Fabidae Collection (page 3)

Rosa gallica regalis, Royal Highness provins rose
Painting by Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840) from Les Roses Vol. 1, 1817. Illustration entitled Rosier Grandeur Royale

Rosa damascena celsiana, Celss rose
Painting by Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840) from Les Roses Vol. 1, 1817. Illustration entitled Rosier de Cels

Viola tricolor, pansy
Painting by Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840), from his publication Choix des plus belles fleurs (The Most Beautiful Flowers), c. 1827-33. Illustration entitled Bouquet de Pensees

Ficus benghalensis and squirrel
Bodycolour and watercolour on board, c. 1779. Unknown artist commissined by Mrs Wheler (fl.1780s). Held in the Library and Archives Date: circa 1779

Rose, primula, Narcissus, Fritillaria
Ink & wash on paper, c. 1820 by Lucy Hardcastle (1771-c.1835). Held in the Library and Archives Date: circa 1820

White poplar
Watercolour on paper by Florence Helen Woolward (1854-1936). Held in the Library and Archives

Pseudocolocynthis pomiformis by Basil Besler
Pseudocolocynthis pomiformis from Hortus Eystettensis by Basil Besler

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

Fossil Holothurian or sea cucumber
Staurocystis quadrifasciata, 6.5 cm long, from the Silurian, Wenlock Limestone of Dudley in Worcestershire, England

Nothofagus betuloides
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771. Illustration annotated Betula antarctica

Crystal apple - cystoid echinoderm
NHM E10. Echinosphaerites aurantium (Gyllenhall). Ordovicain, Popouka, St Petersburg, Russia

Ficus scabra
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

Prunus sp. (6) early purple peach (7) large peach
Illustration from Pomona Franconica (1776-1801) by Johann Mayer of Wurzburg. Entitled Pourpree hative, Grosse Mignorie. Imacon Color Scanner

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

Eucalyptus obliqua, Australian oak holotype specimen

Oxalis filifolia
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

Hans Sloane Vol. 211 page 29
Viola violacea Makino, Oxalis corniculata and Trachelospermum asiaticum Nakai. Specimens taken from Hans Sloane Vol.211 page 29

The Wellington Tree Cupboard
This tree was made from an elm tree that sheltered the Duke of Wellington during the Battle of Waterloo, in Belgium

Quercus, pollard oak
Plate 22 from The Shape, Skeleton and Foliage of Thirty two species of Trees, 1786 by A. Cozens. The series was originally issued in 1771

Cannabis sativa, hemp
Illustration of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa), by James Kerr (1738-1782). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Plate 48 from Mineralogie
Mine d Or granuleuse avec du Spath perle couleur de Rose. From Recuille complet de Mineralogie? vol.6 (1790) by F.L. Swebach Desfontaines

Malus sp. apple
Plate 11 from Pomona Franconica, Vol 3 (1801) by Johann Mayer of Wurzburg. Entitled Calville rouge d Automne

Nelumbo lutea, American lotus & Dionaea muscipula, venus fly

Three varieties of cherries
Plate 13 from Pomona Britannica (1812) by George Brookshaw. Top: morello cherry (Prunus cerasus), centre: caroon cherry (Prunus sp.), bottom: unnamed (Prunus sp.)

Crataegus monogyna, oneseed hawthorn
Drawing 58/2b made in 1903 by Arthur Harry Church (1865-1937). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

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

Cereus napoleonis, strawberry-pear
Plate 12 from Endlichers paradisus vindobonesis (1844-1860) by Anton Hartinger. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Sitta pusila, brown-headed nuthatch, Sitta carolinensis, whi
Plate 22, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby

Ulmus procera, elm
Plate 11 from The Shape, Skeleton and Foliage of Thirty two species of Trees, 1786 by A. Cozens. Originally issued in 1771

Asimina obovata, pawpaw apple
William Bartrams botanical specimens which he named Anona grandiflora, pawpaw apple. Bartram collected these during his expedition through the southern colonies for Dr. John Fothergill

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

Passiflora sp. passion flower
Page 74 from Illustration of the Sexual System of Linneaus (1779) vol 2, by John Miller (1715-c. 1790)

Hypericum perforatum, St. Johns wort
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Alder fly in Baltic amber
Alder fly, Megaloptera: Sialoidea in Baltic amber. Specimen dates from the Upper Eocene

Passifloreae
Plate 105 from The Chief Natural Orders of Plants (1849). Illustrated and described by Elizabeth Twining (1805-1889)

Ara severus, chestnut-fronted maccaw
Plate 229, hand coloured copperplate etching from George Edwards The Gleanings of Natural History, Vol. 1 (1758)

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

Rubus cuneifolius, blackberry
Sketch 23 (66 Drawings Volume). From a collection of original drawings and sketches by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Crataegus phaenopyrum (L. f. ), Washington hawthorn
Sketch 19 (66 Drawings Volume). From a collection of original drawings and sketches by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Rosa sp. wild rose
Close-up of a wild rose (Rosa sp.) flower growing in the Wildlife Garden at the Natural History Museum, London. Photographed by Derek Adams, May 2003

A7 / 361a Ficus racemosa, fig
Finished watercolour by F. P. Nodder from an original outline drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Cooks first voyage, 1768-1771

Euselates sp. rose chafer beetle
A colourful rose chafer beetle photographed in Sri Lanka. Chafer beetles have a characteristic V-shape where their wings meet and are a member of the same family as dung beetles

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

Pyrus indica, Indian pear
One of the 162 decorative panels depicting flora that form the ceiling of the Central Hall at the Natural History Museum, London

Rose
Plate 3 from Flowers by J Edwards, 1795

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