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Botanical illustration

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 25 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

Bombax malabaricum, 19th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1619/15/1

Capparis grandis

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1619/15/4

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

Drawings of a Collection of East Indian Plants

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-478
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of drawings from Roxburgh's collection of East Indian plants. These were sent by Nathaniel Wallis (or Wallich) to Robert Wight for the Icones plantarum Indiae orientalis 1840-1853.

Dates: 19th century

Engraved plates from Georg Everhard Rumphius's Herbarium Amboinense, 1741

 File
Identifier: Coll-1619/17
Scope and Contents

Nine uncoloured, engraved plates from Georg Everhard Rumphius's Herbarium Amboinense - from the same series as a larger collection at RBGE (Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh), with early mends with Indian paper annotated "Rumph. Amb'tt. 10, 12, 22, 59, 60, 62, 84, 89, 105".

Dates: 1741

Engraving of Dracophyllum verticillatum, 1800

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1619/35
Scope and Contents

Engraving of Dracophyllum verticillatum from English edition of Labillardiére's Relation du Voyage à la Recherche de la Pérouse. Piron del., Harding ex., Warren sc., published Debrett, Picadilly 1800. [Three further plates from this series are in the Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh's collection].

Dates: 1800

Engraving with plants and figures, 17th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1619/2
Scope and Contents

17th century engraving with plants and figures - Abelmosch (= Abelmoschus), Semsen (= Sesamum), Sambak (= Jasminum): source unkown.

Dates: 17th century