‘Disease spots’
Date
1890
Creator
Harry Marshall Ward (1854 - 1906, British) , Biologist
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 278mm
width (painting): 214mm
width (painting): 214mm
Subject
Description
Botanical study of coffee leaf disease Hemileia vastatrix, showing a potted plant exhibiting fungal rust on the underside of the leaves and disease spots, with one leaf detail.
Plate from the manuscript version of the paper ‘The relations between host and parasite in certain epidemic diseases of plants’, by H. Marshall Ward, Proceedings of the Royal Society, vol.47 (1890), pp.322-325. The illustration did not appear in the published paper.
The figure is held in a cover sheet, with the title: The “Disease Spots”. Instructions to the printer appear on the back sheet, in ink: ‘Directions to the engraver – omit the loose leaf to left below - & shade the flower-pot & soil. Reduce to half-size’. Not signed.
Harry Marshall Ward was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1888.
Plate from the manuscript version of the paper ‘The relations between host and parasite in certain epidemic diseases of plants’, by H. Marshall Ward, Proceedings of the Royal Society, vol.47 (1890), pp.322-325. The illustration did not appear in the published paper.
The figure is held in a cover sheet, with the title: The “Disease Spots”. Instructions to the printer appear on the back sheet, in ink: ‘Directions to the engraver – omit the loose leaf to left below - & shade the flower-pot & soil. Reduce to half-size’. Not signed.
Harry Marshall Ward was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1888.
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