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Gesneria

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Images referencing Gesneria

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  • Seven plants, including an orchid, a campanula and a penstemon: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1835.
  • Eight plants, including two passion flowers: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1833.
  • Five tropical flowering plants, all species of the genus Gesneria. Coloured lithograph.
  • Seven plants, including three orchids and a gesneria: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
  • Three tropical flowering plants, all species of the genus Gesneria. Coloured lithograph.
  • Nine plants, including three orchids, a phlox and a delphinium: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
  • Eight plants, including two orchids and a gesneria: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1835.
  • Three flowering plants: a Gesneria species, a slipper flower (Calceolaria majoriana) and a Collinsia species. Coloured engraving by J. & J. Parkin, c. 1835, after C. W. Harrison.
  • Seven plants, including two orchids and a cactus: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
  • Seven garden plants, including two orchids: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.

Works from the collections

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    Seven plants, including three orchids and a gesneria: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.

    | Date: 1837 | Reference: 27537i
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    Nine plants, including three orchids, a phlox and a delphinium: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1837.

    | Date: 1837 | Reference: 27836i
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    Eight plants, including two orchids and a gesneria: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1835.

    | Date: 1835 | Reference: 27687i
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    Three tropical flowering plants, all species of the genus Gesneria. Coloured lithograph.

    | Reference: 27173i
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    Three flowering plants: a Gesneria species, a slipper flower (Calceolaria majoriana) and a Collinsia species. Coloured engraving by J. & J. Parkin, c. 1835, after C. W. Harrison.

    Harrison, C. W. | Date: [1833-59] | Reference: 26169i

Related topics

Botany
Plants, Cultivated
Plants, Ornamental
Flowers
Horticulture
Orchidaceae
Gesneriaceae

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