Cornus Collection

Paul Cornus helicopter of 1907. Date: 1907

Bird of paradise flower, Strelitzia reginae
Crane flower or bird of paradise flower, Strelitzia reginae, Strelitzia della Regina. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Cornelian cherry, Cornus mas (Corniolo). Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattiolis Discorsi di P.A

Elder tree, Sambucus palustris, and dogwood, Cornus species? Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Benthams cornel, Cornus capitata
Benthams cornel or Himalayan flowering dogwood, Cornus capitata (Benthamia fragifera). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens

Wild cornel tree or dogwood, Cornus sanguinea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman

Flowering dogwood or boxwood, Cornus florida. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Curtis British Entomology Plate 505
Diptera: Platystoma seminationis (Spotted Flat-headed Fly) [Plant: Cornus sanguinea (Dog-berry or Cornel Tree)] Date: 1824-39

Cornelian cherry Cornus mascula Austrian cherry with fruit on the branch.. Illustration by Miss C. Curtis (Samuels daughter), engraved by Weddell

Cornus capitata, dogwood
One of the 162 decorative panels depicting flora that form the ceiling of the Central Hall at the Natural History Museum, London

Catharus fuscescens, veery
Plate 164 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Hylocichla mustelina, wood thrush
Plate 73 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Passerina caerulea, blue grosbeak
Plate 122 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Melospiza lincolnii, Lincolns sparrow
Plate 193 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Piscidia piscipula, Jamaican dogwood
Specimen from the Sir Hans Sloane Jamaican Botanical Collection, held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Zonotrichia albicollis, white-throated sparrow
Plate 8 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved by W.H. Lizars, Edinburgh, retouched by R. Havell & Son, London

Columba fasciata, band-tailed pigeon
Plate 367 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Cornus Kousa (Japanese Flowering Dogwood)
Cornus Kousa or Benthamidia Kousa (Japanese Flowering Dogwood), a hardy shrub or small tree from Japan and Korea, of the Cornaceae family. Seen here bearing bright red berries, which are edible

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