Cartoons & Caricature
Heliotropium salicioides Cham.
· Collected c. 1842; mounted at the Natural History Museum, London
This is a herbarium specimen sheet, not a cartoon or caricature. Two pressed and tape-mounted specimens of Heliotropium salicioides — a Brazilian heliotrope collected by Jacques Samuel Blanchet (collection nos. 3606 and 3845) — are affixed to archival paper alongside a ruler, a color-calibration chart, and handwritten syntype labels. It belongs to the Natural History Museum's botanical type collection, not to the print-satire tradition descending from Hogarth, Gillray, or Daumier. No wall label for a caricature exhibition can honestly be written from this image.
About this artifact
- Date
- Collected c. 1842; mounted at the Natural History Museum, London
- Rights
- Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
- Restoration
- Digitally restored and hosted by ComicBooks.com.
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