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A bunch of flowering geraniums and sweet peas. Coloured lithograph by E. Champin, ca. 1850.
Champin, Elisa-Honorine, -1871.Date: 1850Reference: 27102i
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Horsemint (Mentha longifolia (L.) Huds.): entire flowering plant with separate flower. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1776]Reference: 18142i
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A damask rose (Rosa damascena): two flowering stems, one in outline only. Etching, c. 1787.
Date: [1 July 1787]Reference: 24950i
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Mung bean (Phaseolus mungo L.): flowering stem with separate fruit and seed. Coloured etching after F.A. von Scheidl, 1770.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1770]Reference: 17746i
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A border of trees, palms and herbaceous plants from a Roman garden in the 1st century A.D. Coloured photograph.
Date: 1891Reference: 26629i
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Cudweed (Gnaphalium congestum): flowering stem. Coloured engraving by C. White, c. 1817, after S. Edwards.
Edwards, Sydenham, 1768-1819.Date: 1 December 1817Reference: 25851i
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Saffron crocus (Crocus sativus L.): flowering stem with separate floral segments and bulb and 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: 18234i
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An orchid (Cattleya Schofieldianum): flowering stem. Watercolour.
Reference: 21194i
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Seven plants, including two orchids and two hawthorns: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1836.
Date: 1836Reference: 27792i
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A field surrounded by wooded hills, with a saffron crocus in the foreground and verses below. Etching by Matthäus Merian the elder ca. 1646.
Date: [1646?]Reference: 24650i
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Madonna lily or Bourbon lily (Lilium candidum): flower. Watercolour.
Reference: 21996i
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Maple tree (Acer) and black thorn or sloe (Prunus spinosa). Soft-ground etching with aquatint by J. Laporte, c. 1796, after himself.
Laporte, John, 1761-1839.Date: 22 February 1796Reference: 20751i
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Dictionary of cultivated plants and their centres of diversity excluding ornamentals, forest trees, and lower plants / A.C. Zeven and P.M. Zhukovsky.
Zeven, A. C.Date: 1975
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Garden pansies (Viola cultivars): three flowers. Coloured aquatint, c. 1839.
Date: [1839]Reference: 25304i
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A nectarine (Prunus persica var. nectarina): fruiting stem and section of fruit. Coloured zincograph by C. Rosenberg, c. 1850, after himself.
Rosenberg, C. T., active approximately 1850.Date: [1850-51]Reference: 26354i
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Bird-of-paradise plant (Strelitzia reginae): flower and leaf. Watercolour, ca. 1850 (?).
Reference: 22163i
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Glory pea (Clianthus puniceus): flowering stem, pod and seed. Coloured etching by S. Watts, c. 1835, after Miss Drake.
Drake, S. A., active 1830-1840.Date: [1812-48]Reference: 26406i
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Seven plants, including two orchids and two hawthorns: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1836.
Date: 1836Reference: 27722i
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Seven plants, including three orchids and a broom: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1836.
Date: 1836Reference: 27796i
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Alkanet (Anchusa tinctoria L.): flowering stem with separate leaf and floral segments and description of the plant and its medicinal uses. Coloured line engraving by C. H. Hemerich, c. 1759, after T. Sheldrake.
Sheldrake, Timothy, active 1740-1770.Date: [1759]Reference: 18159i
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A gladiolus cultivar (Gladiolus Lady Alice Hill): flowering stem. Chromolithograph, c. 1868, after W. H. Fitch.
Fitch, W. H. (Walter Hood), 1817-1892.Date: 1868Reference: 28134i
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Dutch crocus (Crocus vernus): four diagrams of a whole and sectioned flowering plant. Partially coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24391i
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An orchid (Phalaenopsis schilleriana): flowering stem. Chromolithograph, c. 1870, after H. Briscoe.
Briscoe, H.Date: [1870]Reference: 26146i
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Seven plants, including three orchids and a gesneria: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
Date: 1837Reference: 27537i
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Four British wild flowers, two violets and two species of heart's ease. Coloured lithograph, c. 1846, after H. Humphreys.
Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.Date: [1846]Reference: 24629i