Accession No

5396

Brief Description

botanical wallchart depicting Puccinia: aecidia and spermogonia (section), by L. Kny, German

Origin

Germany; Berlin

Maker

Kny, L. [artist] Meyn, W. A. [lithographer] Hempel and Parey [publisher]

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

Latest Date

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 678mm; height 820mm

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

‘Aecidium’ (upside-down, above diagram)
‘Botanische Wandtafeln
von
L. KNY
(Verlag von Wiegandt, Hempel & Parey in Berlin.)
Tafel XXV’ (top left corner)
‘L. Kny. ad.nat.del’ (bottom left)
‘W.A. Meyn lith.’ (bottom right)

Description Notes

Diagram depicting a cross-section of aecidia and spermogonia of Puccinia. Printed and coloured.
Inscriptions printed in the top right, bottom right and bottom left corners.
‘Aecidium’ written above the diagram, upside-down.
Reference number in the bottom right corner.
Two blank labels stuck on.

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