Accession No

5515

Brief Description

botanical wallchart, depicting Pinus Laricio: flowers, by Carolina Dodel-Port, German, 1878

Origin

Germany

Maker

Dodel-Port, Carolina

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1878

Latest Date

1878

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 649mm; height 881mm

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’ (top left)
‘Carolina Dodel-Port ad nat: del. (Mai - Octbr. 1878.) Pinus Laricio var. austriaca (fol.B) J. F. SCHREIBER. ESSLINGEN. IMPR. ‘ (across bottom)

Description Notes

Botanical wallchart, depicting Pinus Laricio: flowers, by Carolina Dodel-Port, German, 1878.

Diagrams depicting Pinus Laricio: flowers. There are seven diagrams, all printed and in colour. They are numbered from Fig.1. to Fig.7.. Each has a ratio next to it. Five of the diagrams are labelled with letters, although there is no key. In the bottom right corner there is a faint ‘E Conrad, lith’.
Inscriptions in the top left corner and across the bottom. All the inscriptions and labels are printed.
Reference number is in the bottom right corner.

References

Events

Description
Swiss husband and wife team Arnold (1843-1908) and Carolina (b. 1856) Dodel-Port created this illustration for their Dodel-Port Atlas, an atlas of botany for school students. Both the Dodel-Ports were botanists (Arnold at the University of Zurich), and 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'.

This wall chart comes from the book Atlas der Botanik, published in 1878, which includes many of the works we see at the Whipple Museum. Though it was a joint publication, some of the works were signed by one person. This work was signed by Carolina Dodel-Port.
03/04/2023
Created by: Guey-Mei Hsu on 03/04/2023

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

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