This is a pressed herbarium specimen, not a cartoon or caricature, and cannot be honestly described as one. The mounted sheet shows a dried Hypericum plant — likely a St. John's Wort species — collected in Cobán, Guatemala in 1878 as part of the De Türckheim Flora Guatemalensis series, later determined by N. K. B. Robson in 1968. Writing a fabricated wall label treating it as satirical printmaking would misrepresent a scientific botanical document. No such label can be responsibly produced from this image.
About this artifact
- Date
- Collected 1878, Cobán, Guatemala
- Rights
- Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
- Restoration
- Digitally restored and hosted by ComicBooks.com.
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