From the exhibition
Orchis latifolia L. var. beeringiana Cham.
· Collected 1861, Hakodate, Japan

This is not a cartoon or caricature. It is a pressed-plant herbarium sheet bearing two dried orchid specimens — *Orchis latifolia* var. *beeringiana* — mounted on buff paper with handwritten collection labels in French and Latin, institutional stamps from the Jardin Impérial de Pétersbourg and the Herbier du Muséum de Paris, and a barcode added by a modern digitization project. Collected in Hokkaido (Hakodate) in 1861, it belongs to the tradition of natural-history specimen documentation, not print satire. No political content, printmaking technique, or caricature tradition is present or applicable here.
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