Pteris pulchra Schltdl. & Cham. (Herbarium Specimen, Natural History Museum)

This is not a cartoon or caricature. The image shows a pressed herbarium specimen of the fern *Pteris pulchra*, mounted on archival paper with handwritten annotations, a color-calibration chart, and scale rulers — standard Natural History Museum documentation. The label identifies it as a possible isotype from Mexico, from the Herbarium of John Smith, Curator of Kew Gardens 1842–1862. No satirical tradition, printmaking technique, or caricature subject is present or can be responsibly invented here. Displaying this specimen as a political cartoon would misrepresent both the object and the history of print satire it has no connection to.