Botanical Illustration Collection

Gossypium barbadense, cotton plant
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Cephalotus follicularis, Australian pitcher plant
An illustration by Ferdinand Bauer of an Australian pitcher plant, one of the few plants capable of trapping and digesting insects

Vegetable plants
Plate 10 from Le Regne Vegetal, Vol 12, Hort. Atlas (1870). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. Entitled Plantes potagerea

Humboldt and his party collecting plant
Specimens at the foot of Mount Chimborazo. Detail from Plate 25 Voyage aux Regions Equinoxiales by Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859)

Cephalotus follicularis, Australian pitcher plant
Plate 42 from Botanical Drawings from Australia (1801) by Ferdinand L Bauer (1760-1826)

Sesamum indicum, sesame plant
Illustration from the Botany Library held at the Natural History Museum, London

Stylidium scandens, climbing trigger plant
Plate 82 from Botanical Drawings from Australia (1801) by Ferdinand L Bauer (1760-1826)

Oenothera parviflora L. & Oenothera biennis L
Northern evening-primrose and common evening-primrose by John Miller, first published in Figures of the most beautiful, useful

Plant Illustration
Plate 916 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Nothochloena marantoe
Penfold, Jane Wallas, 1845. Madeira Flowers, Fruits and Ferns. London: Reeve Brothers. Plate 4

Lawsonia inermis, henna plant
Illustration number 86 from the Feilding Collection held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Theobroma cacao, cocoa plant
Plate 178 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Myrmecodia beccarii, anthouse plant
Finished watercolour by John Frederick Miller from an outline drawing by Sydney Parkinson, made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

Acrostichum squamosum
Penfold, Jane Wallas, 1845. Madeira Flowers, Fruits and Ferns. London: Reeve Brothers. Plate 8

Adiantum reniforme and A. capillus-veneris
Penfold, Jane Wallas, 1845. Madeira Flowers, Fruits and Ferns. London: Reeve Brothers. Plate 12

Asplenium palmatum
Penfold, Jane Wallas, 1845. Madeira Flowers, Fruits and Ferns. London: Reeve Brothers. Plate 16

Trapa natans, var. bispinosa
Image of trapa natans var. bispinosa in Plants of the Coast of Coromandel by W. Roxburgh

Snake and plant design
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Bulbous plants
Plate 22 from Le Regne Vegetal, Vol 12, Hort. Atlas (1870). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. Entitled Plantes bulbeuses

Leaves and plant
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Sarracenia flava, yellow pitcher plant & Sarracenia purpurea
Nelumbo lutea, American lotus & Triodopsis albolabris, land snail & Cemophora coccinea, scarlet snake. Drawing 30 (Ewan 22) from the Botanical and zoological drawings (1756-1788) by William Bartram

Fossil and plant illustration
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Plant design
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Cordyline fruticosa, ti plant
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771. Illustration annotated Dracaena terminalis

Nepenthes mirabilis, common swamp pitcher plant
Plate 785 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

New Methods of Plants 1682
Book plate from Methodus Plantarum Nova in which John Ray published his natural system of plant classification

Plants used as food
Illustration of arrowroot, manioc or cassava, yam and sweet potato. Plate 9 from Vegetable Kingdom 1872, by William Rhind

Plants for salads

Strelitzia reginae, Queen plant
Illustration from The Temple of Flora (1812) by Dr Robert John Thornton (1768-1837)

Ricinus communis, castor bean plant
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Plant design for museum architecture
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Althaea officinalis, marsh mallow plant

Insects, plants & shells against landscape

Dictamnus fraxinella, gas plant
Watercolour by Arthur Harry Church, 1904. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Manihot esculenta, cassava plant
Illustration from Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705) by Maria Sybilla Merian

Composite Plant illustration
An illustration of a composite plant - an imaginary plant created to demonstrate various plant parts - by PJF Turpin in Oeuvres d Histoire Naturelle de Goethe, by CF Martin, 1837

Musschia auret dumort, Golden Musschia
A watercolour painting of the plant Musschia aurea dumort, from South Africa. Painted by Francis Masson

Clethra arborea soland, lily of the valley tree
A watercolour painting of the plant Clethra arborea Soland, from Madeira. Painted by Francis Masson

Bromelia anticantha
Watercolour by Margaret Ursula Mee, c. 1958. Mees name will be forever associated with her interest in conserving the Amazon rainforests

Proboscides louisianica (Miller), unicorn plant
Drawing by J.S. Miller [pl. 286]. Image used in The Chelsea Gardener Philip Miller (1990) by Hazel Le Rougetel, page 145

Watsonia meriana L. bulbillifera
Drawing by John Miller, first published in Figures of the most beautiful, useful, and uncommon Plants described in the Gardeners Dictionary (1755-60) by Philip Miller

Fucus crispus, kelp
Plate 217 from Fuci, or coloured figures and descriptions of the Plants referred by botanists to the genus Fucus (1808-1819), Volume III, by Mary Dawson Turner

Fucus saccatus, kelp
Plate 241 from Fuci, or coloured figures and descriptions of the Plants referred by botanists to the genus Fucus (1808-1819), Volume III, by Mary Dawson Turner

Plant Illustration
Plate 470 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Perilla frutescens, beef steak plant
Plate from Thesaurus Zeylanicus (1737) by J. Burman, of Type Specimens of plants named by Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)

Dictamnus albus (fraxinella), gas plant
Folio 74 from A Collection of Flowers (1795) by John Edwards. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Annuals and biannual plants

Plants design
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

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