This is a herbarium specimen sheet, not a political cartoon or caricature. It shows pressed, dried branches of Cuphea calophylla (family Lythraceae), a small-leaved flowering shrub native to Paraguay, mounted on archival paper with collection labels from Dr. E. Hassler's Plantae Paraguarienses series. No satirical imagery, printmaking tradition, or caricature is present. Writing a caricature wall label for this object would require wholesale fabrication. The specimen was collected in central and southern Paraguay and formally identified by Shirley A. Graham at Kew. It belongs in a natural history or botanical art context, not a comics or print-satire exhibition.
About this artifact
- Date
- Collected 1897–1899, determined 2001
- Rights
- Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
- Restoration
- Digitally restored and hosted by ComicBooks.com.
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