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FLO4664397: China rose, Rosa sinica, with white flower and hairy bud. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Watts from an illustration by John Lindley from his own “Rosarum Monographia, or a Botanical History of Roses,” London, Ridgeway, 1820. Lindley (1799-1865) was an English botanist who specialized in roses and orchids. Lindley wrote and illustrated this monograph when just 22 years old. He went on to edit the “” Botanical Register”” from 1829 to 1847. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4664347: Lyell's rose, Rosa lyellii, single white rose with leaves and buds. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Watts from an illustration by John Lindley from his own “Rosarum Monographia, or a Botanical History of Roses,” London, Ridgeway, 1820. Lindley (1799-1865) was an English botanist who specialized in roses and orchids. Lindley wrote and illustrated this monograph when just 22 years old. He went on to edit the “” Botanical Register”” from 1829 to 1847. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4664370: Rosa sericea with pink tinged flowers, buds and large pink thorns. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Watts from an illustration by John Lindley from his own “Rosarum Monographia, or a Botanical History of Roses,” London, Ridgeway, 1820. Lindley (1799-1865) was an English botanist who specialized in roses and orchids. Lindley wrote and illustrated this monograph when just 22 years old. He went on to edit the “” Botanical Register”” from 1829 to 1847. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4664421: Spreading Carolina rose, Rosa laxa, with pink rose in flower and rosebud, leaves and thorns. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Watts from an illustration by John Lindley from his own “Rosarum Monographia, or a Botanical History of Roses,” London, Ridgeway, 1820. Lindley (1799-1865) was an English botanist who specialized in roses and orchids. Lindley wrote and illustrated this monograph when just 22 years old. He went on to edit the “” Botanical Register”” from 1829 to 1847. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4666970: A walking saleswoman holding a paper cone filled with strawberries and carrying a basket of fruit on her head, in front of the fruit and vegetable market in Covent Garden (London). Wooden engraving, published in The Cris of London: with six charming children and nearly 40 illustrations, by Andrew Tuer, Ždition Field and Tuer, in London in 1883. / Bridgeman Images