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  • A large renaissance water garden with angels in the clouds above. Etching.
  • A Chinese lady looking at herself in a mirror (right); outside, a water-garden (left). Gouache.
  • A Chinese lady seated leaning on a tea table; right, a water-garden with ducks. Gouache.
  • University Children's Hospital, Vienna: children being sprayed with cold water in the roof garden. Photograph, 1921.
  • An ornate garden obelisk with water cascading down its sides. Etching by J. Goeree after S. Schynvoet, early 18th century.
  • The Physick Garden, Chelsea: viewed from the river, showing water gate, mooring posts and steps. Wood engraving by W. J. Palmer.
  • The Physick Garden, Chelsea: viewed from the river, showing water gate, mooring posts and steps. Wood engraving by W. J. Palmer.
  • A Chinese lady in a blue dress, seated, right, looks out of a window at a water-garden, left; trees in blossom in the foreground. Gouache.
  • Leipzig: medical historians posing in a garden with watering cans. Photograph, 1929.
  • Rosmarinus officinalis L. Lamiaceae Rosemary. Woody perennial. Distribution: Mediterranean. Quincy (1718) commended the flowers for epilepsy, apoplexy, palsies, uterine obstruction, jaundice, gout, and syringed into the ear with warm water for dislodging wax. It is licensed for use in Traditional Herbal Medicines in the UK (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Rosa gallica L. Rosaceae Distribution: S & C Europe, Western Asia. Culpeper: “Red roses cool, bind, strengthen both vital and animal virtue, restores such as are in consumptions, strengthen. Notes: Rose water and distilled oil of roses have been used in herbal medicine for over a thousand years, and are still used in aromatherapy. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Teucrium scorodonia 'Crispum Marginatum' L. Lamiaceae Distribution: Europe Teucrium is named after king Teucer (who lived in the era between 1400 and 1000 BC) the first King of Troy. Dioscorides named a medicinal herb after Teucer, and Linnaeus consolidated this in 1753. Probably the Scordium or Water Germander. It was given very similar properties. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Cytisus scoparius (L.) Link Fabaceae. Common broom, Genista. Distribution: Western and central Europe. Culpeper (1650) writes: 'Genista. Broom: … clense and open the stomach, break the stone in the reins [kidneys] and bladder, help the green sickness [anaemia]. Let such as are troubled with heart qualms or faintings, forbear it, for it weakens the heart and spirit vital' and in respect of the flowers he writes: 'Broome-flowers, purge water, and are good in dropsies [now regarded as heart failure with fluid retention].' Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A man with a pierced nipple immersed in water with his legs open to reveal his penis; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement for condoms by the Helseutvalget for Homofile, Gay and Lesbian Health Norway. Lithograph by Fin Serck-Hanssen and En-Garde Design, ca. 1995.
  • A nobleman and his wife view their garden through a window under the words "kalendarium hortense". Etching.
  • Swans, ducks and other domesticated fowl in the park of a chateau. Etching by P. Casteels after himself.
  • The canal and Gothic tower in the garden of the Duke of Argyll at Whitton, Middlesex. Etching, 18th century.
  • Car Dale Springs, Harrogate, Yorkshire. Wood engraving by Smyth after B.F.
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey: lake in the arboretum. Process print.
  • A garden pond with nine large exotic birds, two potted plants and a statue of Mercury. Etching by J. G. Thelott, 18th century, after S. Kleiner.
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey. Process print.
  • A tree bearing fruit labelled with virtues; representing the life of the Christian. Coloured etching by J. Couse, c. 1780, after J. Bakewell.
  • Island of Chios (Scio, Khio): a well in a garden. Etching by J. Dambrun after J.B. Hilair.
  • Bagnigge Wells, London: two alluring, fashionably-dressed women, one plucking rosebuds. Mezzotint, 1780.
  • The conduit at Bayswater, London. Engraving, 1798, after R. Bolton.
  • A married woman attending a health resort as a cover for a love-affair does not drink the curative water but pours it back into the basin of a fountain. Colour lithograph, 1914.
  • Famine Relief Herbal (1593): Lotus root
  • Famine Relief Herbal (1593): Edible amaranth
  • Famine Relief Herbal (1593): Adsuki bean
  • Chiengmai Leper Asylum, Thailand: livestock and horses grazing on grass surrounded by cottages and the asylum overseer's house (centre). Photograph, ca. 1921.