Accession No

5424

Brief Description

botanical wallchart depicting Penicillium ascocarp (aka penicillin fruiting body), by L. Kny and W. Zopf, German

Origin

Germany; Berlin

Maker

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

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

Latest Date

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 677mm; height 831mm

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 Wiegandt, Hempel & Parey in Berlin.)
Tafel XXXV’ (top right)
‘W. Zopf sec.O. Brefeld del. Penicillium. W.A.Meyn lith.’ (below diagrams)

Description Notes

Botanical wallchart, depicting Penicillium ascocarp (aka penicillin fruiting body), German.

Nine diagrams, all printed. Six have some colour. Diagrams are numbered. One has individual structures labelled by letters, although there is no key. One diagram is large, the other eight are smaller and are in the corners of the chart.
Inscriptions are in the top right corner, and running across the bottom. ‘Penicillium.’ is written, the rest is printed.
Pencil notation in the top right.
Reference numbers in the top right and bottom right.
Blank label in the bottom left.

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