Plate.6 Type:stretched canvas

Plate.6 Type:stretched canvasWatercolour on rice paper of plant identified as Canna indica from one of four bound albums of paintings by anonymous Chinese artists purchased by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1912.

1820-1850) after an original by Pierre Joseph Redouté (1759-1840)

Rhododendron

Watercolour by an unidentified Chinese artist of a white dove in a tree surrounded by blossom

Hypericum perforatum

One of two plates from 'Linnæus's System of Botany' by William Curtis (1746-1799) published as an educational work for botany students

Lysimachia nemorum (yellow pimpernel)

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

The Album contains 28 colour plates of vegetable varieties by Ernst Benary which are named in the accompanying page in German

Gessner died before 'Tabulae Phytographicae' was completed and it was published after his death

Watercolour on paper by Augusta Innes Withers of Pear varieties taken from one of ten volumes known as 'Hooker's Fruits' commissioned by the RHS to help standardise the nomenclature of cultivated fruit

Watercolour on vellum illustration of Passiflora vespertilis by Margaret Meen

Watercolour on paper entitled 'Iris macrosiphon or Purdyi yellow × I Douglasiana' attributed to a Miss Williamson