Iris Oyoku-Ho-Ren Frame:white

Iris Oyoku-Ho-Ren Frame:whiteColour woodblock print of Iris Oyoku Ho Ren 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.

by the artist Harmanis de Alwis Seneviratna from a bound volume of 'Cingalese Drawings'

hand-finished stipple engraving entitled Althea Frutex : Hibiscus Syriacus

Hand-coloured engraved plate from Nicolas Robert's 'Variæ ac multiformum species' also titled 'Recueil de Fleurs' on the binding

Identified as Paeonia russii var Reverchoni by the artist

Plate 15 from J L M Poiret's book Lecons de Flore depicting flower types printed or painted on vellum

Watercolour of Jasmine leaves and blossom by an unidentified Chinese artist

The warrants displayed on the cover denote that Carters supplied seeds and bulbs to members of the Royal Family at this time

Ipsea speciosa by the artist Harmanis de Alwis Seneviratna from a bound volume of 'Cingalese Drawings'

1814-1840's

Watercolour on paper dated 1828 and entitled Blighia

Colour plate of an orchid plant taken from James Bateman's book 'The Orchidaceae of Mexico & Guatemala'

Attributed to the Chinese artist or collector Wang Lui Chi