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Images about Pyrus

18 images from works
  • A pear (Pyrus species): flowering branch. Watercolour.
  • Two pears (Pyrus cultivars): fruit and flowers. Coloured aquatint, c. 1839.
  • Four cultivars of pear (Pyrus communis cv.): entire fruits. Coloured etching by W. Clark, c. 1835, after Lady Boughton.
  • A collection of pears (Pyrus species). Colour and coloured engraving, c. 1817, after G. Brookshaw.
  • Seven plants, including a pear, an aster and two orchids: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • A pear plant (Pyrus communis): flowering and fruiting stems. Coloured zincograph by C. Chabot, c. 1876, after W. Fitch.
  • Pear (Pyrus species): fruiting branch with sections of fruit. Colour stipple engraving by A. Contardi, c. 1817, after D. del Pino.
  • Pear (Pyrus species): fruiting branch with sections of fruit. Colour aquatint by B. Rosaspina after D. del Pino, 1822.
  • Pear (Pyrus species): fruiting branch with sections of fruit. Colour stipple engraving by A. Contardi after D. del Pino, 1822.
  • A caterpillar bores a hole into the side of pear having just eaten a hole in an apple, an analogy to the voracious appetite and speed of growth of the HIV virus. Colour silk screen print after A. François, 1993.
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Works from the collections

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Rosaceae
Botany
Fruit
Plants, Edible
Plants, Cultivated
Pears - Varieties
Horticulture
Plants
Flowers
Apples