European Plum Collection

Psittacula cyanocephala, plum-headed parakeet
Plate 6, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Prunus sp. plum
Plate 13 from Pomona Franconica, Vol 3 (1801) by Johann Mayer of Wurzburg. Entitled La prune sans Noyau

Prunus sp. peaches and plums
18th century watercolour drawing by by Maria van Huysum. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Prunus sp. plum (The Imperatrice Plum)
Plate 4 from Pomona Londinensis (1818) by William Hooker. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Prunus domestica, plum
One of the 162 decorative panels depicting flora that form the ceiling of the Central Hall of the Natural History Museum, London

The Plum
Three varieties of the Plum, the upper is the Precos De Tours, on the left is the Lawrances Early Plum and on the right is the Orleans. Plate 11 from Brookshaw, G. (1817)

Prunus domestica, plum tree
Illustration from Full Instructions for the Young Artist (1817) by George Brookshaw

Ammodramus henslowii, Henslows sparrow
Plate 70 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

Malacosoma castrense, plum lackey moth
An illustration of a plum lackey moth with a common bullace plum tree (Prunus insititia) by John Abbot

Prunus sp. plum (The Nectarine Plum)
Plate 39 from Pomona Londinensis (1818) by William Hooker. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Prunus sp. plum (Catherine Plum)
Plate 24 from Pomona Londinensis (1818) by William Hooker. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Prunus sp. plum (Coes Golden Drop Plum)
Plate 14 from Pomona Londinensis (1818) by William Hooker. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Prunus sp. plum (The Green Gage Plum)
Plate 38 from Pomona Londinensis (1818) by William Hooker. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Prunus sp. plum (La Royale Plum)
Plate 47 from Pomona Londinensis (1818) by William Hooker. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Diospyros lotus, date plum
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

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