Waterlily Collection

Nymphaea sp. water lily
Watercolour No. 15 by Walter Hood Fitch, c. mid-1800s. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Egyptian waterlily, Nymphaea lotus var. rubra. Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896

Gold-rayed lily of Japan or yamayuri, Lilium auratum. Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896

Two children in printed toile summer outfits with a donkey on a river bank. Robes de toile peinte. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil)

Yellow waterlily, Nuphar lutea (Nymphaea lutea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from James Smiths English Botany, London, 1794

Grasses and grains including wheat, barley, oats, rice, corn, maize, papyrus, sugar, sorghum, bamboo, waterlily, etc. Lithograph from Lorenz Okens Universal Natural History

Waterlily species
Foreign yellow waterlily, Nymphaea advena, sweet-scented waterlily, Nymphaea odorata, N. odorata minor, and shining waterlily, Nymphaea nitida

The white Water-Lily and yellow Nuphar, Silence
The white Water-Lily, Nymphaea odorata, and yellow waterlily, Nuphar lutea, Silence. Handcoloured lithograph by Dean and Munday after an illustration by Eliza Eve Gleadall from The Beauties of Flora

African vegetation including papyrus, date palm, banana tree, waterlily, etc. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrrarios Costumes Antique and Modern of All Peoples

Hybrid of waterlily tulip, Tulipa kaufmanniana x maculate tulip, Tulipa greigii. Silkscreen botanical illustration by Elsie Katherine Dykes from William R

Hybrids of maculate tulip, Tulipa greigii x waterlily tulip, Tulipa kaufmanniana. Silkscreen botanical illustration by Elsie Katherine Dykes from William R

Forms of the waterlily tulip, Tulipa kaufmanniana. Silkscreen botanical illustration by Elsie Katherine Dykes from William R. Dykes Notes on Tulip Species, Herbert Jenkins Ltd. London, 1930

Red waterlily tulip, Tulipa kaufmanniana var. coccinea. Silkscreen botanical illustration by Elsie Katherine Dykes from William R. Dykes Notes on Tulip Species, Herbert Jenkins Ltd. London, 1930

Waterlily tulip, Tulipa kaufmanniana. Silkscreen botanical illustration by Elsie Katherine Dykes from William R. Dykes Notes on Tulip Species, Herbert Jenkins Ltd. London, 1930

White waterlily, Nymphaea alba. 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

Bacchic rite. Priestess with waterlily leaf receiving a string of pearls, and (below) Bacchus seated between two ministers

Hawaiian Islands, USA - Coconut, Date and Royal Palm Trees Date: 1920s

Nymphaea rubra, Indian red water lily
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection, held at the Natural History Museum, London. Painted by Sydenham Teast Edwards and engraved by Francis Sansom

Nymphaea coerulea, blue Egyptian water lily
Illustration from The Temple of Flora (1812) by Dr Robert John Thornton (1768-1837)

Fran Kern with herbarium specimen
Fran Kern a botanist at the Natural History Museum, London. The specimen featured is Nymphaea candida C. Presl, candid water lily collected in Sweden

Nymphaea odorata var. minor
Plate 45. Watercolour on paper, 1901 by Mrs Hosea B. Morse (Annie Josephine Wexford) (1853-1940). Held in the Library and Archives Date: 1901

Waterlily flower fairy in nuns habit.. Handcolored steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from Les Fleurs Animees, Flower Fairies, Paris

Corolla examples: monopetalous bindweed, hexapetala lily and polypetala waterlily.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtiss Lectures

Cup-flowered water lily with large white flower in front of round lily pad, Nymphaea nitida.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtiss

Nymphaea nelumbo, sacred Egyptian bean
Illustration from The Temple of Flora by Robert John Thornton (1768?-1837). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Nymphaea sp. water lily: underside of leaf
Plate 3 from Victoria Regia 1854, by John Fisk Allen. Illustration by William Sharp

Nymphaea lotus, water lily of Malabar
Watercolour by T. Reichel, 1789. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Nymphaea capensis, cape blue water lily
Unsigned artwork from early 1800s. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Nymphaea ampla, water lily
Watercolour no. 15 by Ralph Stennett, 1806. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Nymphaea rubra, Indian red water lily
Drawing by Arthur Harry Church, 1907. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. Plate 132

Nuphar lutea ssp. Advena, spatter-doc
Drawing 8/1 made in 1904 by Arthur Harry Church (1865-1937). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. Plate 102

Nymphaea stellata L. water lily
Watercolour on vellum by Sydney Parkinson (1745-1771). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Nymphaea sp. water lilies
Plate 9 from The Chief Natural Orders of Plants (1849). Illustrated and described by Elizabeth Twining (1805-1889)

Nuphar luteum, yellow pond lily
Drawing by Arthur Harry Church, 1906. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. Plate 115

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