Accession No

5420

Brief Description

botanical wallchart depicting Claviceps: germination of sclerotium, by L. Kny and W. Zopf, German

Origin

Germany; Berlin

Maker

Kny, L. [artist] Zopf, W. [artist] Meyn, W. A. [lithographer] Parey, Paul [publisher]

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

Latest Date

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 678mm; height 825mm

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

‘Botanische Wandtafeln
von
L. Kny.
Verlag von Paul Parey in Berlin
Tafel XLIII’ (top right corner)
‘W. Zopf ad nat.del. Claviceps W.A.Meyn lith.’ (across bottom)

Description Notes

Diagrams depicting germination of sclerotium of Claviceps. Three diagrams, all printed and fully coloured. Diagrams are numbered. There is no key.
Inscriptions in the top right and across the bottom. ‘Claviceps’ is wrtten in the centre below the diagrams.
Reference number in the bottom and top right corners.
Pencil notation in the top right quarter.

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