This is a pressed botanical herbarium specimen, not a political cartoon or caricature. It shows a dried plant of Richardia grandiflora mounted on archival paper, with handwritten annotations identifying the species and a color calibration strip at top. No satirical imagery, printmaking technique, or caricature tradition applies here. Fabricating a wall label connecting this specimen to Hogarth, Gillray, or the print satire lineage would be a curatorial falsehood. The object is a scientific document from the natural history collecting tradition, 1831, housed at a botanical institution. A responsible label would situate it in the history of botanical illustration and Linnaean taxonomy, not comic art history.
About this artifact
- Date
- Collected 1831
- Rights
- Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
- Restoration
- Digitally restored and hosted by ComicBooks.com.
Part of our mission to preserve and restore the public-domain heritage of the medium.