Ricinus communis
name: label: maker
content: Brendel
notes: label: Description
content: Brendel model of Ricinus communis. 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
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Berlin, Berlin
topic: label: Subject
content: Education
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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.290006.07
label: model number
content: 122
label: catalog number
content: 290006.07
label: accession number
content: 290006
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: Physical Description
content: plaster (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall (approx.): 20 1/2 in x 10 1/2 in x 10 1/2 in; 52.07 cm x 26.67 cm x 26.67 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 1/8 in x 8 in x 9 in; 51.1175 cm x 20.32 cm x 22.86 cm