Accession No
5607
Brief Description
Botanical wallchart, depicting Ulothrix zonata: life-history, by Carolina Dodel-Port, Swiss, 1875-1883
Origin
Switzerland
Maker
Dodel-Port, Carolina
Class
natural history; prints
Earliest Date
1875
Latest Date
1883
Inscription Date
Material
cloth; paper
Dimensions
breadth 641mm; height 884mm
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 Dodel-Port.del.ad.nat.&.sec.A.D-P. Ulothrix zonata J.F. SCHREIBER, ESSLINGEN.Impr.’ (across bottom)
Description Notes
Diagrams depicting Ulothrix zonata: life-history. There are eleven diagrams. They are all printed and coloured. They are not numbered, but are labelled by letters, to which there is no key.
Inscriptions are printed in the top left corner and across the bottom.
Reference numbers are in the bottom left, top left and bottom right corners.
The right side of the chart is damaged.
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:45974
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