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Avens Collection

Background imageAvens Collection: Proliferating avens from the Pyrenean Mountains

Proliferating avens from the Pyrenean Mountains. Illustration from Dr John Hill, Verhandeling over de verdubbeling van bloemen... Uit het engelsch vertaald

Background imageAvens Collection: Wood avens, Geum urbanum

Wood avens, Geum urbanum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants)

Background imageAvens Collection: Scarlet flowered Avens, Geum coccineum

Scarlet flowered Avens, Geum coccineum.. Handcolored illustration by E.D. Smith engraved by Watts from Charles McIntoshs Flora and Pomona 1829

Background imageAvens Collection: Water avens, Geum rivale

Water avens, Geum rivale. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816

Background imageAvens Collection: Alpine avens, Geum montanum

Alpine avens, Geum montanum
La Benoite des Alpes. Alpine avens, Geum montanum, and Doris longwing butterfly, Heliconius doris. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus

Background imageAvens Collection: Curtis British Entomology Plate 644

Curtis British Entomology Plate 644
Hymenoptera: Mesoleptus waltoni Curtis = Sympherta fusicornis [Plant: Dryas octopetala (Mountain Avens)] Date: 1824-39

Background imageAvens Collection: Curtis British Entomology Plate 271

Curtis British Entomology Plate 271
Coleoptera: Apate capucinus = Bostrichus capucinus (Capuchin Beetle) [Plant: Geum urbanum (Common Avens)] Date: 1824-39

Background imageAvens Collection: Curtis British Entomology Plate 193

Curtis British Entomology Plate 193
Lepidoptera: Cerura latifasciata = Harpyia bifida (Poplar Kitten) [Plant: Geum rivale (Water Avens)] Date: 1824-39

Background imageAvens Collection: Plant watercolours by Elizabeth Twining

Plant watercolours by Elizabeth Twining
From a bound volume watercolour drawings of plants : including the originals for her Illustrations of the Natural Order of Plants. Watercolour on paper. c. 1840s by Elizabeth Twining (1805-1889)

Background imageAvens Collection: Dryas Drummondii (Drummonds mountain-avens)

Dryas Drummondii (Drummonds mountain-avens), a flowering perennial of the Rosaceae family, with yellow flowers. It is a wild plant, native to North America

Background imageAvens Collection: L Avenc. Cover. 1884

L Avenc. Cover. 1884
L Avenc. Catalan literary and artistic magazine, founded in Barcelona in 1881. Cover of a copy of the January 31, 1884 with a portrait to Angel Guimera

Background imageAvens Collection: Yellow-flowered or Drummonds mountain avens

Yellow-flowered or Drummonds mountain avens, Dryas drummondii.. Illustration drawn by William Jackson Hooker, engraved by Swan

Background imageAvens Collection: Dryas Octopetala (Mountain Avens, White Dryas)

Dryas Octopetala (Mountain Avens, White Dryas)
Dryas Octopetala (Mountain Avens, White Dryas, White Dryad), an arctic-alpine flowering plant of the Rosaceae family, with creamy coloured petals. Seen here growing in a rocky setting

Background imageAvens Collection: Geum Reptans (Creeping Avens)

Geum Reptans (Creeping Avens), a perennial plant of the Rosaceae family


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