This is a herbarium sheet, not a political cartoon or caricature — it is a pressed botanical specimen of Irish Lady's-tresses (Spiranthes romanzoffiana), a rare orchid native to Ireland and the British Isles. Several dried plants are mounted on archival paper, their spiral flower spikes still legible. Handwritten labels record collection at Lough Neagh, Antrim, by collector N. Carrothers in 1924, with later annotation by A. J. Wilmott (1935). The sheet passed through the herb of F. Rilstone before entering a major British natural history collection. No satirical, caricature, or printmaking content is present. A wall label for a caricature exhibition cannot honestly be written from this image.
About this artifact
- Date
- Collected 1924; mounted specimen
- Rights
- Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
- Restoration
- Digitally restored and hosted by ComicBooks.com.
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