Accession No

5710

Brief Description

Botanical wall chart depicting Centaurea cyanus: habit and flower structure.

Origin

Maker

Dodel-Port

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

Latest Date

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 640mm; height 881mm

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)
‘Arnold Dodel-Port ad nat.del. Centaurea Cyanus, L. J.F.SCHREIBER, ESSLINGEN.Ed’ (bottom)

Description Notes

Diagrams depicting Centaurea cyanus: habit and flower structure. There are five diagrams, all printed in colour. They are numbered from ‘Fig.1.’ to ‘Fig.5.’. They all have a scale ratio. Every diagram also has individual structures labelled with letters, although there is no key.
The inscriptions are printed across the bottom and in the top left corner of the chart. Reference numbers are in the top right and bottom right corners.
There is a blank label stuck in the bottom right corner.

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