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  • Passion flower (Passiflora alata): flowering stem. Watercolour, ca. 1850 (?).

    Reference
    22160i
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  • Marsh marigold or kingcups (Caltha palustris): flowering stem. Watercolour.

    Reference
    21912i
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  • Seven garden plants, including a Cape jasmine: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.

    • Curtis, William, 1746-1799.
    Date
    1834
    Reference
    27454i
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  • A flowering iris. Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after Guenébeaud.

    • Guenébeaud.
    Date
    1850
    Reference
    27060i
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  • A bunch of sweet peas (Lathyrus odoratus). Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after Guenébeaud.

    • Guenébeaud.
    Date
    1850
    Reference
    27069i
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  • Three flowering cultivars of stocks (Matthiola species). Chromolithograph, c. 1890.

    Date
    1890
    Reference
    25350i
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  • A large kokerite palm (Maximiliana maripa) and the artist drawing it, in a tropical landscape. Chromolithograph by L. Stroobant, c. 1855.

    • Verschaffelt, Ambroise.
    Date
    [1854-63]
    Reference
    26335i
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  • Damask rose (Rosa damascena "Italica"): flowering stem. Colour halftone after Victor, c.1824, after P. J. Redouté.

    • Redouté, Pierre Joseph, 1759-1840.
    Date
    [1824]
    Reference
    20466i
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  • White dead nettle (Lamium album) and common bugle (Ajuga reptans): entire flowering plants. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.

    • Naudin, Philibert, active 1870.
    Date
    [1865]
    Reference
    24681i
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  • Krakatoa: fan palm (Chamaerops humilis L.) with surrounding tropical forest and native woman. Coloured soft-ground etching after J. Webber, 1788.

    • Webber, John, 1751-1793.
    Date
    1 August 1788
    Reference
    20137i
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  • A balsam plant (Impatiens species): flowering stem. Chromolithograph, c. 1879, after F. Hulme.

    • Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909.
    Date
    [1879-1887]
    Reference
    24340i
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  • Sloe or blackthorn (Prunus spinosa L.): flowering stem with separate fruit and segments of flower and fruit, also a description of the plant and its uses. Coloured line engraving by C.H.Hemerich, c.1759, after T.Sheldrake.

    • Sheldrake, Timothy, active 1740-1770.
    Date
    [1759]
    Reference
    18236i
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  • Pink camellia (Camellia species): flower and leaves. Watercolour by G. Calmard(?).

    • Calmard, G.
    Reference
    22047i
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  • A plant (Achimenes longiflora): flowering stems. Coloured etching by G. Barclay, c. 1842, after Miss Drake.

    • Drake, S. A., active 1830-1840.
    Date
    [1812-48]
    Reference
    26408i
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  • Cedar trees (Cedrus species) in a garden in Monmouthshire. Photogravure by R. Fenton, ca. 1856.

    • Fenton, Roger, 1819-1869.
    Date
    October 1856
    Reference
    20502i
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  • Four British garden plants: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.

    • Sweet, Robert, 1783-1835.
    Date
    1837
    Reference
    27398i
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  • A magnolia: flowering stem. Coloured pencil drawing by H. Paw.

    • Paw, Harriet.
    Reference
    22057i
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  • Four ornamental greenhouse flowers, including coral bush (Templetonia retusa). Coloured lithograph, c. 1848.

    • Loudon, Mrs. (Jane), 1807-1858.
    Date
    [1848]
    Reference
    24647i
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  • Seven British garden plants, including a coral tree: flowering stems and some floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1833.

    • Curtis, William, 1746-1799.
    Date
    1833
    Reference
    27421i
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  • Itea virginica L.: flowering stem with separate, labelled floral segments. Coloured engraving by J.J. or J.E. Haid, c.1750, after G.D. Ehret.

    • Ehret, Georg Dionysius, 1708-1770.
    Date
    [1750-53]
    Reference
    18410i
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  • Seven garden plants, including two orchids and a rhododendron: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1835.

    • Curtis, William, 1746-1799.
    Date
    1835
    Reference
    27463i
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  • A flowering pelargonium plant (Pelargonium Lòrd Derby'). Coloured zincograph by J. Andrews.

    • Andrews, James, active 1830-1861.
    Reference
    28036i
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  • A flowering shrub, possibly Dipelta. Watercolour.

    Reference
    22766i
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  • A plant (Corypha minor Jacq.) related to talipot palm: flowering stem with separate seedling, fruit and flower. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.

    • Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.
    Date
    [1776]
    Reference
    17968i
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  • A cycad plant (Zamia species) with three large fruit. Photograph.

    Reference
    28162i
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