Accession No

5535

Brief Description

botanical wall chart depicting Saccharum officinarum, by C. Bollmann, German

Origin

Germany

Maker

Bollmann, C. [painter] Friedrich Vieweg & Son [publisher]

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

Latest Date

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 486mm; height 697mm

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

‘Auslandische Kulturpflanzen in farbigen Wandtafeln
I.Abteilung Tafel 14.’ (top of chart)
‘Verlag von FRIEDRICH VIEWIG & SOHN, Braunschweig. Herausgegeben von HERMANN ZIPPEL gezeichnet von CARL BOLLMANN. Lith.art.Inst.von C.BOLLMANN,Gera,Reuss j.L.
Echtes Zuckerrohr (Saccharum officinarum L.).
1--4 Vier durch die Farbung des Halms verschiedene Spielarten; 5. Teil der Rispe; 6. einzelnes Aehrchen. 5 und 6 vergrossert.’(below diagrams)

Description Notes

Diagrams depicting Saccharum officinarum. Seven diagrams. All are printed, in colour, on a black background. There is a large diagram in the centre of the chart, which is not numbered. The other diagrams are numbered from 1 to 6, and are round the outside of the chart. The key to these diagrams is in the inscription below the diagrams.
Inscriptions at the top and bottom of the chart.
Reference numbers in the bottom right and top right corners.

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