Downy Collection

Scottish Pine Forest poster with captions by Barbara Nicholson made for a printed wallchart. Signed B.EN, wallchart EB13, printed by Westerham Press, England

Picoides pubescens, downy woodpecker
Plate 112 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

Downy rattlesnake plantain orchid, Goodyera pubescens. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Regulus regulus, goldcrest nest and eggs
Plate 66 from James Boltons third edition of Harmonia Ruralis: or an essay towards a natural history of British Song Birds, Vol.2, (1845)

Japanese bindweed, Calystegia pubescens
Japanese bindweed or downy bindweed, Calystegia pubescens. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Miss Sarah Drake from John Lindley and Robert Sweets Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery, G

Downy wattle, Acacia pubescens (vulnerable)
Downy wattle, Acacia pubescens, vulnerable (Hairy-stemmed mimosa, Mimosa pubescens). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom Jr

Hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker and red-bellied
Hairy woodpecker, Dryobates villosus, male 1, downy woodpecker, Dryobates pubescens, male 2 and female 3, and red-bellied woodpecker, Melanerpes carolinus, male 4

Downy leaved birthwort, Aristolochia tomentosa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis The Botanical Magazine, London, 1811

Orchard oriole, Icterus spurius, males 1, 2, and female 3. Chromolithograph after an ornithological illustration by John James Audubon from Benjamin Harry Warrens Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania

Downy woodpecker, Dryobates pubescens. Chromolithograph after an illustration by Edwin Sheppard from Thomas George Gentrys Nests and Eggs of the Birds of the United States, J.A

Eastern towhee, Pipilo erythrophthalmus
Nest and eggs of the eastern towhee, Pipilo erythrophthalmus. Chromolithograph after an illustration by Edwin Sheppard from Thomas George Gentrys Nests and Eggs of the Birds of the United States

Downy yellow violet, Viola pubescens. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by Edward Dalton Smith from Robert Sweets The British Flower Garden, Ridgeway

Downy emerald dragonfly, Cordulia aenea (Metallic dragonfly, Libellula aenea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare

Thongweed, Himanthalia elongata (Downy fucus, Fucus tomentosus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1800

Lobelia species
Refulgent lobelia, Lobelia fulgens, showy lobelia, L. speciosa, red-leaved lobelia, L. colorata, and downy lobelia, L. puberula

Sunflower or Helianthus species
Downy sunflower, Helianthus pubescens, ten-petaled sunflower, Helianthus decapetalus, and showy sunflower, Helianthus speciosus

Violet species
Fan-leaved violet, Viola flabellifolia, tree violet, Viola palmaensis, hooded violet, Viola cucullata, palmate-leaved violet, Viola palmata, downy violet, Viola pubescens, altaian violet

Common horehound, Marrubium vulgare, and downy woundwort, Stachys germanica. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Downy spiraea, Spiraea pubescens. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Edwards Botanical Register, edited by John Lindley, London

Downy bindweed, Calystegia pubescens. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Edwards Botanical Register, edited by John Lindley, London

Downy wattle or pubescent acacia, Acacia pubescens. Endangered.Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by Miss Jane Taylor from Benjamin Maund and the Rev

Limonium puberulum (Downy statice, Statice puberula). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration from Benjamin Maund and the Rev

Downy birch or white birch, Betula alba. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Downy hemp-nettle, Galeopsis segetum (Galeopsis ochroleuca). Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Curtis British Entomology Plate 625
Hemiptera: Livilla ulicis Curtis [Plant: Helictotrichon pubescens (Avena or Trisetum pubescens, Downy Oat-grass)] Date: 1824-39

Animals at a French Zoo - Cashmere goat - Long haired goat. Part of Box 209 Boswell collection - Old and New French Zoo. A cashmere goat is any breed of goat that produces cashmere wool

Goodyera pubescens, rattlesnake orchid - Illustration from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840)

Downy Woundwort, Stachys germanica
Plate 83/11, illustration of Downy Woundwort from Deutschlands Flora (1841) by Jacob Sturm (1771-1848). Date: 1841

Long-billed black cockatoo
Plate 6 from Edward Lears Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae or Parrots (1832). Hand coloured lithograph. Date: 1832

Broad downy-leaved terminalia or tropical almond tree, . Illustration drawn by William Jackson Hooker, engraved by Swan. Handcolored copperplate engraving from William Curtiss The Botanical Magazine

Angular-leaved downy naranjilla, with attractive deep green and purple foliage, Solanum quitense.. Illustration by WJ Hooker, engraved by Swan

Helianthus mollis, downy sunflower
Illustration by Frederick Polydore Nodder, 1776. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Christella dentata, downy wood fern
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771. Illustration annotated Polypodium thelypteris

Picoides villosus, Picoides tridactylus, Picoides pubescens
Plate 417 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

Joys of To-Day
Humorous illustration depicting a soldier home on leave during World War I delighted to be able to sink into a clean, comfortable downy bed

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