Buttercup Collection

Book cover, Wayside and Woodland Blossoms, A Pocket Guide to British Wild Flowers, by Edward Step FLS, with colour plates by Mabel E Step. Date: late 19th century

Garden varieties of the Persian buttercup, Ranunculus asiaticus. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs

Original Artwork - Painted flowers - Game counters
Original Artwork - painted flowers - counters for a game design, My Flower Day. Date: circa 1937

Dog s-tooth violet and moth
Dog s-tooth-violet or dogtooth violet, Erythronium dens-canis, and moth. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Daniel Rabel after a botanical illustration by Maria Sibylla Merian from Pierre Joseph

Bayberry, Morella pubescens
Bayberry, bay-rum tree, candleberry, sweet gale or wax-myrtle, Morella pubescens. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

HMS Pinafore, Little Buttercup mixes up the children
HMS Pinafore. Little Buttercup explains that when she was baby-farming (nursing babies while their Papas and Mamas were travelling), she mixed up baby Captain Corcoran and baby Ralph Rackstraw

HMS Pinafore, Corcoran presents Little Buttercup
HMS Pinafore. Corcoran presented blushing Little Buttercup to Sir Joseph, who gave her sixpence on the spot. Date: 1908

HMS Pinafore, Little Buttercup and the captain
HMS Pinafore. Little Buttercup and Captain Corcoran. Date: 1908

HMS Pinafore, crew and Little Buttercup
HMS Pinafore. The ships crew with Little Buttercup. I know who takes sugar-plums to bed with him. Date: 1908

Cape buttercup, Sparaxis elegans (Copper-coloured streptanthera, Streptanthera cuprea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after Edwin Dalton Smith from John Lindley

Upright meadow crowfoot, Ranunculus acris. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1799

Smallflower buttercup, Ranunculus parviflorus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smiths English Botany, London, 1793

Persian buttercup, Ranunculus asiaticus (Ranunculo sexto). Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattiolis Discorsi di P.A

Varieties of crowfoot, Ranunculus sylvestris and Ranunculus sylvestris luteus. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Varieties of crowfoot, Ranunculus urens and Ranunculus dulcis. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Varieties of crowfoot, Ranunculus multiplex and Ranunculus minor. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Lesser celandine or pilewort, Ficaria verna, Ficaria ranunculoides, Ficaire fauss renoncule. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lebrun after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar

St. Anthonys turnip or bulbous buttercup, Ranunculus bulbosus. Handcoloured lithograph by Henry Sowerby after an illustration by A.E. from Edward Hamiltons Flora Homeopathica, Bailliere, London, 1852

Persian buttercup and Chinese indigo
Persian buttercup, Ranunculus asiaticus 1, and Chinese indigo, Persicaria tinctoria 2. Renoncule, Renouee. Handcoloured steel engraving from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Menevilles Dictionnaire Pittoresque d

Striped buttercup variety, Potentilla formosa, Potentilla striata formosissima. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Buttercup, Ranunculus spicatus. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l Europe, Ghent

Double ranunculus varieties, Persian buttercup, Ranunculus asiaticus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtis Lectures

Persian buttercup hybrid Harlequin, Ranunculus asiaticus
La Renoncule semdouble des Jardins conue sous le nom d Arlequine. Persian buttercup hybrid Harlequin, Ranunculus asiaticus

Clasping buttercup, Ranunculus amplexicaulis
Clasping buttercup or plantain-leaved crowfoot, Ranunculus amplexicaulis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from William Curtis Botanical Magazine, London, 1794

Cursed buttercup and mezereon
Cursed buttercup, Ranunculus sceleratus 1, and mezereon, Daphne mezereum 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children)

Buttercup Time by Peggy Earnshaw
Buttercup Time. 1937

DO YOU LIKE BUTTER ?
It is popularly believed that you can tell if someone likes butter by holding a buttercup beneath their chin : if they do, the buttercup will reflect yellow : due to shiny skin ? Date: circa 1900

RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS
BUTTERCUP Date: early 20th century

The mountains of Snowdonia
A field full of buttercups and grasses just outside Harlech, north Wales. The mountains of the Snowdonia National Park are on the horizon Date: 2019

Cow suckling lamb
Buttercup the cow suckles one of ten motherless lambs which she is nurturing. Date: late 1960s

Daisies and buttercups in a basket on a cutout card
Daisies and buttercups in a basket on a cutout greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Fairy, buttercup and bee -- Do you love butter? Date: early 20th century

Daisies and buttercups on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Assorted flowers on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

New Year card in the form of a fan, decorated with yellow flowers and pink ribbon. Date: circa 1890s

Persian buttercups and honeysuckles, Ranonculus asiaticus and Lonicera periclymenum.. Handcolored stipple engraving from Le Jardinier Fleuriste, Dedie aus Dames par un Amateur Chez Marcilly, Paris

Buttercup in art nouveau patterns.. Lithograph with pochoir (stencil) handcoloring from Eugene Grassets Plants and their Application to Ornament, Paris, 1897

Buttercup botanical study.. Lithograph with pochoir (stencil) handcoloring from Eugene Grassets Plants and their Application to Ornament, Paris, 1897

Grass-leaved crowfoot or buttercup, Ranunculus gramineus.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration from William Curtiss Botanical Magazine, Lambeth, London, 1789

Ranunculus glacialis
Botanical illustration of Ranunculus glacialis Date: 1896

Botanical Sketchbook -- Buttercup. Date: 1920s

Design for Wallpaper in yellow, green and grey

Design for Printed Textile in blue and yellow. Gouache on heavy paper. Silver Studio. 1902

Ranunculus biternatus, antarctic buttercup
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771. Illustration annotated Ranunculus flaccidus

Misumena vatia, flower spider
Female flower spiders can adapt their colour to match the flowers they hide on in order to ambush their prey

Ranunculus sp. buttercup
Illustration from Full Directions for the Young Artist (1817) by George Brookshaw. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Ranunculus asiaticus, Persian buttercup
Folio 51 from A Collection of Flowers (1795) by John Edwards. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Ranunculus asiaticus (flower) Aesculus pavia (fruit) Viburnu
Sketch 254 from the Ehret Collection of Sketches (unbound) by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

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