The illustration was created by painter Professor Gottlieb von Koch together with biologist Dr. Friedrich Quentell and the teacher Heinrich Jung. Up until the 1930s, Jung/Koch/Quentell charts were published by Frommann & Morian. After the war Hagemann, a publishing house of educational media, bought the rights for Jung/ Koch/Quentell charts and started to publish them in the late 1950s, early 1960s.

The chart is an offset-print on paper mounted on canvas, fixed on split wooden dowels and in excellent condition.