Botanic Collection

Garden Paintings from the so-called Villa of Livia, Primaporta, Rome, c.20 BC. Roman art. Fresco

Interior of the Great Palm House, Kew Gardens, 1852
Engraving showing the centre of Great Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey in 1852

Pansies, Pensees, or Hearts Ease, Thoughts
Pansies, Pensees, or Hearts Ease, Viola tricolor, Thoughts: You occupy my thoughts or Pensez a Moi

The Botanic Gardens, Dublin City, Republic of Ireland

Lilies of the Valley, Purity and return of
Lilies of the Valley, Convallaria majalis, Purity and return of happiness; The purple Emperor Butterfly, Apatura iris, Immortality of the soul

The red-flowered tree Rhododendron, Danger

McNabs tree transplanter, as used in Edinburgh
McNabs tree transplanter, as used by him in the Royal Scottish Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland. Date: circa 1850

Zamia pungens
Plate 1. Watercolour and bodycolour on paper, 1839 by Augusta Innes Withers (c.1791/2-1876). Held in the Library and Archives Date: 1839

Tulipa sp. tulips
Watercolour on paper, 1800s by Maria Geertruida Barbiers (nee Snabilie) (1773-1838). From the Dutch collection of Botanical drawings. Held in the Library and Archives

King George V at the Officers Association Fete at the Royal Botanic Gardens, talking to Chief O Lowa of Lagos who was in London in order to present a case before the Privy Council. Date: 1920

Champion Irish Terrier - Ch. Botanic Demon
Champion Irish Terrier - Ch. Botanic (?) Demon - Spratts Advertising Postcard. Date: circa 1910s

Botanic Gardens, Belfast, Northern Ireland. circa 1960s

Botanic Gardens, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Victorian period

Sydney Botanic Gardens, NSW, Australia

Botanic Gardens Liverpool early 1900s

Dundee Villas
A pair of photographs, the top shows a row of villas in Dundee, Eastern Scotland, the second shows the same row of buildings, but with fervent improvements

Palm House and Gardens, The Park, Birkenhead, Merseyside, England. Date: 1924

Botanic Garden - Hong Kong - March, 1932. Date: 1932

Traveller Palm, Botanic Garden, Saigon, Vietnam
Vintage 19th century photograph: Traveller Palm in the Botanic Garden, Saigon, Hochiminh City, Saigon, French Indochina, Vietnam

Botanic Gardens Regents Park
The Royal Botanic Society was a learned society founded in 1839 by James de Carle Sowerby under a royal charter to the Duke of Norfolk and others

Botanic Gardens Chelsea
The Chelsea Physic Garden (as it is now known) was established as the Apothecaries Garden in London, England, in 1673 by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries to grow plants to be used as medicines

The snow flake-leaved Narcissus, Egotism and self-love

Smiths Geranium, Preference; sweet purple
Smiths Geranium, Preference; The sweet purple and white flowered Violets, Purity of sentiment, candour, modesty innocence

The Helen Geranium, Preference; The Garden Wallflower, Fidelity in misfortune

Cocks Comb Coral Tree, Singularity; single
The Cocks Comb Coral Tree, Erythrina crista-galli, Singularity; The single white flowered Camellia or Japan Rose, Camellia japonica, Beauty is your only attraction

The sweet-scented China Rose, Infidelity
The sweet-scented China Rose, Rosa chinensis, Infidelity; The blue Hepatica, Hepatica nobilis, Confidence

The myrtle-leaved Camellia or Japan Rose, Beauty is your only attraction; The Persian Cyclamen, Diffidence

The large blue Periwinkle, The pleasures of memory
The large blue Periwinkle, Vinca major, The pleasures of memory

The slender and globose Fuchsia, Fuchsia magellanica, Taste

The racemose Passionflower, Religious superstition
The racemose Passionflower, Passiflora racemosa, Religious superstition

The white Water-Lily and yellow Nuphar, Silence
The white Water-Lily, Nymphaea odorata, and yellow waterlily, Nuphar lutea, Silence

The Mexican Tiger-flower, Tigridia pavonia, Change; The blue major Convolvulus, Night

Pink and scarlet Moss Rose-Buds, Beauty, love, and poetry

The ever-blowing Rose, Beauty always new

Great flowered Heath, Bright red Heath, Porcelain Heath, Solitude

The beautiful Cactus, Horror

The noble Ladys Slipper, Resemblance
The noble Ladys Slipper, Cypripedium reginae, Resemblance

Calligraphic title page with vignette
Calligraphic title page with botanical vignette

Mimulus roseus x Mimulus cardinalis. Hodsons hybrid mimulus, Mimulus roseo-cardinalis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration from Benjamin Maund and the Rev

Donckelaers Japan camellia, Camellia japonica var. donckelaeri. Donckelaer was head gardener at the Botanic Garden of Louvain (Leuven, Belgium). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S

Royal Botanic Society Gardens, Regents Park, London. Date: circa 1900s

Hothouse interior, Botanic Gardens, Regents Park, London. Date: circa 1900s

Interior of the Great Palm-House at Royal Gardens. Date: 1848

Exterior of the Great Palm-House at Royal Gardens. Date: 1848

The shaft of the Great Palm-Stove in Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Date: 1848

Exterior of the winter garden or Temperate House, designed for the accommodation of trees and shrubs of temperate climates which needed protection in the winter. Date: 1867

Duchess of York at the Royal Overseas League Garden Party
Elizabeth, Duchess of York (1900-2002) (later Elizabeth, the Queen Mother) at the Royal Overseas League Garden Party in the gardens of the Royal Botanic Society in Regents Park in July, 1923

Antirrhinum majus - Snapdragon. Date: circa 1930s

Atragene (Clematis). Date: circa 1930s

Paradisia Liliastrum (Paradise Lily). Date: circa 1930s

Neotinea ustulata - burnt-tip orchid
Neotinea ustulata (known as burnt orchid or burnt-tip orchid). Date: circa 1930s

Erica carnea - winter heath, winter flowering heather, spring heath, alpine heath. Date: circa 1930s

Monster Cactus at Kew Gardens 1846
Monster cactus (echinocactus Visnager) in the collection of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Date: 1846

The Great Palm House, Kew Gardens 1859
Great Palm House and lake at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey. In the foreground a large number of Victorian visitors may be seen enjoying the gardens in the summer. Date: 1859

Summer Afternoon in Kew Gardens 1870
Large number of Victorian visitors in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. In the background of this image one can see the pagoda (centre) and the Great Palm House (right). Date: 1870

Royal Botanic Gardens, Conservatory 1846
The first flower show at the Royal Botanic Society Gardens, in the inner circle of the Regents Park, London. Date: 1846

Womens archery in Regents Park, London 1900
Ladies meeting of the Royal Toxophilite Society, in the Botanic Gardens in Regents Park. Date: 1900

Cambridge Botanic Garden grape, Vitis vinifera.. Handcolored copperplate engraving by Watts of a botanical painting by Mrs. Augusta Withers from John Lindleys Pomological Magazine 1828

SCHLEIDEN, Matthias Jakob (1804-1881). German botanist and co-founder of the cell theory. Oil

Biting Arsmart, Polygonum hydropiper. Copperplate illustration from Edward Baylis, A new and compleat body of practical botanic physic from the medicinal plants of the vegetable kingdom, Vol

Villa Carlotta, Lake Como, Italy
The beautiful Botanic Gardens at the Villa Carlotta, Lake Como, Italy. Built at the end of 17th century by the Milanese Marquis Giorgio Clerici. Date: 1918

Migrant Hawker (lower), Brown Hawker (upper)
Watercolour on vellum, c.late 17th century Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750). From the collection of Insect paintings by Dutch Artists 17th-19th Century. Held in the Library and Archives

Cerura vinula, puss moth
Watercolour on paper, c.1831 by Elizabeth Davy (d.1836). From the Elizabeth Davy collection of Butterflies & moths. Held in the Library and Archives Date: circa 1831

Aquilegia vulgaris, Columbine
Ink drawing by Arthur Harry Church, 1903 Date: 1903

Glasgow, Scotland - Various sights of the city: Kelvin Hall and Kelvin Bridge, Kelvingrove Park, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum (centre), the Great Western Road and the Botanic Gardens

Man o War Steps, Sydney, Australia - the only known remains of Macquarie-era harbour works still in existence in Sydney Harbour. Date: 1909

Tbilisi, Georgia, Panorama with Botanic Gardens and Fortress
Tbilisi (Tiflis), Georgia, Panorama with Botanic Gardens, Fortress and the Mtkvari River

The Palm House, Botanic Gardens, Belfast - a view down a path to the Palm House on the left. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast). Date: circa early 1900s

Belfast Museum, Stranmillis Rd. Belfast - An oblique front view of the Belfast Museum and Art Gallery on the edge of Botanic Park

Lord Kelvins Statue, Botanic Park, Belfast - a view of a monument in the park. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast). Date: circa early 1900s

Botanic Park, Belfast - a distant view of the Palm house. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast). Date: circa early 1900s

Lake in Botanic Park, Belfast - a view of the lake and retouched swan. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast). Date: circa early 1900s

Conservatory, Botanic Park, Belfast - a view of the Palm house with a flowerbed in the foreground. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast). Date: circa early 1900s

Entrance to Botanic Park and Stranmillis Rd. Belfast - an elevated view of the park entrance with people and tram and view of Stranmillis road. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast)

In Botanic Gardens, Belfast - a view through the park to the Palm House. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast). Date: circa early 1900s

Vilvoorde, Belgium - Botanical Gardens
Vilvoorde (Vilvorde), Belgium - State School of Horticulture, within the Vilvoorde Botanical Gardens circa 1910s

Botanic Gardens Park, Belfast - a view of the Palm house and people. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast). Date: circa early 1900s

Miguel Colmeiro Penido (1816-1901). Engraving. Colored
Miguel Colmeiro Penido (1816-1901). Spanish botanist. Engraving by Arturo Carretero. The Spanish and American Illustration, 1880. Colored

Royal Botanic Gardens, Regents Park, London
Fellows Room and Enclosure, Royal Botanic Gardens, Regents Park, London. circa 1910

Royal Botanic Society exhibition, Regents Park, London
Scene at the Royal Botanic Society exhibition in Regents Park, London. Date: 1854

American plants, Royal Botanic Society, Regents Park
A display of American plants at the Royal Botanic Society grounds in Regents Park, London. Date: 1850

Lychnis coronata
Watercolour on paper, 1777 by Getrude Metz (1746-1793). Held in the Library and Archives Date: 1777

Sparmannia discolor by Matilda Smith
Graphite on paper, 1880s by Matilda Smith (1854-1926). Held in the Library and Archives

Zephyranthes atamasco, amaryllis
Watercolour on paper, c.1770-1796 by Mary Moser (1744-1819). Held in the Library and Archives

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