Cartoons & Caricature
Eriosema grandiflorum (Schltdl. & Cham.) G.Don
· Collected October 1913, Sierra de Tonala, Chiapas, Mexico; collector C.A. Purpus
This is a pressed botanical herbarium specimen, not a cartoon or caricature, and cannot be described as one. The sheet shows dried branches of Eriosema grandiflorum, a leguminous shrub, mounted on archival paper with standard herbarium tape strips. Labels identify it as part of the Plantae Mexicanae Purpusianae series and include a 1967 New York Botanical Garden revision annotation by John W. Grear Jr. A Natural History Museum London barcode confirms institutional accession. No satirical, printmaking, or caricature tradition applies to this object.
About this artifact
- Date
- Collected October 1913, Sierra de Tonala, Chiapas, Mexico; collector C.A. Purpus
- Rights
- Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
- Restoration
- Digitally restored and hosted by ComicBooks.com.
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