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FLO4597605: Eurasian jay, Garrulus glandarius, spotted nutcracker, Nucifraga caryocatactes, and European roller, Coracias garrulus. Handcoloured engraving on steel by Anneshower after a drawing by Edouard Travies from Richard's “” New Edition of the Complete Works of Comte de Buffon,”” Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1837. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4598740: Agave d'Américique - American aloe or century plant, Agave americana, with engraving of full plant behind colored illustration of flowers. Handcoloured zincograph by Chabots drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her “” Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants,”” Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was chiefly by her late brother, British botanist Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4598918: Long-bracted eria orchid, Eria bractescens. Mirror image of the illustration by Miss Sarah Drake in the Botanical Register, 1844. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her “” Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants,”” Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was chiefly by her late brother, British botanist Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4599079: Lily of the valley, Convallaria majalis. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her “” Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants,”” Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was chiefly by her late brother, British botanist Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4599127: White mustard or seneve and black mustard or seneve noir - White and black mustard, Sinapis alba and Sinapis nigra. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her “” Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants,”” Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was chiefly by her late brother, British botanist Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4599008: Dwarf begonia variete - Dwarf wild begonia, Begonia dregei (Drege's begonia, Begonia dregii). Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her “” Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants,”” Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was chiefly by her late brother, British botanist Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4599017: Horseradish - Horseradish, Cochlearia armoracia. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her “” Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants,”” Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was chiefly by her late brother, British botanist Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4599288: Zedoaire (turmeric) - White turmeric, kentjur or zedoary, Turmeric zedoaria. Taken from Stephenson and Churchill's “Medical Botany.” Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her “” Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants,”” Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was chiefly by her late brother, British botanist Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4599336: Musk narcissus - Wild daffodil, Narcissus moschatus. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her “” Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants,”” Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was chiefly by her late brother, British botanist Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4595076: Peach varieties, Prunus persica: Johnson's Late Purple Peach, Mr. Padley's and Violette Hative. Handcoloured stipple engraving of an illustration by George Brookshaw from his own “” Pomona Britannica,”” London, Longman, Hurst, etc., 1817. The quarto edition of the original folio edition published from 1804-1812. Brookshaw (1751-1823) was a successful cabinet maker who disappeared in the 1790s before returning as a flower painter with the anonymous “” New Treatise on Flower Painting,””” 1797. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4595086: Peach varieties, Prunus persica: Montauban, blossom, Grosse Mignonne and Old Royal George. Handcoloured stipple engraving of an illustration by George Brookshaw from his own “” Pomona Britannica,”” London, Longman, Hurst, etc., 1817. The quarto edition of the original folio edition published from 1804-1812. Brookshaw (1751-1823) was a successful cabinet maker who disappeared in the 1790s before returning as a flower painter with the anonymous “” New Treatise on Flower Painting,””” 1797. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4595333: Apple varieties, Malus domestica: Pomme d'Api, Padly's Pippin and Bigg's Nonsuch. Handcoloured stipple engraving of an illustration by George Brookshaw from his own “” Pomona Britannica,”” London, Longman, Hurst, etc., 1817. The quarto edition of the original folio edition published from 1804-1812. Brookshaw (1751-1823) was a successful cabinet maker who disappeared in the 1790s before returning as a flower painter with the anonymous “” New Treatise on Flower Painting,””” 1797. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4595371: Apple varieties, Malus domestica: Red Streak, Cockagee cider apple, Mincham's Crab, and French Crab apple. Handcoloured stipple engraving of an illustration by George Brookshaw from his own “” Pomona Britannica,”” London, Longman, Hurst, etc., 1817. The quarto edition of the original folio edition published from 1804-1812. Brookshaw (1751-1823) was a successful cabinet maker who disappeared in the 1790s before returning as a flower painter with the anonymous “” New Treatise on Flower Painting,””” 1797. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4595431: Variable oriole and butterfly - Yellow-shouldered oriole, Icterus pyrrhopterus (Emberiza longicauda) and green-banded swallowtail, Papilio phorcas. In the possession of Marmaduke Tunstall. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Peter Brown from his New Illustrations of Zoology. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4596043: The Royal Crimson, Jacinth's species. Hyacinth hybrid, Hyacinthus orientalis. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz 'Precious and illuminated collection of the most beautiful and curious flowers, grown both in the gardens of China and in those of Europe, Paris, 1776. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4596851: The Dehorne. Tree with red berries. Named for de Horne, physician to the Comtesse d'Artois. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz 'Precious and illuminated collection of the most beautiful and curious flowers, grown both in the gardens of China and in those of Europe, Paris, 1776. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4596983: Dogwood from China. Wintersweet or Japanese allspice, Chimonanthus praecox. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz 'Precious and illuminated collection of the most beautiful and curious flowers, grown both in the gardens of China and in those of Europe, Paris, 1776. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4597199: China's red water lily. Sacred lotus, Nelumbo nucifera, and Mandarin duck, Aix galericulata. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz 'Precious and illuminated collection of the most beautiful and curious flowers, grown both in the gardens of China and in those of Europe, Paris, 1776. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4593502: Pneumatics: flasks for the artificial production of Pyrmont water, thermometers by James Kewley and John Leslie, wind gauges by James Lind, Martin and Pierre Bouguer, and an echo device, the Whispering Place. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after an illustration by J. Farey from Abraham Rees' “” Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary,” London, 1816. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4593670: Repeating circle without reflection invented by Etienne Lenoir, assistant to Jean-Charles de Borda, in 1784. Copperplate engraving by Sydney Hall after a drawing by J. Farey Jr. from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4593692: Details of the astronomical clock made by the Scottish clockmaker Thomas Reid in 1791. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey Jr. from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820. / Bridgeman Images