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Poppies

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  • A wild poppy (Papaver argemone): flowering stems and leaf. Chromolithograph, c. 1877, after F. E. Hulme.
  • A Christmas rose (Helleborus niger), a poppy (Papaver species) and borage (Borago officinalis): flowering stems. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
  • Seven plants, including an orchid, a paeony and a toadflax: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • Yellow horned poppy (Glaucium flavum Crantz.): entire flowering and fruiting plant with seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.
  • Something old : poppie (papaver somniferum) : something new in the treatment of cough Extil compound linctus.
  • Something old : poppie (papaver somniferum) : something new in the treatment of cough Extil compound linctus.
  • Yellow horned poppy (Glaucium flavum): flowering and fruiting stem. Chromolithograph, c. 1877, after F. E. Hulme.
  • Something old : poppie (papaver somniferum) : something new in the treatment of cough Extil compound linctus.
  • Something old : poppie (papaver somniferum) : something new in the treatment of cough Extil compound linctus.
  • Oriental poppy (Papaver orientale): flowering stem and floral segments. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.
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Catalogue

  • view A poppy capsule (Papaver species), and two flowering stems. Watercolour.
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    A poppy capsule (Papaver species), and two flowering stems. Watercolour.

    | Reference: 23040i
  • view A California poppy (Eschscholzia californica): flowering stems and pod. Chromolithograph, c. 1879, after F. Hulme.
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    A California poppy (Eschscholzia californica): flowering stems and pod. Chromolithograph, c. 1879, after F. Hulme.

    Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909. | Date: [1879-1887] | Reference: 24346i
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    Oriental poppy (Papaver orientale): flowering stem. Coloured engraving, c. 1788.

    | Date: 1788 | Reference: 25806i
  • view Something old : poppie (papaver somniferum) : something new in the treatment of cough Extil compound linctus.
    • Ephemera
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    Something old : poppie (papaver somniferum) : something new in the treatment of cough Extil compound linctus.

    | Date: [approximately 1965]
  • view Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum): white flowers, seed capsule and seeds. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.
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    Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum): white flowers, seed capsule and seeds. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.

    Burnett, M. A., active 1850. | Date: [1853] | Reference: 23992i
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