Fabales Collection

Emberiza calandra, corn bunting
Plate 26 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Acacia nilotica, prickly acacia tree
Finished watercolour by Fred Polydore Nodder from an original outline drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

Tragopan melanocephala, western tragopan
Plate 23 by Joseph Wolf from Daniel Giraud Elliots A Monograph of the Phasianid, or Family of the Pheasants, (1872)

Gracula religiosa indica, lesser hill myna
Plate 73, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Indigofera tinctora, indigo
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Arachide hypogee, peanut
Plate 267 from Flore pittoresque et medicale (1827) Vol. 4 by Michel Etienne Descourtilz (1775-1835)

Trifolium pratensis, clover
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Medicago sativa, alfalfa
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Clitoria ternatea Linn. butterfly pea
From the Botanical Collection of Indian Drawings. Artist unknown. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Tragopan satyra, satyr tragopan
Plate 49 from John Goulds The Birds of Asia, Vol. 7, (1850-83). Hand coloured lithograph

Acacia dealbata, mimosa or silver wattle
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Phasianus colchicus sahwii, common (Yarkand) pheasant
Plate 53 by Joseph Wolf from Daniel Giraud Elliots A Monograph of the Phasianid, or Family of the Pheasants, (1872)

Moreton Bay chestnut seed pod
Castanospermum australe, Moreton Bay chestnut seed pod collected in Queensland, Australia in 1909 Date: 1909

Wild Sports of South Africa, William Harris
Title page to William Harriss collection of drawings from 1839. Date: 1839

Mucuna with insects in different life stages
Hand-coloured engraving based on Maria Sibylla Merian watercolour. From Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, 1726 edition. Date: 1726

Trifolium montanum, mountain clover
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Gracula religiosa, hill myna
Plate 71, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Lens esculenta, lentil
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Physostigma venenosum, calabar bean
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Gallus gallus, red junglefowl
Plate 32, a watercolour by Joseph Wolf from Daniel G. Elliots A Monograph of the Phasianid, or Family of the Pheasants, (1872)

The Furze Platt Hand Axe
The Furze Platt hand axe from the Acheulian culture (Lower Palaeolithic) about 400, 000 years ago. Found in Britain in 1919 the hand axe weighs 2.8 kilos and is 30.6 cm long

Phasianus colchicus elegans, common pheasant
Plate 58 by Joseph Wolf from Daniel Giraud Elliots A Monograph of the Phasianid, or Family of the Pheasants, (1872)

Phasianus colchicus shawii, common pheasant
Plate 51 by Joseph Wolf from Daniel Giraud Elliots A Monograph of the Phasianid, or Family of the Pheasants, (1872)

Pithecellobium circinale
Watercolour by Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822) Date: 1822

Polygala amara (rev. amarella), dwarf milkwort
Illustration of Polygala amara from Flora Monacensis (1811) by Franz von Paula Schrank (1747-1835). Date: 1811

Mimosa leucacantha
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

Nelumbo lutea, American lotus & Dionaea muscipula, venus fly

Lophura ignita macartneyi, Tragopan melanocephalus
Plate 70, lithograph by K.I. Brodtmann from Heinrich Rudolf Schinzs Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der V� -Gattungen, (1831-1833)

Senna italica, Italian senna
Illustration of Italian senna from the John Fleming Collection, held at the Natural History Museum, London

Caesalpinia sappan, Indian redwood

Saxicola rubetra, whinchat, Saxicola torquata, common stonec
Plate 7 from Archibald Thorburns second edtition of British Birds, Vol. 1 (1925)

Sarracenia flava, yellow pitcher plant & Sarracenia purpurea
Nelumbo lutea, American lotus & Triodopsis albolabris, land snail & Cemophora coccinea, scarlet snake. Drawing 30 (Ewan 22) from the Botanical and zoological drawings (1756-1788) by William Bartram

Cassia fistula, canafitula
The purging cassia or pudding pipe tree, is native to warmer regions of the world. The drug senna is prepared from its pods. The matrix in which its seeds are embedded also has laxative properties

Lophura nycthemera, silver pheasant
Large Series plate 51, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Mucuna gigantea, sea bean

Trifolium sp. & Meliotus sp. clover
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Sylvia undata, Dartford warbler
Plate 59 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 2 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Nelumbo nucifera, sacred lotus
Plate 45 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Hardenbergia violacea, purple coral pea
Finished watercolour by Fred Polydore Nodder from an original outine drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

Vandasia retusa
Finished watercolour by Fred Polydore Nodder from an original outine drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

Lotus corniculatus, birds foot trefoil
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Dolichos soja, soybean
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Tragopan temminckii, Temmincks tragopan
Large Series plate 56, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China. The plant is Gentiana sp

Gallus gallus, red junglefowl
Large Series plate 39, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Ducula pacifica, Pacific imperial pigeon
Ff. 139. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Columba globicera and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Glycyrrhiza echinata, liquorice
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Trifolium sp. clover
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Glycyrrhiza glabra, liquorice
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

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