Paeony Collection

Paeonia sp. peony
Plate 1 From Drawings of Kew Plants by Franz Bauer (1758-1840). Detailed close-up of flower head. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Wild peony, Paeonia mascula (Paeony, Paeonia corallina). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany

Portrait of a woman holding a bowl of peonies flowers

Paeonia cv
Plate 2 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Paeonia humilis. Dried specimen taken from the museum herbarium. Cultivated at Boxford Suffolk by Miss Jenny Robinson. Source probably South of France

Paeonia sp. by Clara Pope
Plate 2 from bound volume. Bodycolour on card, 1821 by Clara Pope (ca.1768-1838). Held in the Library and Archives Date: 1821

Paeonia sp. paeony
Plate 4 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Paeonia moutan cv
Plate 8 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Paeonia officinalis, common peony
Drawing by Arthur Harry Church, 1906. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Paeonia officinalis, peony
Watercolour 5 by G. van Kouwenhoven from the Dutch Collection. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Paeonia veitchii, veitchii peony
Dried specimen of Paeonia veitchii, veitchii peony stored in the museum herbarium, plant collected in 1945

Paeonia corallina. Dried specimen from the museum herbarium. Origin Steep Aohimes, cultivated at Sedbury. Collected 21.5.06

Paeonia officinalis, common peony
Drawing 1/25 made in 1905 by Arthur Harry Church (1865-1937). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Paeonia suffruticosa, tree peony
Plate 2 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

Pivoine odorante, moutan peony
Painting by Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840), from his publication Choix des plus belles fleurs (The Most Beautiful Flowers), c. 1827-33

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