From the exhibition
Richardia grandiflora (Cham. & Schlecht.) Steud.
· Collected 1831

This is a pressed botanical herbarium specimen, not a political cartoon or caricature. It shows a dried plant of *Richardia grandiflora* mounted on archival paper, with handwritten annotations identifying the species and a color calibration strip at top. No satirical imagery, printmaking technique, or caricature tradition applies here. Fabricating a wall label connecting this specimen to Hogarth, Gillray, or the print satire lineage would be a curatorial falsehood. The object is a scientific document from the natural history collecting tradition, 1831, housed at a botanical institution. A responsible label would situate it in the history of botanical illustration and Linnaean taxonomy, not comic art history.
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