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  • Seven British garden plants, including a lupin: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1833.
  • Seven British garden plants, including a cardoon: flowering stems and some floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1833.
  • Six figures of whole and sectioned fruits showing arrangement of the pericarp. Coloured etching by F. Sansom, c. 1802, after S. Edwards.
  • A lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedium species): flowering plant and floral segments. Coloured lithograph, c. 1862, after W. Fitch.
  • Seven plants, including two cacti (Echinocactus species): flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
  • Flora Londinensis. Or Plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London: with their places of growth, and times of flowering; their several names according to Linnæus and other authors: with a particular description of each plant in Latin and English. To which are added, their several uses in medicine, agriculture, rural œconomy and other arts / By William Curtis.
  • Seven plants, including three orchids and two cacti: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
  • An anemone (Anemone hortensis): flowering plant. Coloured engraving, c. 1790.
  • Seven garden plants, including two orchids: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
  • Seven garden plants, including a Cape jasmine: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • Flora Londinensis. Or Plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London: with their places of growth, and times of flowering; their several names according to Linnæus and other authors: with a particular description of each plant in Latin and English. To which are added, their several uses in medicine, agriculture, rural œconomy and other arts / By William Curtis.
  • Seven garden plants, including an orchid and a passion flower: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1836.
  • Wild plum (Pappea capensis): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured engraving, c. 1792.
  • Rock or wall cress (Arabis alpina): flowering stem. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1793.
  • Grape hyacinth (Muscari atlanticum): flowering plant. Coloured engraving, c. 1790.
  • A tropical orchid (Masdevallia chimaera): flowering plant and separate flower. Coloured lithograph, c. 1875, after W. Fitch.
  • A plant (Monsonia speciosa): flowering stem and leaf Coloured engraving, c. 1789.
  • Bushy hawkweed (Hieracium umbellatum): flowering and fruiting plant with floral segments. Coloured engraving, c.1777, after S. Edwards.
  • Four examples of single flowers: a deadly nightshade, thorn apple, periwinkle and wallflower. Coloured etching by F. Sansom, c. 1802, after S. Edwards.