Accession No

5693

Brief Description

Botanical wall chart depicting Solanaceae: Atropa, etc.

Origin

Maker

Peter

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

Latest Date

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 893mm; height 705mm

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

‘Dr. Peter’s Botanical Plates. Plate No. 22. O. Newmann & Co., 84, Newman Street, London, W.’(across top)
‘Solonaceae.’ (bottom left)
‘ 1 2 3
Atropa Belladonna L.
Deadly Nightshade’ (centre, below diagrams)

Description Notes

Diagrams depicting Solanaceae: Atropa etc. Four diagrams. They are all printed in colour. They are numbered from 1 to 4. The first three depict Atropa Belladonna, as the inscription states. They are also labelled next to the diagrams thus:
‘1 Branch showing a Flowering Axil’
‘2 Flower longitudinally bisected’
‘3 Transverse Section of Berry’
‘4 Hyoscyamus Niger L.
Henbane.
Bursting fruit’.
Each diagram also has a scale fraction next to it.
All inscriptions are printed. They run across the top and below the diagrams.
Reference numbers are in the bottom left and bottom right corners.

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