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  • A sunflower, a symbol of bringing life back by giving blood; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the AIIMS Blood Transfusion Service and NGO AIDS Cell, New Delhi. Colour lithograph by N.R. Nanda, ca. January 1994.
  • A sunflower, a symbol of bringing life back by giving blood; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the AIIMS Blood Transfusion Service and NGO AIDS Cell, New Delhi. Colour lithograph by N.R. Nanda, ca. January 1994.
  • Sunflower (Helianthus giganteus L.): flowering stem. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1772.
  • Yellow sunflowers with the words "Postiv-Gruppe", an [HIV] positive group organised by the AIDS-Hilfe Hamburg e.V. Colour lithograph by Sunnah Wagner and Axel Göttsch.
  • Seven British garden plants, including a rhododendron: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • Seven garden plants, including an orchid and a sunflower: 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 Seven garden plants, including an orchid and a sunflower: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1836.
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    Seven garden plants, including an orchid and a sunflower: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1836.

    | Date: 1836 | Reference: 27503i
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    Clytie abandoned by Apollo in the form of the sun is turned into a sunflower. Engraving by G. Duchange after N. Bertin.

    Bertin, Nicolas, 1668-1736 | Date: [not after 1757] | Reference: 2500255i
  • view A sunflower, a symbol of bringing life back by giving blood; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the AIIMS Blood Transfusion Service and NGO AIDS Cell, New Delhi. Colour lithograph by N.R. Nanda, ca. January 1994.
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A sunflower, a symbol of bringing life back by giving blood; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the AIIMS Blood Transfusion Service and NGO AIDS Cell, New Delhi. Colour lithograph by N.R. Nanda, ca. January 1994.

    | Date: [Jan '94?] | Reference: 677315i
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    Clytie abandoned by Apollo, is rejected by Cupid and is turned into a sunflower. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi after a follower of Annibale Carracci.

    | Date: Novr. 26th. 1772 | Reference: 2804067i
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