Cordia discolor Cham. (Herbarium Specimen)

This is a pressed and mounted botanical herbarium specimen, not a cartoon or caricature. The sheet displays dried branches of Cordia discolor Cham. (Boraginaceae), collected at approximately 1,500 metres elevation near Genova, Nordspanien, by Dr. Otto Buxbaum. The label records locality, collector, altitude, and taxonomic determination in the 19th-century European scientific tradition. No satirical imagery, printmaking technique, or caricature tradition is present or applicable here. Writing a wall label situating this object within the Hogarth–Gillray–Daumier–Nast lineage would be factually false. This specimen belongs instead to the parallel tradition of Linnaean systematic botany and the great European herbarium collections — a distinct and equally significant documentary practice.