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  • Chrysanthemums and lotus flowers. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Pink and yellow chrysanthemums, China
  • A basket of flowers, peonies, chrysanthemums and orchids. Watercolour painting.
  • An album cover: chrysanthemums seen through a torn umbrella. Colour woodcut, ca. 1900.
  • Pink flowers, possibly chrysanthemums, arranged in a bottle. Watercolour attributed to M. C. Stopes, 1898.
  • Six women enjoy a dalliance in a garden while a man tends chrysanthemums. Colour woodcut.
  • A plant, possibly a chrysanthemum: flowering stem. Watercolour.
  • Chinese Materia medica, C17: Plant drugs, Chrysanthemum
  • Two plants, a flowering chrysanthemum and Sanguisorba species. Watercolour.
  • Developing pollen grains in a Chrysanthemum flower bud, LM
  • Two flowering plants, possibly a chrysanthemum and loquat (Eriobotrya japonica). Watercolour.
  • A plant, possibly a garden chrysanthemum (Dendranthema): flowering stem and seedlings. Watercolour.
  • Two plants of the Compositae family: a flowering thistle (left) and yellow chrysanthemum (right). Watercolour.
  • A pair of actors at a chrysanthemum display. Colour woodcut by Munehiro, early 1860s.
  • A corn marigold (Chrysanthemum segetum) with an associated beetle and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.
  • Four flowers: a chrysanthemum, an auricula, a tulip and a morning glory. Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after Guenébeaud.
  • Tanacetum cinerariifolium Sch.Blp. Asteraceae Dalmation chrysanthemum, Pyrethrum, Pellitory, Tansy. Distribution: Balkans. Source of the insecticides called pyrethrins. The Physicians of Myddfai in the 13th century used it for toothache. Gerard called it Pyrethrum officinare, Pellitorie of Spain but mentions no insecticidal use, mostly for 'palsies', agues, epilepsy, headaches, to induce salivation, and applied to the skin, to induce sweating. He advised surgeons to use it to make a cream against the Morbum Neopolitanum [syphilis]. However he also describes Tanacetum or Tansy quite separately.. Quincy (1718) gave the same uses
  • Ox-eye or marguerite daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare): flowers and leaves. Watercolour.
  • Alecost or costmary (Balsamita major Desf.): flowering stem with separate leaf and floral segments and a description of the plant and its uses. Coloured line engraving by C.H. Hemerich, c.1759, after T. Sheldrake.
  • Various leaf forms, leaf arrangements and bulbs. Watercolour by I. Sawkins.
  • An amateur actor in drag, holding flowers and a parasol, poses in front of delicately painted backdrop. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • An amateur actor in drag, holding flowers and a parasol, poses in front of delicately painted backdrop. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Complimentary dinner to Mark Twain : Victoria Hall, Hotel Cecil, Friday June 16th, 1899 / Whitefriars Club.
  • Complimentary dinner to Mark Twain : Victoria Hall, Hotel Cecil, Friday June 16th, 1899 / Whitefriars Club.
  • Complimentary dinner to Mark Twain : Victoria Hall, Hotel Cecil, Friday June 16th, 1899 / Whitefriars Club.
  • Complimentary dinner to Mark Twain : Victoria Hall, Hotel Cecil, Friday June 16th, 1899 / Whitefriars Club.
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Alcoholic beverages
  • Ming Chinese prescription book, first page
  • Chinese drugs personified: Lithograph, 1935
  • Chinese drugs personified: Lithograph, 1935