From 532cc2995db9caee73854a8927a2e044be678787 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Elan Ernest <23121882+ImportanceOfBeingErnest@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 15:22:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Backport PR #12469: Clarify documentation of
 offsetbox.AnchoredText's prop kw argument

---
 lib/matplotlib/offsetbox.py | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/offsetbox.py b/lib/matplotlib/offsetbox.py
index 75d910936555..1f4a159c67de 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/offsetbox.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/offsetbox.py
@@ -1217,8 +1217,9 @@ def __init__(self, s, loc, pad=0.4, borderpad=0.5, prop=None, **kwargs):
         borderpad : float, optional
             Pad between the frame and the axes (or *bbox_to_anchor*).
 
-        prop : `matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties`
-            Font properties.
+        prop : dictionary, optional, default: None
+            Dictionary of keyword parameters to be passed to the
+            `~matplotlib.text.Text` instance contained inside AnchoredText.
 
         Notes
         -----