[Rosa chinensis] Size:small

[Rosa chinensis] Size:smallWatercolour on paper by an unknown Japanese artist from an album titled 'Plantae Icones Japonicae' formerly owned by Reginald Cory (1871 1934).

Berberis darwinii 'Compacta'

by the artist Harmanis de Alwis Seneviratna from a bound volume of 'Cingalese Drawings'

Watercolour on board of a flower of Brassocattleya John Linford painted by the artist Nellie Roberts

Identified as Paeonia russii var Reverchoni by the artist

In 1818 John Curtis became the principal artist and produced over 400 plates for the magazine which was founded by the unrelated William Curtis in 1787

Polygala vulgaris (common milkwort)

and Carex oshimenensus Evergold

Watercolour and pencil on grey paper titled 'Narcissus ajax Daniel Dewar' by the artist Margaret Rebecca Dickinson

Ornimental cabbage

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

identified as Convolvulus by the artist and published in Curtis's Botanical Magazine

and is dedicated to the princesses Louise and Marie d'Orléans