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


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