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Passion flower (Passiflora alata): flowering stem. Watercolour, ca. 1850 (?).
Reference: 22160i
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Marsh marigold or kingcups (Caltha palustris): flowering stem. Watercolour.
Reference: 21912i
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Seven garden plants, including a Cape jasmine: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
Date: 1834Reference: 27454i
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Kwei plant (Osmanthus fragrans): flowering stem with floral segments. Coloured etching by J. Miller, c. 1771.
Miller, John, 1715-1790?Date: 1771Reference: 24553i
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A flowering iris. Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after Guenébeaud.
Guenébeaud.Date: 1850Reference: 27060i
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A bunch of sweet peas (Lathyrus odoratus). Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after Guenébeaud.
Guenébeaud.Date: 1850Reference: 27069i
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Meadow foxtail grass (Alopecurus pratensis): seedhead, leafy stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1805.
Date: [1805]Reference: 24247i
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Apple (Malus species): fruiting branch with separate fruit. Colour aquatint by B. Rosaspina after D. del Pino, 1825.
Del Pino, Domenico, active 1820.Date: [1817]Reference: 20681i
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Three flowering cultivars of stocks (Matthiola species). Chromolithograph, c. 1890.
Date: 1890Reference: 25350i
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A large kokerite palm (Maximiliana maripa) and the artist drawing it, in a tropical landscape. Chromolithograph by L. Stroobant, c. 1855.
Date: [1854-63]Reference: 26335i
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An ornate garden obelisk flanked by potted citrus trees. Etching by J. Goeree after S. Schynvoet, early 18th century.
Schijnvoet, Simon, 1653-1727.Reference: 26569i
Part of: S Schynvoet's Voorbeelden der lusthof-cieraaden zynde piramiden, eerzuylen en andere bywerken
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Coffee plant (Coffea arabica): fruiting stem. Watercolour, c.1823.
Reference: 22152i
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Manual of cultivated plants; a flora for the identification of the most common or significant species of plants grown in the continental United States and Canada : for food, ornament, utility, and general interest, both in the open and under glass / by L.H. Bailey.
Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954.Date: 1924
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Damask rose (Rosa damascena "Italica"): flowering stem. Colour halftone after Victor, c.1824, after P. J. Redouté.
Redouté, Pierre Joseph, 1759-1840.Date: [1824]Reference: 20466i
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White dead nettle (Lamium album) and common bugle (Ajuga reptans): entire flowering plants. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
Naudin, Philibert, active 1870.Date: [1865]Reference: 24681i
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Krakatoa: fan palm (Chamaerops humilis L.) with surrounding tropical forest and native woman. Coloured soft-ground etching after J. Webber, 1788.
Webber, John, 1751-1793.Date: 1 August 1788Reference: 20137i
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A balsam plant (Impatiens species): flowering stem. Chromolithograph, c. 1879, after F. Hulme.
Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909.Date: [1879-1887]Reference: 24340i
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Cochineal cactus (Nopalea cochenillifera) with insects that feed on it, including the cochineal insect (Dactylopius coccus). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1801, after J. Ihle.
Ihle, Johann-Eberhard, 1727-1814.Date: 27 November 1801Reference: 25390i
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Sloe or blackthorn (Prunus spinosa L.): flowering stem with separate fruit and segments of flower and fruit, also a description of the plant and its uses. Coloured line engraving by C.H.Hemerich, c.1759, after T.Sheldrake.
Sheldrake, Timothy, active 1740-1770.Date: [1759]Reference: 18236i
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Pink camellia (Camellia species): flower and leaves. Watercolour by G. Calmard(?).
Calmard, G.Reference: 22047i
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A plant (Achimenes longiflora): flowering stems. Coloured etching by G. Barclay, c. 1842, after Miss Drake.
Drake, S. A., active 1830-1840.Date: [1812-48]Reference: 26408i
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Cedar trees (Cedrus species) in a garden in Monmouthshire. Photogravure by R. Fenton, ca. 1856.
Fenton, Roger, 1819-1869.Date: October 1856Reference: 20502i
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Four British garden plants: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
Date: 1837Reference: 27398i
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A magnolia: flowering stem. Coloured pencil drawing by H. Paw.
Paw, Harriet.Reference: 22057i
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Four ornamental greenhouse flowers, including coral bush (Templetonia retusa). Coloured lithograph, c. 1848.
Date: [1848]Reference: 24647i