Tableau XX Rose

Tableau XX RosePlate 20 from J L M Poiret's book 'Lecons de Flore' depicting flower types printed or painted on vellum. Historical evidence suggests that the volumes held in the Lindley Library are a portion of Louis XVIII's copy of the Flore mdicale, brought to England by Empress Eugnie.

Historical evidence suggests that the volumes held in the Lindley Library are a portion of Louis XVIII's copy of the Flore médicale

Watercolour on paper by Augusta Innes Withers of Ribes sanguineum (Red-flowering Currant)

by Lilian Snelling

Martynia and Narcissus from G D Ehret's self published Plantae et Papilione

Watercolour on vellum illustration of Passiflora maliformis by Margaret Meen

Painting of a godwit in reeds by an unknown Chinese artist

Rose by Graham Stuart Thomas

Close-up of an Alocasia odora leaf at RHS Garden Wisley

From an album of 45 paintings of wild flowers of Devon

J Redouté from 'Choix des plus belle fleurs' published in 1827

Watercolour on paper by artist Lilian Snelling of Castellieja miniata stem and flowers with flower dissection detail

seeds and sapling growth of the Hornbeam