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  • Clove tree (Syzygium aromaticum): flowering stem and separate fruit. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1842.
  • Clove tree (Syzygium aromaticum): flowering and fruiting stem with cloves and parasitic worm. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1808, after J. Ihle.
  • A plant related to the clove tree (Eugenia species): flowering and fruiting stem and separate flowers, fruit and seed. Coloured line engraving.
  • Above, a sprig of a clove tree, a beetle, two sprigs of a cassia tree bearing leaves from which senna is extracted, a beaver and three different cavies (small rodents); below, two beetles and a mocking creeper. Etching by Heath.
  • Clove plant (Syzygium aromaticum): stem with flower buds. Watercolour, c.1833.
  • A plant (Eugenia corymbosa Lam.): branch with flowers and fruit, separate flowers and fruit and section of fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.
  • Twelve British wild flowers with their common names. Coloured engraving, c. 1861, after J. Sowerby.
  • An artist dreams that he is painting the portrait of the Devil disguised as a virtuoso: episode in a fable by John Ogilby. Etching attributed to F. Barlow, 1673.
  • A woman is playing the harp as she and her male companion sing together, representing a man and a woman in love. Etching by James Gillray.