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Botanical illustration

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

Hand coloured engraving from Flora Danica, 19th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1619/16
Scope and Contents

Hand coloured engraving from Flora Danica, plate CCLXXX (280) - (Arundo Calamagrostis L. = Calamagrostis lanceolata).

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

Hand coloured engraving from Georg Christian Oeder's Flora Danica, 19th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1619/31
Scope and Contents

Hand-coloured engraving from Georg Christian Oeder's Flora Danica, plate 291.

Dates: 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Drawings and prints collected by Hugh Cleghorn
H.M.S. Challenger Moored at St. Paul's Rocks, Aug 28/73
H.M.S. Challenger Moored at St. Paul's Roc...

HMS Challenger Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-46
Scope and Contents At Gen.28-31 the Challenger Papers contain sheets of plates illustrating various marine life forms, and original drawings of marine life forms; engravings, lithographs, photographs, etc. of marine life forms; drawing and engravings of Challenger equipment; and, statistical material, graphs, charts and maps. There are drawings, engravings and photographs of Challenger personnel at various tasks, and of Challenger and its interiors; and, pictures of people and places (not Challenger...
Dates: 1872-1876
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Hydnocarpus inebriates, 1833

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1619/15/3
Scope and Contents

Hydnocarpus inebrians (with date 1833 mentioned in red chalk).

Dates: 1833
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Drawings and prints collected by Hugh Cleghorn / Drawings by Rungiah

Hydrangea Paniculata, 19th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1619/12/2
Scope and Contents

Hydrangea Paniculata var. grandiflora "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 / Brown pocket containing two chromolithographs

Madras nature print of a single palmate leaf (?Bombax), 19th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1619/32
Scope and Contents

Madras nature print of a single palmate leaf (?Bombax) [Many similar in the Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh collection].

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

Madras nature print of leaf of Mahonia leschenaultii, 19th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1619/34
Scope and Contents

Madras nature print of leaf of Mahonia leschenaultii (paired).

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

Madras nature print of vegetative shoot (paired), 19th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1619/33
Scope and Contents

Madras nature print of vegetative shoot (paired).

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

Parochetus Communis and Smithia Ciliata, 19th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1619/22/4
Scope and Contents

Parochetus communis and Smithia ciliata copied from plate 35.

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>

Photograph of a drawing of rural scene, mid 19th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1619/10/12
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a drawing of rural scene, annotated "Borassus, Cucurbitaceae Thespesia populnea, Acacia speciosa".

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

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