FLO4582072: Asian crinum or large crinum or crinum lily - Giant crinum lily, Crinum asiatium (Plaited leaved crinum, Crinum plicatum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Swan after an illustration by William Jackson Hooker from Samuel Curtis's “” Botanical Magazine,”” London, 1829. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4582123: Cachiman, corossolier or anone heart of beef, fruit and section - Netted custard apple, Annona reticulata, fruit and section. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Swan after an illustration by Rev. L. Guilding from Samuel Curtis's “” Botanical Magazine,” London, 1829. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4582637: Splendid hibiscus, Hibiscus splendens. Illustration drawn by James MacNab, engraved by Swan. Handcolored copperplate engraving from William Curtis's “” The Botanical Magazine,”” Samuel Curtis, 1830. Hooker (1785-1865) was an English botanist, writer and artist. He was Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, and editor of Curtis' “” Botanical Magazine”” from 1827 to 1865. In 1841 he was appointed director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, and was succeeded by his son Joseph Dalton. Hooker documented the fern and orchid crazes that shook England in the mid-19th century in books such as “” Species Filicum”” (1846) and “” A Century of Orchidaceous Plants”” (1849). A gifted botanical artist himself, he wrote and illustrated “” Flora Exotica”” (1823) and several volumes of the “” Botanical Magazine”” after 1827. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4582778: Mexican poppy variety - Mexican tulip poppy, Hunnemannia fumariifolia (Fumitory-leaved hunnemannia, Hunnemannia fumariaefolia). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Swan after an illustration by William Jackson Hooker from Samuel Curtis's “” Botanical Magazine,”” London, 1831. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4583258: Indian Wood - Bay rum tree, Pimenta racemosa (wild clove tree, Myrcia acris), native to the Caribbean. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Swan after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from Samuel Curtis' “” Botanical Magazine,”” London, 1832., Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images