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Flowers

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

Amphicome (now Incarvillea) Arguta, 19th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1619/22/3
Scope and Contents

Amphicome (now Incarvillea) arguta copied from plate 72. The other part (Pedicularis versicolor) has been cut off.

Dates: 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Drawings and prints collected by Hugh Cleghorn / Six coloured copies from John Forbes Royle's <title render="italic">Illustrations of the Botany of the Himalayan Mountains</title>

Bombax malabaricum, 19th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1619/15/1
Scope and Contents

Bombax malabaricum.

Dates: 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Drawings and prints collected by Hugh Cleghorn / Drawings by Rungiah

Caragana gerardiana and Genista versicolor, 19th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1619/22/6
Scope and Contents

Caragana gerardiana and Genista versicolor copied from plate 34.

Dates: 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Drawings and prints collected by Hugh Cleghorn / Six coloured copies from John Forbes Royle's <title render="italic">Illustrations of the Botany of the Himalayan Mountains</title>

Chromolithograph of Rhododendron dalhousiae, 19th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1619/13
Scope and Contents

Chromolithograph of Rhododendron Dalhousie, copied from Hooker's Sikkim Rhododendrons, "Off. lith. and pict. in Horto Van Houtteano", from L'Illustration Horticole.

Dates: 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Drawings and prints collected by Hugh Cleghorn

Drawings and prints collected by Hugh Cleghorn

 Fonds — Box Coll-1619, Box: Coll-1619 / E2015.23
Identifier: Coll-1619
Scope and Contents

The collection is composed of lithographs, engravings, and woodcuts, notes and news-clippings, drawings, sketches, tracings and water-colours, and photographs of drawings. These feature trees, flowers and leaves, figures, animals and places in the Himalayas and across India... Indian life, forests and gardens.

Dates: 17th-19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Fine "tourist" drawing of a pietra dura flower, mid 19th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1619/10/1
Scope and Contents

Fine "tourist" drawing of a pietra dura flower annotated "poppy as represented upon tomb of Shah Jahan Agra", indicative of Taj Mahal in Agra, India.

Dates: mid 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Drawings and prints collected by Hugh Cleghorn / Folded sheet of an unidentified madras newspaper containing sketches, watercolour paintings, drawings, etching and photographs

Kinneddar, Rose Walk, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2212
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a man standing next to a sun dial on a path surrounded by rose bushes at Kinneddar House and Poultry farm in the early20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Mudar [Madar], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2548
Scope and Contents

Illustration of the plant, Mudar [Madar], or Calotropis gigantea (Crown flower) found near temples in India.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Note about the symbolism of the trinity in the trefoil flower, c1893

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126g/8
Scope and Contents

Note about the symbolism of the trinity in the trefoil flower as observed by Saint Patrick.

Dates: c1893
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Notes on vegetation, 21 May 1877

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/70
Scope and Contents

Notes on the vegetation on Beire-mhòr [A' Bheirbhe Mhòr, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula] which includes blue hyacinth, mountain ash and a 'heath[er] isle about 50 y[a]rds long and 20 wide'.

Dates: 21 May 1877
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

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