Images Dated 2011 September

Coffea plant, Company school

Flowers and beans of Coffea arabica: coffee plant. Watercolour by Manu Lal (c.1798-1911) painted in the Company School style developed by Indian artists for the British East India companies

© RBG KEW

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