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Concept

Solanum

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  • Black nightshade (Solanum nigrum): leaves and fruits. Pen drawing, partially coloured.
  • Eight plants, including an orchid, a magnolia and a cactus: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • Two spiny plants (Solanum sisymbrifolium): flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured lithograph.
  • Four poisonous plants: monk's hood (Aconitum napellus), deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna), woody nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) and thorn-apple (Datura stramonium) Coloured engraving by J. Johnstone, 1855.
  • Two aubergine fruits (Solanum melongena) and an umbelliferous plant stem. Watercolour.
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    Woody nightshade or bittersweet (Solanum dulcamara): flowering and fruiting stem. Watercolour.

    | Reference: 22084i
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    Black nightshade (Solanum nigrum L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.

    | Date: [1774] | Reference: 16859i
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    Aubergine or egg plant (Solanum melongena): fruits of different varieties. Chromolithograph, c. 1870, after H. Briscoe.

    Briscoe, H. | Date: [1870] | Reference: 26150i
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    A plant (Solanum sp.): entire flowering and fruiting plant. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.

    | Date: [1774] | Reference: 16861i
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    Two aubergine fruits (Solanum melongena) and an umbelliferous plant stem. Watercolour.

    | Reference: 23404i
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