This is a pressed herbarium specimen, not a cartoon or caricature. The image shows a dried botanical plant mounted on archival paper, bearing an institutional barcode label and a Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew stamp dated 1854. The specimen displays large, crinkled leaves, slender flowering stems with compound umbels, and a separate woody stem fragment. A handwritten annotation identifies the species. No satirical, printmaking, or caricature tradition applies here. This object belongs to the history of scientific natural history collections, not graphic satire. A wall label for a comic art exhibition cannot responsibly be written for this image.
About this artifact
- Date
- Collected c. 1830
- Rights
- Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
- Restoration
- Digitally restored and hosted by ComicBooks.com.
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