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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