This is a pressed botanical herbarium specimen, not a cartoon or caricature. The sheet displays a dried plant — Stachytarpheta gesnerioides Cham., a verbena-family herb — mounted on archival paper with a color calibration strip, institutional barcode, and a partially legible handwritten collection label. It belongs to the tradition of scientific natural history documentation, not print satire. No wall label for a caricature exhibition can be accurately written for this object. To fabricate satirical content, figures, or printmaking technique for what is plainly a Kew Gardens herbarium sheet would be false. The item should be catalogued under botanical history, not comic art heritage.
About this artifact
- Date
- Collected 1891
- Rights
- Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
- Restoration
- Digitally restored and hosted by ComicBooks.com.
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