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Plate 34 Size:smallWatercolour on rice paper of plant identified as Nelumbo speciosum (Lotus) from one of four bound albums of paintings by anonymous Chinese artists purchased by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1912.

Watercolour of Helleborus niger (Christmas rose) flowers by Caroline Maria Applebee painted c

Watercolour on paper by an unidentified Chinese artist depicting a White Eye feeding on Prunus blossom

Rosa Félicité Perpétue and Rosa Spectabilis by Graham Stuart Thomas

Watercolour of Eucryphia × nymansensis and Fuchsia 'Mount Stewart' by Graham Stuart Thomas

Belgian born Redouté achieved success as a painter working for the French royal court tutoring Marie Antionette and later from 1798 was appointed to paint the flowers of Malmaison by Josephine Bonaparte

Watercolour on silk by an unidentified Chinese artist of flowers identified as Magnolia liliiflora

From an album of 45 paintings of wild flowers of Devon

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

attributed to the Chinese artist or collector Wang Lui Chi

by William Hooker

Galanthus (snowdrop)

Hand coloured engraved plate from the first volume of Jacob Christian Schaeffer's 'Histor Fungorum' which depicts the varieties of Agaric fungus