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Giant water lily (Victoria amazonica): an expanded flower with surrounding leaves and buds. Coloured lithograph by W. Fitch, c. 1845, after himself.

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey: lake in the arboretum. Process print.

Patterns of nature: a series of decorative plants. 3, Nymphaea alba.

Giant water lily (Victoria amazonica): an opening flower with surrounding leaves and buds. Coloured lithograph by W. Fitch, c. 1845, after himself.

White waterlily (Nymphaea alba L.): leaf, flowers, fruit and seed. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.

Giant water lily (Victoria amazonica): twenty one different anatomical segments of the plant. Coloured lithograph by W. Fitch, c. 1845, after himself.

The flower of a giant water lily (Victoria amazonica) Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after C. Rosenberg.

A duck and flowering water lily (Nymphaea species) in water. Watercolour.

Twelve British wild flowers with their common names. Coloured engraving, c. 1861, after J. Sowerby.

Kuvshinkovye Ukrainy / D.V. Dubyna ; [I︠U︡. R. Sheli︠a︡g-Sosonko, otvetstvennyĭ redaktor].

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Water lilies

Images from the collections

Images about Water lilies

Works from the collections

White waterlily (Nymphaea alba L.): leaf, flowers, fruit and seed. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.

Giant water lily (Victoria amazonica): twenty one different anatomical segments of the plant. Coloured lithograph by W. Fitch, c. 1845, after himself.

Kuvshinkovye Ukrainy / D.V. Dubyna ; [I︠U︡. R. Sheli︠a︡g-Sosonko, otvetstvennyĭ redaktor].

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey: lake in the arboretum. Process print.

The flower of a giant water lily (Victoria amazonica) Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after C. Rosenberg.

Water lilies

Images from the collections

Images about Water lilies

Works from the collections

White waterlily (Nymphaea alba L.): leaf, flowers, fruit and seed. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.

Giant water lily (Victoria amazonica): twenty one different anatomical segments of the plant. Coloured lithograph by W. Fitch, c. 1845, after himself.

Kuvshinkovye Ukrainy / D.V. Dubyna ; [I︠U︡. R. Sheli︠a︡g-Sosonko, otvetstvennyĭ redaktor].

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey: lake in the arboretum. Process print.

The flower of a giant water lily (Victoria amazonica) Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after C. Rosenberg.

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