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  • A tobacco plant (Nicotiana tabacum), its flowers and seeds, bordered by six scenes illustrating its use by man. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.
  • Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum): white flowers, seed capsule and seeds. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.
  • The manufacture of tobacco with leaves being sorted, dried, cured and pressed. Engraving, c. 1750.
  • A Chinese woman picking tea leaves. Wood engraving, 1857, after a pen and ink drawing.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers trim the harvested tea leaves. Coloured lithograph.
  • An opium poppy (Papaver somniferum): seed capsule. Watercolour.
  • Tobacco plants (Nicotiana rustica and N. paniculata): flowering and fruiting stem of both species with their respective floral segments.Engraving by J.Caldwall, c.1805, after P.Henderson.
  • A poppy capsule oozing drops of crude opium and tools for its extraction. Lithograph, ca. 1850.
  • Women gathering leaves of the coca plant (Erythroxylum coca) in Bolivia. Wood engraving, c. 1867.
  • The blossom and fruit of a coffee tree (Coffea arabica) Photograph.
  • A fruiting cacao tree (Theobroma cacao) Photograph.
  • A Chinese man with his tea pot, and workers harvesting tea. Etching with engraving, c. 1693.
  • Plants, fish and a landscape from the East Indies, including pepper, cocoa, indigo and coffee plants. Line engraving after C. de Bruins, 1706.
  • Indian workers harvesting the crop on a coffee plantation. Coloured lithograph by Deroi, c. 1850, after J. M. Rugendas.