Accession No
5526
Brief Description
botanical wallchart, depicting Taxus baccata: branches and seed, by Carolina Dodel-Port
Origin
Maker
Dodel-Port, Carolina
Class
natural history; prints
Earliest Date
Latest Date
Inscription Date
Material
cloth; paper
Dimensions
breadth 644mm; height 876mm
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)
‘Carolina Dodel-Port sec.Dr.W.Kellermann & ad nat; del. Taxus baccata L. J.F.SCHREIBER, ESSLINGEN’ (bottom)
Description Notes
Botanical wallchart, depicting Taxus baccata: branches and seed, by Dodel-Port.
Diagrams depicting Taxus baccata: branches and seed. Seven figures, numbered. Diagrams are printed and in colour. Labelled by letters, no key.
Inscription in the top right and across the bottom.
Reference numbers in the top and bottom right, the bottom one on a stuck on label.
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:45893
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