Accession No

5695

Brief Description

Botanical wall chart depicting Boraginaceae: flowers of Anchusa, etc.

Origin

Maker

Peter

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

Latest Date

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 893mm; height 707mm

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. 25. O. Newmann & Co., 84, Newman Street, London, W.’ (top)
‘Borraginaceae.’ (bottom left)

Description Notes

Diagrams depicting Boraginaceae: flowers of Anchusa, etc. Four diagrams, all printed and in colour. They are numbered and labelled so:
‘ 1 2
Borrago officinalis L.
Common Borage.
1 Flower
2 Inner part of flower’
‘3
Anchusa officinalis L.
Common Ackanet.
Upper part of a flower spike’
‘4
Cynoglossum
officinale L.
Hounds-tongue
A carpel’.
Each diagram also has a scale ratio next to it. All labels and inscriptions are printed. The inscriptions run across the top and in the bottom left corner of the chart.
Reference numbers are in both bottom corners.

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