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Gaylussacia densa Cham. (Herbarium Specimen)
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Gaylussacia densa Cham. (Herbarium Specimen)

· Collected 1841, Natural History Museum, London

This is not a cartoon or caricature. It is a pressed botanical herbarium specimen — a dried branch of Gaylussacia densa Cham. (a huckleberry, family Ericaceae) — mounted on archival paper with handwritten collection notes reading "Summit of the Organ Mountains, Brazil, 1841," a color calibration chart, a metric scale bar, and successive taxonomic determination labels from 1953 and 1966. No satirical content, printmaking tradition, or caricature is present. Describing it as political satire would be factually false. A curator's honest label: this specimen documents nineteenth-century Austro-Brazilian botanical exploration and the Natural History Museum's ongoing practice of systematic re-determination across generations of taxonomists.

About this artifact

Date
Collected 1841, 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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