This is a pressed botanical herbarium specimen, not a cartoon or caricature. It shows a dried example of Hypericum anagalloides (tinker's penny, a small St. John's wort) mounted on archival paper, collected in 1891 by Geo. Hansen from sites in Amador and Alpine Counties, California, at elevations ranging from 2,000 to 8,500 feet, as part of a Flora of the Sequoia Region survey. No satirical content, printmaking tradition, or caricature is present. A wall label framing this as political satire would misrepresent the object entirely. The item belongs to the history of scientific botanical illustration and field collection, not comic art lineage.
About this artifact
- Date
- Collected 1891
- Rights
- Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
- Restoration
- Digitally restored and hosted by ComicBooks.com.
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