Accession No
5119
Brief Description
botanical teaching diagram depicting endocarpon pusillum: thallus and ascocarps, by Dodel-Port
Origin
Maker
Dodel-Port
Class
natural history; prints
Earliest Date
Latest Date
Inscription Date
Material
cloth; paper
Dimensions
breadth 882mm; height 644mm
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
Dodel - Port, Atlas
Endocarpon pusillum, Hedw.
Description Notes
Endocarpon pusillum: thallus and ascocarps. Maker Dodel-Port
Colour hand painted botanical teaching diagram of Endocarpon, a Lichen, consisiting of eleven diagrams.
Diagrams are annotated with letters and numbers, possibly showing the anatomical structure of the Lichen.
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
FM:44012
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