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An English iris (Iris latifolia): flower and leaf. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1803, after S. Edwards.
Edwards, Sydenham, 1768-1819.Date: 1 October 1803Reference: 25818i- Pictures
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A yellow iris (Iris variegata): flower and leaf. Coloured engraving by J. Sowerby, c. 1787, after himself.
Sowerby, James, 1757-1822.Date: 1787Reference: 25805i- Pictures
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A flowering blue flag iris (Marica caerulea) Chromolithograph, c. 1888, after H. Moon.
Moon, Henry George, 1857-1905.Date: 21 January 1888Reference: 28331i- Pictures
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An iris (Iris persica), a fungus (Isaria species) and quillwort (Isoetes species) Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1811.
Date: 11 September 1811Reference: 25539i- Archives and manuscripts
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M0005904: Iris Florentina (Orris root), from Bentley and Trimen: Medicinal plants (1880)
Date: 15 November 1938Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/49/8Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
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Yellow flag (Iris pseudacorus): flowering stem. Watercolour, 1904.
Date: 1904Reference: 21111i- Pictures
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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.
Kilburn, William, 1745-1818.Date: [20 July 1776]Reference: 24527i- Pictures
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A variegated tulip (Tulipa species) and blue flag iris (Iris versicolor): flowering stems. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
Robert, Nicolas, 1614-1685.Date: [c. 1660]Reference: 24916i- Digital Images
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Iris graminea L. Iridaceae Grass-leaved flag. Flower de Luce. Distribution: Central and Southern Europe. This is probably the Iris bulbosa minor sive angustifolia [the lesser bulbed or narrow-leaved Iris], Lesser bulbed Flower de luce of Parkinson (1640). He advised that the properties of all Flag Irises were more or less the same, but says there is no agreement about the properties of the bulbous kinds (such as this plant). Of the Flag Irises, Culpeper (1650) writes that the roots 'resist poison, help shortness of the breath, prove the terms [menstruation]
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Gladdon or stinking iris (Iris foetidissima) with an insect and its abdominal segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.
Date: 1 Jan 1830Reference: 24025i- Pictures
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Various leaf forms, leaf venation, bud arrangements and woody stems. Watercolour by I. Sawkins.
Sawkins, Isabel.Reference: 22133i- Pictures
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Iris, Aesculapius and Flora routing death. Mezzotint by J.J. Haid, 1737, after J.W. Baumgartner.
Baumgartner, Johann Wolfgang, 1712-1761.Date: [1737]Reference: 664658i- Archives and manuscripts
Audrey Amiss sketchbook: flowers in Audrey's garden (May-June 1991)
Date: 16/05/1991-06/06/1991Reference: PP/AMI/B/413Part of: Audrey Amiss Archive- Pictures
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Butterfly iris (Moraea sp.): entire flowering plant with separate fruiting stem and sections of leaf and bulb. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1776]Reference: 17992i- Pictures
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A border of plants from a Roman garden in the 1st century A.D., with the main plants labelled. Photograph.
Reference: 26632i- Books
Global scientific practice in an age of revolutions, 1750-1850 / edited by Patrick Manning & Daniel Rood.
Date: [2016]