Iris Bunmei-Kogo LIB0037648

Iris Bunmei-Kogo LIB0037648Colour woodblock print of Iris Bunmei Kogo from the catalogue of the Yokohama nursery of Seitaro Arai which specialised in Iris kaempferi. The Yokohama nurseries supplied catalogues of plants for sale overseas. There is evidence to suggest that towards the end of the 19th Century they began to trade collectively as one company.

Loibel (fl

Painted at Colesbourne in April 1915

Stachys officinalis

depicting the adult and caterpillar

This is taken from one of ten volumes known as Hooker's Fruits which were commissioned by the RHS to help reform the nomenclature of cultivated fruit

Illustration of trees from Boehmer & Co's catalogue of Japanese plants

Watercolour on vellum illustration of Portlandia grandiflora by Margaret Meen dated 1789

Erythronium amercianum

Watercolour on rice paper of plant identified as Lycoris aurea (Spider lily

Watercolour on paper of Boletus and Agaricus with some insect species identified and named as Gold-Spot moth and Wood Argus butterfly

One of 769 hand coloured plates from Curtis's British Entomology

London: [1789-1791]