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Thistles

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  • A plant (Carduus pycnocephalus L.) related to Scotch thistle: flowering stem with separate flowers and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • Cnicus benedictus (Holy thistle)
  • A plant (Carduus species) related to scotch thistle: flowering stem with root. Watercolour.
  • Two Scotsmen flying on a witch's broomstick from Edinburgh to London; representing Scots usurping the positions of southerners under the government of Lord Bute. Etching by P. Sandby, 1762.
  • A plant (Carduus sp.) related to scotch thistle: flowering stem with separate root and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
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    A plant (Carduus pycnocephalus L.) related to Scotch thistle: flowering stem with separate flowers and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.

    Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801. | Date: [1770] | Reference: 17614i
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    Two plants of the Compositae family: a flowering thistle (left) and yellow chrysanthemum (right). Watercolour.

    | Reference: 23600i
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    A thistle (Carduus acanthoides) with an associated beetle and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.

    | Date: 1 September 1830 | Reference: 24158i
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    A figure composed of barrels batters the drooping head of a thistle; representing the forced resignation of Lord Melville following implications of malversation and the vote on Whitbread's motion. Aquatint by J. Sayer, 1805.

    Sayers, James, 1748-1823. | Date: 26 June 1805 | Reference: 25936i
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    A thistle in the centre with a boar to the left facing a mastiff to the right, all surrounded by various plants and insects. Engraving by D. Loggan, 1663, after W. Hollar.

    Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677. | Date: [1674] | Reference: 24376i
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