Images Dated 2020

An exact plan of the Royal Palace Gardens and Park at Richmond, 1754

Engraving representing 'An exact plan of of the Royal Palace Gardens and Park at Richmond with Sion House on the opposite side o the River Thames. Survy'd and published by John Rocque Chorographer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales', 1754. Shows Hermitage, Merlin's Cave and Dairy House. Colour, scale 1500ft for 1/2 mile

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Moth orchid (Phalaenopsis), 1847

Hand-coloured lithograph on paper by Walter Hood Fitch, 1847. Artwork from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, volume 73, plate 4297. Curtis's Botanical Magazine is the longest running botanical periodical featuring colour illustrations of plants and has been published continuously since 1787

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Lycaste aromatica, 1827

Illustration of Lycaste aromatica by Robert Kaye Greville and engraved by Joseph Swan. Artwork from Exotic flora: containing figures and descriptions of new, rare or otherwise interesting exotic plants...with remarks upon their generic and specific characters, natural orders, history, culture, time of flowering by William Jackson Hooker, 1827; volume 3, t. 219

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