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  • Two sprigs of flowers, including iris and double Narcissus, meant as designs for embroidery. Etching with engraving after W. Kilburn, 1775.
  • Four British garden plants: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • A variegated tulip (Tulipa species) and blue flag iris (Iris versicolor): flowering stems. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
  • Various leaf forms, leaf venation, bud arrangements and woody stems. Watercolour by I. Sawkins.
  • Gladdon or stinking iris (Iris foetidissima) with an insect and its abdominal segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.
  • Iris, Aesculapius and Flora routing death. Mezzotint by J.J. Haid, 1737, after J.W. Baumgartner.
  • A border of plants from a Roman garden in the 1st century A.D., with the main plants labelled. Photograph.