Cartoons & Caricature
Eryngium pristis Cham. & Schltdl.
· Collected c. 1833; mounted specimen, Natural History Museum, London
This is a herbarium sheet, not a cartoon or caricature. It shows a pressed and dried specimen of Eryngium pristis, a spiny South American sea-holly, collected in the Montevideo region and identified as type material by Chamisso and Schlechtendal. No satire, printmaking tradition, or caricature history applies here. Fabricating a wall label framing this botanical specimen as a political cartoon would be factually false and inappropriate for any public exhibition context. The image belongs in a natural history or history-of-science display, not a comic-art lineage exhibition.
About this artifact
- Date
- Collected c. 1833; mounted specimen, 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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