Solid or highly viscous substance, of plant or synthetic origin, which can be polymerized into a solid

East Indian or Malabar Kino (Pterocarpus marsupium Roxb.): branch with flowers, separate shoot bearing flowers and fruit and sections of flowers. Coloured line engraving.

Scammony (Convolvulus scammonia L.): entire flowering and fruiting plant with separate seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.

Indian Copal (Vateria indica L.): branch with flowers, leaves and fruit and dissected fruit showing seed. Coloured line engraving.

Rosins, synthetic resins and related products : compatability and solubility chart / Hercules Powder Company.

Blue gum or fever tree (Eucalyptus globulus Labill.): flowering and fruiting stem with floral segments. Engraving by C. Dien, c.1798, after P. J. Redouté.

Bastard Teak or Flame of the Forest (Butea monosperma (Lam.) Kuntze): leaf cluster, inflorescence and dissected flower. Coloured line engraving.

Cashew nut or acajou (Anacardium occidentale L.): flowering and fruiting branch with separate sectioned flowers and fruit. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c. 1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

Hog fennel (Peucedanum officinale L.): inflorescence, leaf, stem base, fruit and floral segments. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1778.

An old dragon tree (Dracaena draco) with a gash in its stem releasing its "dragon's blood" resin and a door in its trunk. Aquatint with etching by R. G. Reeve after J. J. Williams, c.1819.

Mattipaul (Ailanthus malabarica DC.): branch with flowers and fruits, separate flowers and seed. Coloured line engraving.

1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 34.2 x 43.6 cm

Specification of Pierre Villiers : impregnating the air for the lungs, &c.

1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 33.6 x 41.6 cm

Vegetable substances: materials of manufactures / [Published under the superintendence of the Society of the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge]. [Anon].

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Gums and resins

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Indian Copal (Vateria indica L.): branch with flowers, leaves and fruit and dissected fruit showing seed. Coloured line engraving.

Specification of Pierre Villiers : impregnating the air for the lungs, &c.

East Indian or Malabar Kino (Pterocarpus marsupium Roxb.): branch with flowers, separate shoot bearing flowers and fruit and sections of flowers. Coloured line engraving.

Rosins, synthetic resins and related products : compatability and solubility chart / Hercules Powder Company.

Vegetable substances: materials of manufactures / [Published under the superintendence of the Society of the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge]. [Anon].

Gums and resins

Images from the collections

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Works from the collections

Indian Copal (Vateria indica L.): branch with flowers, leaves and fruit and dissected fruit showing seed. Coloured line engraving.

Specification of Pierre Villiers : impregnating the air for the lungs, &c.

East Indian or Malabar Kino (Pterocarpus marsupium Roxb.): branch with flowers, separate shoot bearing flowers and fruit and sections of flowers. Coloured line engraving.

Rosins, synthetic resins and related products : compatability and solubility chart / Hercules Powder Company.

Vegetable substances: materials of manufactures / [Published under the superintendence of the Society of the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge]. [Anon].

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