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  • A plant (Lycium aethiopicum): flowering stem and floral segments. Watercolour by G. D. Ehret, 1736.

    • Ehret, Georg Dionysius, 1708-1770.
    Date
    [spring 1736]
    Reference
    28364i
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  • Woody nightshade or bittersweet (Solanum dulcamara): flowering and fruiting stem. Watercolour.

    Reference
    22084i
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  • Black nightshade (Solanum nigrum L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.

    • Bouchard, Magdalena.
    Date
    [1774]
    Reference
    16859i
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  • Aubergine or egg plant (Solanum melongena): fruits of different varieties. Chromolithograph, c. 1870, after H. Briscoe.

    • Briscoe, H.
    Date
    [1870]
    Reference
    26150i
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  • Four British garden plants: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.

    • Sweet, Robert, 1783-1835.
    Date
    1834
    Reference
    27334i
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  • Seven plants, including an azalea and an orchid: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1833.

    Date
    1833
    Reference
    27579i
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  • A crimson petunia plant (Petunia x hybrida): flowering stem. Chromolithograph, c. 1879, after F. Hulme.

    • Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909.
    Date
    [1879-1887]
    Reference
    24349i
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  • A cudweed plant (Gnaphalium species), mandrake plant (Mandragora officinarum) and breadfruit tree (Artocarpus atilis). Coloured engraving, c. 1827.

    Date
    [1827]
    Reference
    27951i
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  • Browallia americana L.: entire flowering plant with separate parts of fruit and seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.

    • Bouchard, Magdalena.
    Date
    [1774]
    Reference
    17029i
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  • Four examples of single flowers: a deadly nightshade, thorn apple, periwinkle and wallflower. Coloured etching by F. Sansom, c. 1802, after S. Edwards.

    • Edwards, Sydenham, 1768-1819.
    Date
    31 December 1802
    Reference
    24243i
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  • Four British garden plants: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.

    • Sweet, Robert, 1783-1835.
    Date
    1837
    Reference
    27375i
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  • A plant (Solanum sp.): entire flowering and fruiting plant. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.

    • Bouchard, Magdalena.
    Date
    [1774]
    Reference
    16861i
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  • Boxthorn (Lycium sandwicense): flowering and fruiting stems. Chromolithograph by Leighton Brothers, c. 1887, after I. Sinclair.

    • Sinclair, Francis, Mrs.
    Date
    [1887]
    Reference
    25339i
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  • Deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna): flowering plants growing in woodland. Colour process print, c. 1924.

    Date
    [1924]
    Reference
    25605i
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  • A fruiting Abutilon species, a fruiting pepper plant (Capsicum sp.) and a flowering Sisyrinchium orientale. Etching by G. D. Ehret, c. 1743, after himself.

    • Ehret, Georg Dionysius, 1708-1770.
    Date
    [1743-45]
    Reference
    18619i
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  • Holmes, Edward Morell (1843-1930), botanist and lecturer in materia medica

    • Holmes, Edward Morell, 1843-1930.
    Date
    1876-1930
    Reference
    MSS.2867-2932, 7961 & WMS/Amer.145-148
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  • Four British garden plants, including a rose and lupin: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1836.

    • Sweet, Robert, 1783-1835.
    Date
    1836
    Reference
    27356i
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  • Mandrake roots in the form of human figures, both naked and clothed; the mandrake plant itself (Mandragora officinarum L.); and a root of ginseng (Panax quinquefolius L.). Engraving.

    Reference
    20442i
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  • Seven plants, including a chalice vine and fuchsia: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1833.

    Date
    1833
    Reference
    27548i
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  • 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.

    • Henderson, Peter, active 1799-1829.
    Date
    1 July 1805
    Reference
    18320i
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  • Five different types of butterfly flower (Schizanthus species): flowering stems and leaves. Coloured lithograph.

    Reference
    27236i
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  • Two aubergine fruits (Solanum melongena) and an umbelliferous plant stem. Watercolour.

    Reference
    23404i
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  • Four poisonous plants: monk's hood (Aconitum napellus), deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna), woody nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) and thorn-apple (Datura stramonium) Coloured engraving by J. Johnstone, 1855.

    • Johnstone, John.
    Date
    [1855]
    Reference
    28005i
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  • A Brazilian sassafras tree (Aniba species) and a Petunia plant in an exotic landscape with snakes, lizards and tribal people. Etching, c. 1671.

    • Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683.
    Date
    [1671]
    Reference
    24657i
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  • Chinese boxthorn (Lycium barbarum): stem with leaves. Watercolour.

    Reference
    22582i
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