This is a pressed-plant herbarium specimen, not a cartoon or caricature, and cannot be described as one. The sheet displays dried stems of Hypericum anagalloides (tinker's penny, a small creeping St. John's wort) mounted on archival paper, collected at Horse Lake, Vancouver Island by John Macoun for the Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada. A later annotation by N. K. B. Robson dates to 1956. It belongs to the Natural History Museum, London. No satirical, printmaking, or comic-art tradition is present or implied in this object.
About this artifact
- Date
- Collected July 23, 1887
- Rights
- Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
- Restoration
- Digitally restored and hosted by ComicBooks.com.
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