Theobroma cacao
Theobroma cacao
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- Description
- Robert Brendel began in business in Breslau in 1866, making lovely and accurate models of enlarged flowers, and winning medals at major exhibitions: Moscow (1872), Cologne (1890), and Chicago (1893). Following Brendel’s death in 1898, his son Reinhold moved the firm to a suburb of Berlin and won several more exhibition medals.
- Ref: Graziana Fiorini, Luana Maekawa, and Peter Stiberc, “Save the Plants: Conservation of Brendel Anatomical Botany Models,” The Book and Paper Group Annual 27 (2008): 35-45
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Botanical Model
- model, botanical, theobroma cacao
- date made
- ca 1900
- maker
- Brendel
- place made
- Germany
- Physical Description
- papier mache (overall material)
- plaster (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- wax (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 20 in x 8 in x 8 5/8 in; 50.8 cm x 20.32 cm x 21.9075 cm
- base: 15.6 cm; 6 5/32 in
- overall: 19 1/2 in x 8 in x 7 1/2 in; 49.53 cm x 20.32 cm x 19.05 cm
- ID Number
- MG.290006.60
- model number
- 197
- accession number
- 290006
- catalog number
- 290006.60
- maker number
- 863
- Credit Line
- University of Minnesota, School of Pharmacy
- subject
- Ophthalmology
- Education
- Education
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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