Ilex Type:watercolour print

Ilex Type:watercolour printWatercolour of Ilex (holly) by Caroline Maria Applebee painted c. 1833.

His famous published works also include 'Les Roses'

A Chromolithograph plate of Mangold Wurzel varieties taken from the Album Benary

Watercolour on paper by an unidentified Chinese artist depicting a White Eye feeding on Prunus blossom

Plate 18 from J L M Poiret's book 'Lecons de Flore' depicting flower types printed or painted on vellum

Trifolium aureum and Stellaria graminea

Ink drawing of Hellborus lividus by Graham Stuart Thomas

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

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

The Yokohama nurseries supplied catalogues of plants for sale overseas

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

attributed to the Chinese artist or collector Wang Lui Chi

Belgian born Redouté achieved success as a painter working for the French royal court as a tutor to Marie Antoinette and later from 1798 was appointed to paint the flowers of Malmaison by Josephine Bonaparte