Images Dated 2011 September

Coffea plant, Company Art

Flowers and beans of Coffea arabica: coffee plant. Watercolour by Manu Lall, an example of Company Art, 19th century commissioned from Indian artists by British East India Company employees and associates

© RBG KEW

Art, Artist, Beans, Beverage, Coffea, Coffea Arabica, Color, Colour, Company Art, Company School, Drink, East India Company, Flowers, Illustration, Leaves, Manu Lall, Painting, Styles

Portrait of Charles Darwin, 1868, by Julia Margaret Cameron

Portrait of Charles Darwin, 1868, by Julia Margaret Cameron. The photograph is signed by Darwin with the inscription "I like this photograph very much better than any other which has been taken."

© RBG KEW

1868, Black And White, Charles Darwin, Collector, History, Julia Margaret Cameron, Kew, Mono, Monochrome, Plant Collectors, Plant Hunter, Plant Hunting, Portrait, Profile, Royal Botanic Gardens

Conium maculatum

Illustration of Conium maculatum or common hemlock from English Botany, or Coloured Figures of British Plants, vol. 4, plate 629

© The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Botanic, Common Hemlock, English Botany, Illustration, Plant, Poisonous