Accession No

5646

Brief Description

botanical wallchart, depicting Adiantum fertile leaf, by John Stevens Henslow, English, 1827-1861

Origin

England; Cambridge

Maker

Henslow, John Stevens

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1827

Latest Date

1861

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 642mm; height 978mm

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

‘Adiantum
Amœnum’ (bottom right)

Description Notes

Diagrams depicting sporangia on a fertile leaf of the fern Adiantum amœnum.
Two diagrams, both drawn, both in colour.
Inscription is stencilled below the diagrams.
No other labels.
Reference numbers are in the top right and bottom right corners. (Previous PS ref. was Q26)
Pencil notation in the bottom left corner records the family as “Polypodiaceae” there is also a pencilled “II”, and the word “Pterideae”.

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