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Tab. 1 Size:smallHand coloured engraved plate from the first volume of Jacob Christian Schaeffer's 'Histor Fungorum' which depicts the varieties of Agaric fungus. This plate was drawn by I. St. Loibel (fl. 1760s) and engraved by G P Trautner (fl. 1757 1774).

1757-1774)

Rosa Félicité Perpétue and Rosa Spectabilis by Graham Stuart Thomas

'Regne Vegetal' was compiled by Baron Joseph van Huerne and originally bound as a set of 4 albums

Watercolour on paper depicting Crown Imperial Lily from an album titled 'Flores a Petro Holsteyn ad vivum depicti' by the artist Pieter Holsteyn

This is an original watercolour of Delphinium grandiflorum var

Portrait of Chrysanthemum indicum by John Curtis

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

Watercolour of Rosa Adélaide d'Orléans

The publication in two volumes 'containing coloured figures and descriptions of the most esteemed kinds of apples and pears' was edited by Henry Graves

Erythronium hendersonii

attributed to the Chinese artist or collector Wang Lui Chi

This is taken from an album of 25 original drawings of flowers which include un-coloured dissections of the flowers and seeds beneath the main illustration