Plate 67 LIB0039937

Plate 67 LIB0039937Coloured engraved plate from the 1776 publication 'Collection precieuse et enlumine des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tant dans les jardins de la Chine, que dans ceux de l'Europe'. The artists are unknown, the author is Pierre Joseph Buchoz (1731 1807) a French medical doctor who also studied, taught and wrote on botanical and natural history subjects.

Watercolour of Lilium tigrinum with a butterfly

Watercolour on paper of a cantaloupe melon by Pierre François Ledoulx

Watercolour of Rosa 'Buff Beauty' and Rosa × odorata 'Mutabilis' by Graham Stuart Thomas

Rhododendron

allium cepa ramrod

Adonis annuelle

Can Can Apricot

Watercolour of Rosa multibracteata and Rosa 'Cerise Bouquet' by Graham Stuart Thomas

Colour engraved plate entitled 'Lonicera periclymenum' from the 1777 edition of 'Flora Londinensis'

there is evidence to suggest that towards the end of the 19th Century they began to trade collectively as one company

Colour woodblock print of Iris Kairakubo from the catalogue of a Yokohama nursery which specialised in Iris kaempferi

One of a bound volume of 35 paintings of iris made for Ellen Wilmott (1858-1934) which are likely to be varieties from Wilmott's Essex garden Warley Place