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  • Thorn-apple or Jamestown weed (Datura stramonium): entire flowering and fruiting plant. Coloured etching by A. Duménil, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
  • Four Egyptian plants in a landscape, including purging cassia, French jujube or Chinese date, and a taro species. Line engraving, c. 1676.
  • Four poisonous plants: monk's hood (Aconitum napellus), deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna), woody nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) and thorn-apple (Datura stramonium) Coloured engraving by J. Johnstone, 1855.
  • Cigarettes Antiasthmatiques Daturol: product label. Colour lithograph.
  • Two flowering plants: thorn-apple (Datura stramonium) on the left and henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) on the right. Colour process print, 1924.
  • Four British garden plants: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
  • Seven garden plants, including a Cape jasmine: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
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  • view Seven garden plants, including a Cape jasmine: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
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    Seven garden plants, including a Cape jasmine: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.

    | Date: 1834 | Reference: 27454i
  • view Four British garden plants: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
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    Four British garden plants: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.

    | Date: 1837 | Reference: 27375i
  • view Four poisonous plants: monk's hood (Aconitum napellus), deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna), woody nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) and thorn-apple (Datura stramonium) Coloured engraving by J. Johnstone, 1855.
    • Pictures
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    Four poisonous plants: monk's hood (Aconitum napellus), deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna), woody nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) and thorn-apple (Datura stramonium) Coloured engraving by J. Johnstone, 1855.

    | Date: [1855] | Reference: 28005i
  • view Two flowering plants: thorn-apple (Datura stramonium) on the left and henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) on the right. Colour process print, 1924.
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    Two flowering plants: thorn-apple (Datura stramonium) on the left and henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) on the right. Colour process print, 1924.

    | Date: 12 April 1924 | Reference: 25610i
  • view Cigarettes Antiasthmatiques Daturol: product label. Colour lithograph.
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    Cigarettes Antiasthmatiques Daturol: product label. Colour lithograph.

    | Date: [1890?/1910] | Reference: 554216i
    Part of: Labels for pharmaceutical packaging. Colour lithographs.
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