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Images about Botany

1,410 images from works
  • White bryony (Bryonia dioica): flowering plant. Woodcut.
  • Iac. Cornvti ... Canadensivm planatarvm, aliarúmque nondum editarum historia. Cui adiectum est ad calcem enchiridion botanicvm Parisiense. Continens indicem plantarum, quae in pagis, siluis, pratis, et montosis iuxta Parisios locis nascuntur / [Jacques Philippe Cornut].
  • Three flowering plants, including coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara), common rue (Ruta graveolens), and a legume. Watercolour, c. 1870.
  • Two white roses, in a still-life. Watercolour by J.D.(?), 1885.
  • Chinese lantern (Physalis alkekengi): fruiting stem. Watercolour by B. Bird.
  • Five plants, possibly pinks (Dianthus species): flowering stems. Watercolour.
  • A climbing leguminous plant: leafy stem with pods. Watercolour.
  • Damask rose (Rosa damascena "Italica"): flowering stem. Colour halftone after Victor, c.1824, after P. J. Redouté.
  • Cherry (Prunus species): branch with flowers. Colour aquatint by F. Corsi, 1830, after D. del Pino.
  • A species of orchid: flowering plant with traces of surrounding vegetation. Chromolithograph by E.Vouga, c.1883, after herself.
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Works from the collections

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    A dragonfly on a lotus flower (Nelumbo species) held above the water. Watercolour.

    | Reference: 23631i
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    Passion flower (Passiflora alata): flowering stem. Watercolour, ca. 1850 (?).

    | Reference: 22160i
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    Two flowering plants. Watercolour, c. 1870.

    | Date: 1870 | Reference: 3338943i.14
    Part of: Japanese watercolour paintings of flowers.
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    Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey: Miss North's museum. Wood engraving by Hill.

    | Hill. | Reference: 18174i
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    Plant response as a means of physiological investigation / by Jagadis Chunder Bose.

    | Jagadish Chandra Bose | Date: 1906
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Related topics

Plants
History, 18th Century
Plants, Medicinal
Plants, Cultivated
Italy
Plants, Useful
History, 19th Century
Plants, Ornamental
Flowers
Herbs

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