Linnaean classification Frame:none

Linnaean classification Frame:noneColour plate depicting Linnaean classification dated January 1, 1793. One of two plates from 'Linnus's System of Botany' by William Curtis (1746 1799) published as an educational work for botany students.

The plant was painted at Colesborne in July 1916

From one of four bound albums of paintings by anonymous Chinese artists purchased by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1912

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

Ink drawing of Clematis cirrhosa var balearica by Graham Stuart Thomas

Plate 13 from J L M Poiret's book 'Lecons de Flore' depicting seed and flower casings printed or painted on vellum

Watercolour of Lilium speciosum (showy Japanese lily) by Caroline Maria Applebee painted c

Rosa filipes 'Kiftsgate'

Illustration of trees from Boehmer & Co's catalogue of Japanese plants

Illustrated plates from a Victorian childrens book 'The Alphabet of Flowers' published by John Dicks of 313

Watercolour of 'Syringa des jardins' (Philadelphus coronarius) and a bird's nest with eggs taken from volume II of 'Flore du désert: receuil des fleurs odorantes dans un coin consacré à une amie'

Hand-coloured engraved plate entitled 'Fringilla forficata

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