Hydrangea Collection

Hydrangea hortensis, French hydrangea
Painting by Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840), from his publication Choix des plus belles fleurs (The Most Beautiful Flowers), c. 1827-33

Bigleaf hydrangea, Hydrangea macrophylla (Hydrangea otaksa). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Hydrangea, Hydrangea hortensia. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1802

Hydrangea and Kingfisher. Print shows a kingfisher above hydrangea blossoms. Date between 1830 and 1858, printed later

Rose General Jacqueminot, hybrid perpetual. Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896

Irish old lady, Co Clare, Ireland
A little Irish lady wearing a flowered apron stands in her garden in front of a derelict lorry and a flowering hydrangea. County Clare, Ireland Date: 1990

Japan hydrangea, Hydrangea japonica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by G. Barclay after Miss Sarah Drake from John Lindley and Robert Sweets Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery, G

Escallonia, hydrangea and luculia species
Organ mountains escallonia, Escallonia organensis, blue flowered Japanese hydrangea, Hydrangea japonica caerulea, and fragrant luculia, Luculia gratissima

Japanese hydrangea, Hydrangea japonica fol. albo-variegatis
Japanese hydrangea or ajisai, Hydrangea japonica fol. albo-variegatis. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Big-leaf hydrangea, Hydrangea macrophylla (Hydrangea stellata). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

JAPANESE ARRANGEMENT -10
HYDRANGEA, ANTHISTIRIA ARGUENS, and DAISY Date: 1934

Boy and wheelbarrow in a garden, with hydrangea bushes on either side. Date: circa 1920s

Hydrangea japonica var caerulea, Japan hydrangea
Hydrangea japonica var. caerulea, Japan hydrangea blue-flowered variety.. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Walter Hood Fitch for Sir William Jackson Hookers Curtiss

Hydrangea-like fransiscea, Fransiscea hydrangeaeformis.. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Walter Hood Fitch for Sir William Jackson Hookers Curtiss Botanical Magazine

Hydrangea sp. hydrangea
Illustration from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Hydrangea otaksa, French hydrangea
Hydrangea otaksa from Flora Japonica (1838) by Philipp Franz von Siebold. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Vireo flavifrons, yellow-throated vireo
Plate 119 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Hydrangea villosa hidcote. Dried specimen taken from the museums herbarium. Date 20.viii.1974. No 1081

Hydrangea preziosa. Dried specimen from the museum herbarium. Date 20.viii.1974, No 1047. Cultivated plants from Hilliers Arboretum, England

Hydrangea macrophylla Tricolor, bigleaf hydrangea. Cultivated plants from Hilliers Arboretum, Ampfield, Hampshire, England. Collected by (BM)NH staff. Date 20.viii.1974 No. 1048

Hydrangea quercifolia, oak-leaf hydrange
Unnumbered drawing (Tab III) from the Botanical and zoological drawings (1756-1788) by William Bartram. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Blossoms from two kinds of hydrangea. Date 1755

Small bird and hydrangea. Print shows a small bird perched on a branch of a hydrangea plant. Date between 1860 and 1910

Hydrangea Blooms
Hydrangea flower blooms. Date: 1930s

Grandville Hortensia
Hortensia (Hydrangea) and Crown Imperial Date: 1847

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