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St Kildans with Soay SheepSt Kildans with the famous Soay Sheep. The group of islands is known as St Kilda - this particular island is actually called Hirta. Date: circa 1910s
Hairy violet, Viola hirta. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1801
Diosma or Agathosma speciesShowy diosma, Diosma speciosa, fragrant, Diosma fragrans, pretty, Diosma pulchella, and purple, Diosma hirta. Handfinished chromolithograph by Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon
Black-eyed-susan, Rudbeckia hirta. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke from Conrad Loddiges Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1828
Toad lily, Tricyrtis hirta. Japan. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l Europe
Coneflower or black-eyed-susan, Rudbeckia hirta, Polygamia frustranea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtis Lectures
Purple orchid, Orchis mascula, and sedge grass, Carex hirtaPurple orchid, Orchis mascula, Gynandria, 1-3, and sedge grass, Carex hirta, Monoecia, 4-6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F
Soapbush or Kosters curse, Clidemia hirta (Melastoma hirtum]. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell from Samuel Curtis Botanical Magazine, London, 1818
Curtis British Entomology Plate 598Coleoptera: Lagria hirta [Plant: Filipendula vulgaris (Common Dropwort)] Date: 1824-39
Curtis British Entomology Plate 502Coleoptera: Mycetaea hirta (Hairy Cellar-beetle) [Plant: Humulus lupulus female (Common Hop)] Date: 1824-39
Curtis British Entomology Plate 386Lepidoptera: Melitaea selene = Boloria (Argynnis) selene (Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary) [Plant: Viola hirta (Hairy Violet)] Date: 1824-39
Illustration, Noctuae -- Dianthoecia Capsophila, Polyphaenis Sericata, Cleophana Anarrhini, Miselia Bimaculosa, Jaspidea Celsia, Dianthoecia Caesia, Oncocnemis Confusa, Dianthoecia Luteago