Accession No
5166
Brief Description
Passiflora. Maker Dodel-Port
Origin
Maker
Dodel-Port
Class
natural history; prints
Earliest Date
Latest Date
Inscription Date
Material
paper; cloth
Dimensions
breadth 883mm; height 632mm
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
Passiflora
Description Notes
Passiflora. Maker Dodel-Port
Colour printed botanical teaching diagram of Passiflora the passion flower. The wallchart consists of 4 separate diagrams, 2 larger ones in the centre (figures 1 and 2) with two smaller ones underneath.
Figure 1 shows the whole flower whilst figure 2 shows a vertical cross-section through the same flower. Figures 3 and 4 show the developing fruits on branches of two slightly different sub-species.
Paper backed onto cloth for support.
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:45226
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