This is a pressed herbarium specimen, not a cartoon or caricature. It shows two dried plant stems of Romanzoffia unalaschcensis, a small saxifrage-family herb native to the Aleutian Islands, mounted on archival paper with collection annotations in period script. No satirical content, printmaking technique, or caricature tradition applies here. The label at lower left indicates a Royal Botanic Garden holding. Describing this as political satire would be fabrication. The specimen belongs to the history of natural history illustration and botanical collection, not the Hogarth–Gillray–Nast lineage of print satire from which comics descend.
About this artifact
- Date
- Specimen collected c. 1827
- Rights
- Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
- Restoration
- Digitally restored and hosted by ComicBooks.com.
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