Prunus brasiliensis (Cham. & Schltdl.) D.Dietr.
· Collected 1897–1899; Natural History Museum, London
This is a herbarium sheet, not a political cartoon or caricature. It shows pressed botanical specimens — dried leafy branches with small clustered fruits — collected in Paraguay by Dr. Emil Hassler and identified as Prunus brasiliensis. Three specimen branches are mounted on archival paper alongside handwritten field labels, a color-calibration strip, a metric scale rule, and institutional barcodes from the Natural History Museum, London. The sheet bears Type Collection status. No satirical figures, printmaking technique, or caricature tradition is present or relevant here. Writing a wall label framing this as political satire would be factually false. The object is a primary scientific specimen record, ca. 1897–1899.
About this artifact
- Date
- Collected 1897–1899; 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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