Sabicea grisea Cham. & Schltdl.
· Collected 1838; mounted specimen, Natural History Museum, London
This is a herbarium sheet, not a political cartoon or caricature. It shows a pressed and dried botanical specimen — branching stem, ovate leaves with visible venation, and clustered seed heads — collected in Brazil in 1838 and attributed to collector George Gardner ("Herb. Gardneri"). Annotations identify it as Sabicea cinerea Aubl. with a later determination of Sabicea grisea Cham. & Schltdl. A color calibration chart and metric scale appear at lower left and right. The Natural History Museum barcode and label confirm institutional provenance. No satirical, caricature, or printmaking tradition is represented here. Fabricating such a context for a scientific specimen would be a disservice to both botany and the history of graphic satire.
About this artifact
- Date
- Collected 1838; mounted specimen, 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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