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  • Spiderwort (Tradescantia discolor): leafy plant and separate numbered sections of inflorescence, flower and fruit with seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
  • Seven garden plants, including an orchid and an amaryllis: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
  • Spiderwort (Tradescantia discolor): leafy plant and separate numbered sections of inflorescence, flower and fruit with seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
  • Seven British garden plants, including a rhododendron: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • Spiderwort (Tradescantia virginiana): flowering stem. Coloured lithograph.
  • Seven garden plants, including an orchid and a passion flower: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1836.
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  • view Seven British garden plants, including a rhododendron: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
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    Seven British garden plants, including a rhododendron: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.

    | Date: 1834 | Reference: 27445i
  • view Spiderwort (Tradescantia discolor): leafy plant and separate numbered sections of inflorescence, flower and fruit with seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Spiderwort (Tradescantia discolor): leafy plant and separate numbered sections of inflorescence, flower and fruit with seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

    Hoola, Berthe van Nooten. | Date: [1885] | Reference: 16419i
  • view Seven garden plants, including an orchid and an amaryllis: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Seven garden plants, including an orchid and an amaryllis: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.

    | Date: 1837 | Reference: 27512i
  • view Spiderwort (Tradescantia virginiana): flowering stem. Coloured lithograph.
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Spiderwort (Tradescantia virginiana): flowering stem. Coloured lithograph.

    | Reference: 27258i
  • view Seven garden plants, including an orchid and a passion flower: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1836.
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Seven garden plants, including an orchid and a passion flower: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1836.

    | Date: 1836 | Reference: 27499i
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