Acer Collection

Oriolus oriolus, Eurasian golden oriole
Plate 31 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 2 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Acer campestre L. field or Engliah maple
Sketch 1 from a collection of original drawings and sketches by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Sycamore maple or planetree maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, Acero fico, Platano falso. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Flowering quillwort or awl-leaf lilaea, Lilaea subulata, Lilea subulata. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Italian maple, Acer opalus, Ital. L Erable opale. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Pierre Joseph Buchoz Les dons merveilleux et diversement colories de la nature dans le r?

Varnish tree or wax tree
Varnish tree, Ailanthus altissima, or wax tree, Rhus succedanea. (Albonia peregrina, Nobis. Rhus succedaneum, Linn.) Le faux vernix

Maple tree (Acer). Date: 1842

Larch tree, Larix decidua, and maple tree, Acer species. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Sycamore maple tree, Acer pseudoplatanas, Erable sycomore. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr

Boxelder maple, Acer negundo (Negundo aceroides foliis albo-variegatis). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Japanese maple, Acer palmatum (Acer polymorphum foliis dissectis roseo-variegatis). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Japanese maple or iroha momiji, Acer palmatum (Acer palmatum fol. atropurpureum). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Silver maple and potato
Silver maple, Acer saccharinum 1, and potato, Solanum tuberosum 2, tubers a, b, c. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children)

Green silver-lines and mocha moth feeding on maple leaves
Green silver-lines, Pseudoips prasinana, and mocha moth, Cyclophora annularia, feeding on maple leaves, Acer campestris. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn

Curtis British Entomology Plate 577
Hemiptera: Aphis tiliae = Eucallipterus tiliae (Lime-tree Aphis) [Plant: Acer pseudoplatanus (Sycamore)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 417
Siphonoptera: Ceratophyllus elongatus = Ischnopsyllus elongatus (Yellow Bat?s Flea) [Plant: Erigeron acer (Erigeron acre, Blue Fleabane)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 328
Lepidoptera: Ptilophora plumigera (Plumed Prominent) [Plant: Acer campestre (Common Maple)] Date: 1824-39

Red maple leaves in autumn, Acer rubrum.. Illustration by Clarissa Badger, nee Munger, from Wild Flowers, Drawn and Colored from Nature, New York, 1859

Acer sacharenum, rock maple tree
Illustration of rock maple tree leaves from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Ruige ahornboom, acer
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Acer campestre, field maple
Illustration of field maple leaves from the Plate Collection of the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Acer pseudoplatanus, sycamore or great maple
Illustrative plate 15 from Le Regne Vegetal. Vol 16 1871. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Acer trilobatum, miocene maple seeds
Miocene maple seeds originating from an Acer trilobatum

Acer pseudoplatanus, sycamore
Photographed by Pat Hart, Summer 2003

Acer trilobatum, sycamore or maple leaf
Fossilised leaf dating from the Miocene period, collected in Oeningen, Baden, Germany. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Dendroica dominica, yellow-throated warbler
Plate 62, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby

Turdus sp. thrush chicks
Plate 121 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Dolichonyx oryzivorus, bobolink
Plate 54 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Acronicta aceris, sycamore moth caterpillar
The brightly coloured caterpillars of the sycamore moths are found in southern England and feed on the leaves of the sycamore tree, as well as other deciduous trees

Pica nuttallii Cyanocitta stelleri Aphelocoma californica Nu
Plate 362 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

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