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Double flowers

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  • Six cut Ranunculus flowers: double-flowered varieties with leaves. Watercolour by Mrs. Montgomery.
  • A large paeony (Paeonia species) surrounded by various flowers and moths. Etching by W. Hollar, 1663, after himself.
  • Double and single paeony (Paeonia sp.): flowering stem of the double peony with a separate single paeony flower and floral segments. Engraving by Hopwood, c.1802, after P.Henderson.
  • A double-flowered geranium (Geranium species) Chromolithograph, c. 1870, after H. Briscoe.
  • Rose flowers (5 varieties). Coloured engraving by H. Fletcher, c. 1730, after J. van Huysum.
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    A camel surrounded by various named animals, flowers and insects, including a giraffe and flying dragon. Engraving by D. Loggan, 1663, after W. Hollar.

    Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677. | Date: [1674] | Reference: 24373i
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    A double flowered poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima): flowering stem. Chromolithograph, c. 1876.

    | Date: [1876] | Reference: 25886i
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    A camellia (Camellia japonica): a double red and single white flower. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.

    Burnett, M. A., active 1850. | Date: [1853] | Reference: 23986i
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    Six cut Ranunculus flowers: double-flowered varieties with leaves. Watercolour by Mrs. Montgomery.

    Montgomery. | Reference: 22058i
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    Rose flowers (5 varieties). Coloured engraving by H. Fletcher, c. 1730, after J. van Huysum.

    Huysum, Jacob van, approximately 1687-approximately 1740. | Date: [1730] | Reference: 20569i
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