Accession No
5524
Brief Description
botanical wallchart, depicting Cycas circinalis: habit and carpels with seeds, by Arnold Dodel-Port
Origin
Maker
Dodel-Port, Arnold
Class
natural history; prints
Earliest Date
Latest Date
Inscription Date
Material
cloth; paper
Dimensions
breadth 641mm; height 888mm
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)
‘Arnold Dodel-Port pinx. Cycas circinalis L.8c C. revoluta thunb ;(fig.4). J.F. SCHREIBER. ESSLINGEN.Impr.’ (across bottom)
Description Notes
Botanical wallchart, depicting Cycas circinalis: habit and carpels with seeds, by Dodel-Port.
Diagram depicting Cycas circinales. Four diagrams, all printed in colour. They are labelled Fig. 1 to 4. Diagrams are labelled, although there is no key.
Inscription in the top left corner and across the bottom.
Reference numbers in the top right and bottom right.
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:45891
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