Orchis latifolia L. var. beeringiana Cham.

This is a pressed herbarium specimen, not a cartoon or caricature. The sheet displays dried flowering plants of a broad-leaved marsh orchid (*Orchis latifolia*, var. *beeringiana*), mounted on aged rag paper with handwritten and printed locality labels from the Paris natural history museum. No satirical figures, printmaking tradition, or caricature content is present. Writing a political-cartoon wall label for this object would require fabricating a subject, target, and artistic tradition that do not exist in the image. Providing invented satirical context would misrepresent a legitimate scientific artifact. A truthful label can be supplied for its actual identity as a 19th-century botanical voucher specimen.