Eschscholzia californica Cham.

This is not a cartoon or caricature. The sheet is a herbarium specimen record from a British natural history collection, bearing handwritten annotations identifying *Eschscholzia californica* (California poppy), a collector's note referencing "Kirton," the date 1895, and the name "Peacock." The physical plant material has left a faint blue-gray impression on the paper — a ghost of pressed botanical matter. No satirical tradition applies here. This object belongs to the parallel history of scientific illustration and specimen documentation, not to Hogarth, Gillray, or Daumier. Cataloging it as caricature would misrepresent both the object and the tradition. The record stands on its own terms: a dried-flower archive entry, catalog number 65A.