwin, who said that Carolina’s drawings showed information about plants in a 'wonderfully clear manner'.
19/08/2021
Created by: Morgan Bell on 19/08/2021

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