Flowers Collection (page 10)

Vanda caerulea, Himalayan orchid
Illustration from the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. This plant was thought to be extinct in 1996

Rhexia speciosa
Plate 4 from Voyage aux Regions Equinoniales (1806) Pt V1, Botanique, Sect 2, by Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt and Aime Jacques Alexandre Bonpland

Cymbidium aloifolium, orchid
Plate 869 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library 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)

Allium cepa, onion
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

LS Plate 2 from the John Reeves Collection
Large Series plate 2, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

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

Mimus polyglottos, northern mockingbird
Plate 27, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby

Calycanthus floridus, Eastern sweetshrub
Drawing by Arthur Harry Church, 1905. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Aquilegia sp. columbine
Drawing 1/5 by Arthur Harry Church, 1904. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. Plate 018

Papaver sp. blue poppy
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Ipomoea obscura, morning glory
Watercolour no. 54 from the Nathaniel Wallich Collection, c. 1820s. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Syringa tomentella. Dried specimen taken from the museum herbarium. Collected near Newbury, Berks 1952

Coccyzus erythropthalmus, black-billed cuckoo
Plate 32 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

Sabal palmetto, cabbage palmetto
Watercolour by William Young, 1767. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Quercus in amber
A male oak tree flower in Baltic amber with a length of 3.7 mm and dating from the Upper Eocene about 35 million years old. Image from Amber The Natural Time Capsule page 29 figure 86

Fragaria chiloensis, Chilean strawberry

Vanilla planifolia, vanilla
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London. Engraved by John Nugent Fitch

Violet Cron
Illustration from Flora Exotica (1720) by Johann Gottfried Simula. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Rosa bifera macrocarpa, Lelieurs four-seasons rose
Painting by Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840) from Les Roses Vol. 1, 1817. Illustration entitled La Quatre Laisons Lelieur

School Teacher
People You See. From Teddy Bear (8 February 1964)

Court florists advert
T A Dickson & Co. court florists, Covent Garden, London, 1901 Date: 1901

Cardinale family making silk flowers. Father wears a cast. D
8:00 PM January 29, 1912. Cardinale family making silk flowers. Father wears a cast. Does not work. (See report on schedule.) Boy, 11 years old, helps some, even at night. 43 Carmine St

Domestic sewing machine. Bride and groom. Date c1882

Celmisia Monroi, rock cotton plant
Celmisia Monroi, a rock cotton plant with pink flowers. 1888

Sweet Violet - Viola Odorata Coloured engraving by Johan Wilhelm Palmstruch, (1770-1811), Date: 1800s

David Wright woman with yellow gloves in a garden
Elegant woman in a blue dress and yellow gloves in a garden, representing one of The Girls They Left Behind. David Wright (1912 - 1967), was a popular British artist specialising in glamour

Two women in the latest French fashions, sitting on a garden bench. On the left is a pink dress with lace trimming below the neck

Shadow drawing. C. H. Bennett, Old enough
Old enough to know better (The Marquis of Capricorne) This old goat, holding a poesy of flowers and possibly on his way to court a lady friend casts the shadow of a ram

A Charles Wells Public House, in an unidentified location. This brewery company, based in Bedfordshire, is still in existence today, with over 200 pubs to its name

Reginald Malby with a giant camera in his garden
Reginald Malby (1882-1924), official photographer to the Royal Horticultural Society, using a giant camera in his garden at Woodford, Essex

Malby family group photo
Members of the Malby family (four adults and a child) pose for a group photo in a garden. On the far left is Reginald Malby (1882-1924), official photographer to the Royal Horticultural Society

Crocus & Snowdrop / Language of Flowers
Crocus & Snowdrop personified

All for Mummy by Muriel Dawson
A little girl with blonde curls wearing a red coat gathers primroses, violets and other spring flowers, especially for her mother

Fancy-Ball Polka, music sheet
Cover design for a music sheet, The Fancy-Ball Polka, by E Reynolds. A late Victorian family is depicted, with adults and children dressed up for a party

Mr & Mrs David Lloyd George
The British Prime Minister David Lloyd George (1863 - 1945) and his wife Dame Margaret Lloyd George (1866 - 1941). They married in 1888 and had five children

Turkish Beauty and Crescent Moon
Turkish beauty with flowers in her hair, merged into a backdrop of a misty crescent moon

The Maske of Flowers at Grays Inn given in commemoration of Queen Victorias Jubilee

Flowers for the Millers Daughter by Florence Hardy
A young Dutch boy climbs the steps of a windmill to deliver a bouquet of flowers to a young millers daughter

At Eve I Bring Thee Roses by Florence Hardy
A young Dutch girl sits by a spinning wheel while her suitor peers through the window having presented her with a bouquet of red roses

Country Flowers and Butterflies
Many varieties of wild flowers with a Cabbage White and Tortoiseshell butterflies. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

War Memorial outside the Royal Exchange in the City of London, erected in 1920

Blossoms
A colour illustration of a group of scantily clad ladies picking blossom flowers

Rural scene with honeysuckle and poppies
A pretty rural scene with pink honeysuckle, yellow primroses and red poppies growing by a stone wall, with a cornfield and a windmill in the background

Making a posy of summer blooms
A mother and daughter make a posy of summer blooms in a meadow. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

USA / Met Opera / Stage
NEW YORK a performer takes a bow, as a bouquet of flowers is handed up

Spring Blossoms on Sale
Two pretty & fashionable German flower girls offer ready-made bouquets from their stall

Owen Jones Assyrian 13
Designs taken from enamelled bricks, ornaments from a kings clothing, bronze shields and vessels, and a battering ram, from Khorsabad and Nimroud

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