This is a botanical herbarium specimen, not a political cartoon or caricature. The mounted sheet shows dried branches of Microlicia cordata, a Brazilian shrub in the family Melastomataceae, collected in Brazil by Sello in 1815 and held at the Natural History Museum, London. Handwritten and typed labels identify it as a lectotype — a nomenclatural anchor specimen. No satirical tradition applies here. Displaying this object in a caricature exhibition would misrepresent both the artifact and the history of print satire. A wall label cannot responsibly be written for a context the image does not support.
About this artifact
- Date
- Collected 1815, annotated to 2014
- Rights
- Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
- Restoration
- Digitally restored and hosted by ComicBooks.com.
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