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  • Seven garden plants, including an orchid: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • Top, muscles of the abdomen and hip; bottom, the plant asafoetida. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.
  • King Arcesilaus of Cyrenaica overseeing the packaging of silphium (the country's main source of income) into ships for export. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937,after a Spartan cylix, c. 580-550 B.C.
  • Asafoetida plant (Ferula assa-foetida): flowering stem, leaves, seeds and root. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1806, after J. Ihle.