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Two raspberry plant stems, one with a chrysalis attached. Watercolour.

Autumn leaves of bramble (Rubus species). Watercolour drawing.

Leaves and flowers of bramble (Rubus species). Pen and watercolour drawings.

Bramble (Rubus fruticosus): flowering and fruiting stems with floral segments. Coloured engraving, c. 1830, after J. Sowerby.

A thistle in the centre with a boar to the left facing a mastiff to the right, all surrounded by various plants and insects. Engraving by D. Loggan, 1663, after W. Hollar.

Cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus): flowering stem, fruit and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1800.

Two plants, one a bramble (Rubus species): flowering stems. Watercolour.

Four British wild flowers with fruit; dewberry, two brambles and cloudberry . Coloured lithograph, c. 1856, after H. Humphreys.

A dewberry plant (Rubus caesius) in flower with an associated moth and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.

Bramble (Rubus species): flowering and fruiting stems with leaf. Coloured engraving, c. 1829, after J. Sowerby.

Arctic raspberry (Rubus arcticus): flowering stem, root and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1806.

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Bramble (Rubus species): flowering and fruiting stems with leaf. Coloured engraving, c. 1829, after J. Sowerby.

Cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus): flowering stem, fruit and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1800.

Arctic raspberry (Rubus arcticus): flowering stem, root and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1806.

A thistle in the centre with a boar to the left facing a mastiff to the right, all surrounded by various plants and insects. Engraving by D. Loggan, 1663, after W. Hollar.

Autumn leaves of bramble (Rubus species). Watercolour drawing.