Plate 14 Asian and Oriental Art

Plate 14 Asian and Oriental ArtWatercolour of 'Lilas varin' (Syringa chinensis) taken from volume II of 'Flore du dsert: receuil des fleurs odorantes dans un coin consacr une amie', a work bound in two volumes produced by an unidentified French artist c. 1800.

'Regne Vegetal' was compiled by Baron Joseph van Huerne and originally bound as a set of 4 albums

This is an original watercolour of a Delphinium by John Curtis produced for reproduction in Curtis's Botanical Magazine

russoi 'Reverchoni' (peony)

Taken from volume I of ‘Regne Vegetal' which contains botanical drawings by at least four identified artists

Watercolour on paper of Tagetes (marigold) from an album titled 'Flores a Petro Holsteyn ad vivum depicti' by the artist Pieter Holsteyn

Watercolour by Willliam Hooker of The Elruge Nectarine

Watercolour on rice paper of plant identified as Benincasa hispida (Chinese winter melon) from one of four bound albums of paintings by anonymous Chinese artists purchased by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1912

for inclusion in Curtis's Botanical Magazine plate 8930

sempervirens by Lilian Snelling

One of 769 hand coloured plates from Curtis's British Entomology

Campanula rotundifolia (harebell)

Rosa rubiginosa (rose)