Plate.33 Pierre-Joseph Redouté

Plate.33 Pierre-Joseph RedoutéWatercolour on rice paper of plant identified as Magnolia denudata from one of four bound albums of paintings by anonymous Chinese artists purchased by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1912.

1820-1850) after an original by Pierre Joseph Redouté (1759-1840)

The original paintings were undertaken by PJ F Turpin for a prior book titled Traité des Arbres fruitiers

Colour woodblock print of Iris Saio-Ga-Uma from volume II of the Yokohama nursery catalogue of Seitaro Arai which specialised in Iris kaempferi

Stachys officinalis

Thomas was a partner at Sunningdale Nurseries in the mid 1940's and Gardens Advisor to the National Trust from 1955

Colour woodblock print of Iris Shufuraku from volume II of the Yokohama nursery catalogue of Seitaro Arai which specialised in Iris kaempferi

Engraved plate from 'L'Empire des Legumes'

Watercolour on rice paper of plant identified as Magnolia denudata from one of four bound albums of paintings by anonymous Chinese artists purchased by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1912

This orchid was given an award of merit by the Orchid Committee in March 1930

Watercolour and pencil on paper of Paeonia emodi by Lilian Snelling c

hand-finished stipple engraving entitled Rosa Gallica Aurelianensis : La Duchesse d'Orléans

a humorous book attributing human characteristics to vegetables