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Rose hips

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  • A wild rose (Rosa dicksoni): flowering stem, fruit and floral segments. Coloured engraving, c. 1831, after J. Sowerby.
  • Rose hips and leaves. Watercolour and pen drawings.
  • Four fruiting plants, a rose, a strawberry, a fig and a lemon, all with different types of pericarp. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.
  • Three fruiting plant stems, including a rose, a liliaceous plant and a tree with red berries. Watercolour.
  • A fruiting rose (Rosa species) on the left, a flowering plant on the right. Watercolour.
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    A wild rose (Rosa involuta): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1809.

    Sowerby, James, 1757-1822. | Date: 1 October 1809 | Reference: 25140i
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    A wild rose (Rosa dicksoni): flowering stem, fruit and floral segments. Coloured engraving, c. 1831, after J. Sowerby.

    Sowerby, James, 1757-1822. | Date: 1 September 1831 | Reference: 25094i
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    Rose hips and leaves. Watercolour and pen drawings.

    | Reference: 22366i
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    A wild rose (Rosa dumetorum): flowering and fruiting stems. Coloured engraving, c. 1829, after J. Sowerby.

    Sowerby, James, 1757-1822. | Date: 1 November 1829 | Reference: 25090i
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    A fruiting rose (Rosa species) on the left, a flowering plant on the right. Watercolour.

    | Reference: 22775i
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