Accession No

5568


Brief Description

Botanical wallchart, depicting Equisetum maximum: habit strobilus, etc.


Origin


Maker

Dodel-Port


Class

natural history; prints


Earliest Date


Latest Date


Inscription Date


Material

cloth; paper


Dimensions

breadth 632mm; height 865mm


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 & A. Dodel-Port ad nat.del Equisetum Telmateja, Ehrh. J.F. SCHREIBER,ESSLINGEN.Impr.’ (across bottom)


Description Notes

Diagrams depicting Equisetum maximum: habit strobilus, etc. There are six diagrams. They are all printed and in colour. They are numbered from ‘Fig.1.’ to ‘Fig.6.’. Each diagram has a ratio next to it. Three diagrams are also labelled with letters, although there is no key.
The inscription is in the top left corner and across below the diagrams. All the inscriptions and labels are printed.
Reference numbers are in the top right and bottom right corners.


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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