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  • Bracken plants (Pteridium aquilinum): both young and old fronds. Watercolour.
  • Adder's tongue (Ophioglossum vulgatum L.): fertile stem with description of the plant and its medicinal uses. Coloured line engraving by J. Basire, the younger, c. 1759, after T. Sheldrake.
  • The British Museum: the Botanical Room, with visitors. Wood engraving, [1858].
  • Peru: a cinchona forest; a shelter and figures in a clearing. Reproduction of an engraving, 1750/1850.
  • Seven British garden plants, including a cardoon: flowering stems and some floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1833.
  • Various leaf forms, leaf venation, bud arrangements and woody stems. Watercolour by I. Sawkins.
  • Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1867.
  • Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1867.
  • Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1867.
  • Vegetation of the cinchona forest of Peru.
  • Onychium japonicum 'Dali'
  • A woman watching a surgeon approaching a body for an operation; representing a tribute to László Schultheisz on the occasion of his first surgical operation. Pen and ink drawing by Dénes Györgyi, 1918.
  • The troupe of Royal Midgets : including Madam Tom Thumb.
  • The troupe of Royal Midgets : including Madam Tom Thumb.
  • Ruins of a marble tower, Beijing, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Ruins of a marble tower, Beijing, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • A man from the Hawaiian Islands wearing a mask; encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by T. Cook after J. Webber, 1780/1785.
  • Colombia: a covered passage providing a prospect of the Cordillera mountains across a ravine. Coloured etching by C. Empson, 1836.
  • Samuel Wood, a man whose shoulder and arm were torn off in an accident at a mill. Engraving, 1737.
  • Samuel Wood, a man whose shoulder and arm were torn off in an accident at a mill. Engraving, 1737.
  • Carum carvi (Caraway)
  • Foeniculum vulgare (Fennel)
  • Fred Roper and his wonder midgets.
  • Fred Roper and his wonder midgets.
  • Saint Barbara. Engraving by C. van Noorde, 1769, after Jan van Eyck.
  • An anchoress or nun of an enclosed order locked in her cell; representing the monastic cell as the heaven of the loving soul. Coloured engraving, 16--.
  • Niccolò Cyrillo. Line engraving.
  • Johann Gottfried Matthes (Mathes), a "natural healer", taking the pulse of a patient suffering from the dropsy. Etching, 1784.
  • Tigridia pavonia (L.f.)DC. Iridaceae Distribution: Peru. These colourful, tulip-like flowers were named by De Candolle for Joseph (José) Pavón Jiménez (1754-1840), the Spanish pharmacist/botanist who accompanied Hipólito Ruiz and Joseph Dombey on their epic botanising in Peru and Chile (1777-1788) in search of quinine and medicinal plants. On the 8th April 1777, King Carlos III of Spain gave permission for the three botanists and two artists to travel from Spain to America to study the flora of Peru and Chile, then Spanish dominions. Initially around Lima, and then further afield, they collected plants which their artists painted