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Botanical illustration

 Subject

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:

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

Roscoea Alpina and R. purpurea, 19th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1619/22/2
Scope and Contents

Roscoea alpina and R. purpurea copied from plate 89.

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 Illustrations of the Botany of the Himalayan Mountains

Roscoea (now Cautleya) lutea, 19th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1619/22/5
Scope and Contents

Roscoea (now Cautleya) lutea lutea copied from plate 89.

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 Illustrations of the Botany of the Himalayan Mountains

Sterculia guttate, 19th century

 File
Identifier: Col-1619/15/2
Scope and Contents

Sterculia guttata, with a torn small sheet of pencil dissections attached by thorn.

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

"The Potato Disease", 19th century

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Identifier: Coll-1619/12/1
Scope and Contents

"The Potato Disease", Hullmandel and Walton Lithographers showing the external and internal look of a diseased potato.

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

Tracing on paper of illustration taken from John Forbes Royle's Illustrations of the Botany of the Himalayan Mountains of Abies Pindrow and Pinus Gerardiana, 19th century

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Identifier: Coll-1619/21
Scope and Contents

Tracing on thin paper of illustration taken from plates 85 and 86 of John Forbes Royle's Illustrations of the Botany of the Himalayan Mountains, of Abies Pindrow and Pinus Gerardiana.

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