From the exhibition
Aeschynomene elegans Schltdl. & Cham.
· Collected Mexico, 1829–1830

This is a herbarium specimen sheet, not a cartoon or caricature. It shows a pressed, dried branch of *Aeschynomene elegans*, a leguminous shrub collected in Mexico by Schiede and Deppe during their 1829–1830 botanical expedition. The sheet carries manuscript labels, a printed determination by Velva E. Rudd of the U.S. National Museum, and a Natural History Museum (London) barcode. A color-calibration chart and ruled scale occupy the lower right. There is no satirical content, no printmaking tradition to discuss, and no caricature present. Writing a comic-art wall label for this object would require fabricating content the image does not support.
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