Plate LXXXI Caroline Maria Applebee

Plate LXXXI Caroline Maria ApplebeeColoured engraved plate from the 1776 publication 'Collection precieuse et enlumine des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tant dans les jardins de la Chine, que dans ceux de l'Europe'. The artists are unknown, the author is Pierre Joseph Buchoz (1731 1807) a French medical doctor who also studied, taught and wrote on botanical and natural history subjects.

hand-finished stipple engraving entitled Phlox Reptans

Watercolour on paper of wild flowers

Colour woodblock print of Iris Saio-Ga-Uma from volume II of the Yokohama nursery catalogue of Seitaro Arai which specialised in Iris kaempferi

Trifolium aureum and Stellaria graminea

Plate 20 from J L M Poiret's book 'Lecons de Flore' depicting flower types printed or painted on vellum

Ipsea speciosa by the artist Harmanis de Alwis Seneviratna from a bound volume of 'Cingalese Drawings'

Quercus (oak tree) in woodland

now bound together

Rubus fruticosus

Eranthis hyemalis'

a work bound in two volumes produced by an unidentified French artist c

Colour woodblock print of Iris Kairakubo from the catalogue of a Yokohama nursery which specialised in Iris kaempferi