Colchicum autumnale. L. VI. 3 flos., No. 56.
name: label: maker
content: Brendel
notes: label: Description
content: Brendel model of Colchicum autumnale (or autumn crocus). 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.
label: Description
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Education
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content: Medicine and Science: Pharmacy
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: University of Minnesota, School of Pharmacy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.290006.02
label: model number
content: 56
label: accession number
content: 290006
label: catalog number
content: 290006.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Botanical Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: papier mache (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall (approx.): 18 1/2 in x 8 in x 8 in; 46.99 cm x 20.32 cm x 20.32 cm