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Campanula lasiocarpa Cham. — Herbarium Specimen
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Campanula lasiocarpa Cham. — Herbarium Specimen

· Collected 1829; ex Herb. Ad. Brongniart

This is not a cartoon or caricature but a pressed botanical specimen — Campanula lasiocarpa Cham., the alpine harebell, mounted on herbarium paper. The plant, collected in 1829 and formerly held in Adolphe Brongniart's herbarium, now carries a Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris accession label. No satirical image is present. The object belongs to the tradition of natural-history illustration and specimen-keeping, not to the Hogarth–Gillray–Daumier lineage of print satire from which comics descend. Describing it as a political cartoon would be factually false, and no honest wall label can be written on that premise for this image.

About this artifact

Date
Collected 1829; ex Herb. Ad. Brongniart
Rights
Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
Restoration
Digitally restored and hosted by ComicBooks.com.

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