Drawing, Botanical Sketches

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Drawing, Botanical Sketches

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated 1857 and we acquired it in 1917. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Gift of Louis P. Church.

An anatomical model of a Ricinus Communis comonly known as a a castor bean or castor oil plant.Three prickly forked magenta extensions rise out of a greenish brown bulb with upward curved spines. Folded browish green leaves hang underneath with a thick green stem. It is glued to a vertical rod which is mounted on a stepped base with an affixed paper label.

Model, Ricinus Communis, 1875–1898
wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers,....
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
22.2018.1

An light green internal anatomical model view of a Ficus Carica, fig tree, glued to a vertical rod mounted on a black stepped base with an affixed paper label. The inside of the fig has light brown seeds grouped around the triangle shaped bed and light green flesh. The second rod holds a long white stem with a brown polinating seed.

Model, Ficus Carica, 1875–1898
wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers,....
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
22.2018.3

An anatomical model of a white Sambucus Nigra, a Europena elderberry. Five white petals surround five long white stamens branching away from the tan interior bud with a curved light green stem. It is glued to a vertical rod mounted on a stepped base with affixed paper label

Model, Sambucus Nigra, 1875–1898
wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers,....
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
22.2018.6

Cite this object as

Drawing, Botanical Sketches; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-836-b

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2BhST/
Accession Number 1917-4-836-b
Object ID 18202191