Eschscholzia californica Cham. (California Poppy, Herbarium Specimen)

This is not a cartoon or caricature but a pressed-plant herbarium sheet bearing two dried specimens of Eschscholzia californica, the California poppy, mounted on archival paper with a North American Flora label and a color-calibration strip at right. No satirical figures, printmaking tradition, or political target are present. The catalog description referencing Hogarth, Gillray, or comic-strip lineage does not apply to this object. What is shown is a botanical document: two small, root-intact plants with feathery leaves and faded yellow-orange flowers, typical of 19th-century natural-history collecting practice. Honest curation requires naming the thing plainly — this is a scientific specimen record, not graphic satire.