Citrus Collection

Orangier des Gcnes, Arancio di Genova
Tab. 8 from Histoire naturelle des Orangers 1818-1820, by Antoine Risso (1777-1845)

Citrus sinensis, sweet orange

Cirtus paradisi, grapefruit
Tab 65 from Histoire naturelle des Orangers 1818-1820 by Antoine Risso. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. This illustration is entitled Pompelmouse chadec

Limonier sauvage, Limone sylvatico
Tab. 70 from Histoire naturelle des Orangers 1818-1820, by Antoine Risso (1777-1845)

A fine ripe Pomelo, peeled and cut ornamentally for table
Watercolour by Olivia Fanny Tonge 1858-1949. 180 x 260mm. From one of sixteen sketchbooks presented to the Museum in 1952

Melissa officinalis, lemon balm
A painting from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Orange de Malte, Maltese blood orange
Tab 13 from Histoire Naturelle des Orangers 1818 by Antoine Risso (1777-1845). Picture shows a close-up of the whole orange

Lemon tree and fruit, Citrus limon (Citrus limonum). Chromolithograph by E. Gunther after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler

Orange, citron, fig and almond
Fruits including citron, Citrus medica 1, 2, bitter orange, Citrus aurantium 3, sweet or Chinese orange, Citrus sinensis 4, fig, Ficus carica 5, and almond, Prunus amygdalus 6

Tilia alba
Illustration from Plantarum rariorum Horti Csarei Schoenbrunnensis descriptiones et icones, 1797/98, by Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Citrus medica, lime
Illustrations of various lime varieties (Citrus medica), Pati Limoo; Hakagi Limoo; Gora Limoo; Chaen-gori Limoo; Kumural Limoo; Nature of Runjhore; Tablha Limoo

Cirtus paradisi, grapefruit
Tab 66 from Histoire naturelle des Orangers 1818-1820 by Antoine Risso. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. This illustration is entitled Pompelmouse chadec

Bergamot lemon, Citrus limon (Citrus bergamia). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Fruit Label --s Musmeci Costa, Messina, Sicily, exporters of citrus fruit and vegetables. Depicting two lions and an array of medals. Date: 20th century

Advertorial postcard for Hartleys Orange Marmalade
An appealing (!) advertorial postcard for Hartleys Orange Marmalade Date: circa 1910

Citrus paradisi, grapefruit
Tab 61 from Histoire naturelle des Orangers 1818-1820 by Antoine Risso. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. This illustration is entitled Pompelmouse pompoleon

Limone, Lake Garda, Italy
Limone sul Garda is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy (northern Italy), on the shore of Lake Garda

In A Murcian Garden
A vivid watercolour painting of a Murcian garden, including various citrus fruit trees, with confiers and a palm tree upon a tidy lawn. Date: circa 1920

Comic postcard, Lemons and squeezer Date: 20th century

Sweet orange, Citrus x aurantium. Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896

Royles balsam, Impatiens roylei. Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896

Tucuma and pomelo fruit
Tucuma or avoira palm nuts, Astrocaryum aculeatum, and pomelo or shaddock apple, Citrus maxima. Copperplate engraving after an original illustration by Captain John Gabriel Stedman from his Narrative

Lemon, Citrus medica. Handcoloured woodblock engravings from James Mains Popular Botany, Orr and Smith, London, 1835. James Main (1775-1846) was a Scottish gardener, botanist and writer

Orange tree and fruit, Citrus aurantium (Citrus vulgaris). Chromolithograph by E. Gunther after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst

Bergamot orange, Citrus bergamia. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

Citrus fruits, fruits du genre citrus. Lemon, Citrus limonum 1, 4, orange, Citrus aurantium 2, citron, Citrus medica 3, and Majorca orange, Citrus aurantium 5

Orange tree, Citrus aurantium. 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

Exotic beetles including vulnerable rosalia alpina
Longhorn beetles: Sternotomis mirabilis 1, Prosopocera bipunctata 2, Polyrhaphis spinosa 3, citrus long-horned beetle, Anoplophora chinensis 4, and vulnerable rosalia longicorn, Rosalia alpina 5

Lemon, Citrus limonum. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Citron or cedrat, Citrus medica. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Bitter orange or Seville orange, Citrus aurantium. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Bitter orange, Citrus aurantium
Bitter orange or Seville orange, Citrus aurantium (Citrus vulgaris). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley

Orange, Citrus x aurantium. Orange, Citrus x aurantium
Citrus x aurantium Citrus vulgaris Risso). Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Lemon, Citrus limon (Citrus limonium Risso). Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Fruit Box Label, Victoria Brand California Oranges. 19th century

Cymbopogon citratus, lemon grass
Plate 998 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Greetings card in the shape of a lemon. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Citrus trees in a hothouse. Engraving by Filippo Gagliardi, from Giovanni Battista Ferrari, Hesperides: sive, De malorum aureorum cultura et usu libri quator. Plate / Page 457. Date: 1646

Nyssa ogeche, ogeechee lime & Crataegus sp. hawthorn
Drawing 35 (Ewan 4) from the Botanical and zoological drawings (1756-1788) by William Bartram. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Citrus bergamia, bergamia orange
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Acrocinus longimanus, harlequin beetle and Citrus medica, et

Cote d Azur, France - basket of fresh oranges. Date: 1910s

Colourful arrangement of fruit on a log, including a pineapple, bananas, grapes, apples, oranges and lemons. Date: circa 1960s

Label design, Crown Jewel citrus fruit, Florida, USA
Label design, Crown Jewel citrus fruit, Lake Wales, Polk County, Florida, USA, Citrus Growers Association. circa early 20th century

Label design, Prince of Wales Citrus Fruit, Lake Wales Citrus Growers Association, Florida, USA. early 20th century

Fruit / Lemon
Two lemons still attached to their flowering plant stem. Date: mid 19th century

Study of Orange and Lemon Trees in an Ancient Convent Garden, Florence, Italy. Date: 1905

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

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