Orders Collection (page 6)

Common barberry, Berberis vulgaris. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London

Great sun-dew, Drosera anglica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816

Creeping sibbaldia, Sibbaldia procumbens. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Grass of parnassus, Parnassia palustris. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Dwarf elder, Sambucus ebulus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816

Wayfaring tree, Viburnum lantana. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London

Blue passionflower, Passiflora caerulea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Carrion flower or fetid stapelia, Stapelia hirsuta. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany

Spring gentian, Gentiana verna. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816

Water hemlock, Cicuta virosa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816

Heartsease or Love in idleness, Viola tricolor. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman

Woody nightshade, Solanum dulcamara. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Jujube, Ziziphus lotus (Rhamnus lotus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Common elm, Ulmus glabra (Ulmus campestris). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman

Wild cornel tree or dogwood, Cornus sanguinea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman

Devils bit scabious, Succisa pratensis (Scabiosa succisa). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany

Water chickweed, Montia fontana. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London

Umbelliferous chickweed, Holosteum umbellatum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman

Common sugarcane, Saccharum officinarum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Stinking iris, Iris foetidissima. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London

Saffron or autumnal crocus, Crocus officinalis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman

Papyrus grass root, Cyperus papyrus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Papyrus grass, Cyperus papyrus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816

Germander speedwell, Veronica chamaedrys. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Enchanters nightshade, Circaea lutetiana. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Wild buckwheat, Fallopia convolvulus (Climbing buckwheat, Polygonum convolvulus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes

Upright galenia, Galenia africana. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London

Tuberous moschatel, Adoxa moschatellina. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

An itinerant bookseller selling tales and song-books for the lower orders from a stall. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste

Advert for Gorringes womens early spring hats 1923
Selection of hats for early spring. Date: 1923

Cartoon, A Sort of War (Mexican Revolution)
Cartoon, A Sort of War - a satirical comment on American intervention in the Mexican Revolution. Woodrow Wilson stands on a ship during a naval battle

Cortes orders his men to sink his ships
Hernan Cortes orders his men to sink the ships, so that they cannot retreat. Camp has been set up on the banks, as men in longboats surround various boats either sunk or in the process of sinking

First Viscount Wolseley and George Wyndham
Ws. Field Marshal Garnet Joseph Wolseley, First Viscount Wolseley (1833-1913) issues orders to George Wyndham (1863-1913), former soldier, Politician and author. Date: 1900

PROTESTANTS ROASTED
Henri II orders Calvinist protestants to be hanged and burned, lowering them on ropes into the fire, pulling them up again, and so on, until they are well and truly roasted Date: 1558

Knights Templar, in armour. Date: 13th century

A knight of the garter. Date: 1820

1883 one cent postal card for Joseph Gosselin
A very very early American one cent postal card printed for messages/orders to be sent to Joseph Gosselin, Importer of lace pictures and religious articles, 198 Grand Street, New York City, USA. 1883

Soldiers and Gun Date: 1943

Communards cleaning out the coffers of the Church 1871
Communards cleaning out the coffers of a convent of the Little Sisters of the Poor, during the Paris Commune of 1871. The Communards were anti-religious

POSEIDON RULES THE WAVES
Poseidon / Neptune tames the waves, and orders Triton to blow his conch-shell

VENDEEANS DROWNED
The Noyades [drownings] de Nantes - Republican general Carrier orders priests and royalist sympathisers taken out onto the Loire in barges and drowned. Date: February - May 1794

FOREIGNER ORDERS FOOD
A foreigner struggles to order a meal in a restaurant. Date: 1849

ICE CREAM STALL
An ice cream vendor is kept very busy with orders from the children that flock around his stall Date: circa 1900

PAINTING TOY ANIMALS
This woman is working overtime hand-painting toy animals at a north London factory, supplying big orders received from many little girls who want a Noahs Ark like Princess Elizabeths. Date: late 1920s

TERESIANO PRIEST
SACERDOTE TERESIANO priest of the order of Santa Teresa dAvila Date: 1833

SISTER OF MISERICORDE
A SISTER OF THE ORDER OF NOTRE-DAME DE LA MISERICORDE (Our Lady of Mercy)

SISTER OF ST JOHN
Nursing sister of the ORDER OF SAINT JOHN OF JERUSALEM at the convent of Toulouse : she wears a habit de coeur, evidently a ceremonial habit of some kind

BENEDICTINE OF CLUNY
A Benedictine of the abbaie de Cluny, France, in its early days (it was founded in 910)

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