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Azuma Shibori Frame:nonePrinted illustration of a chrysanthemum variety 'Azuma Shibori' taken from the Japanese publication A Hundred Chrysanthemums by K Hasegawa.

This is taken from one of ten volumes known as 'Hooker's Fruits' which were commissioned by the RHS to help standardise the nomenclature of cultivated fruit

Watercolour of Amelanchier ovalis by John Curtis

Plate 2 from J L M Poiret's book 'Lecons de Flore' depicting vegetation types printed or painted on vellum

William Curtis founded the magazine in 1787 after he left the Chelsea Physic Garden to establish his own botanic garden in Lambeth Marsh

The publication contains 144 colour plates of flowers with some including insects and is dedicated to the princesses Louise and Marie d'Orléans

London: [1812]

published in Curtis's Botanical Magazine

Watercolour on paper of Meconopsis grandis (Himalayan blue poppy) by Lilian Snelling

for inclusion in Curtis's Botanical Magazine plate 8930

Watercolour on vellum illustration of Portlandia grandiflora by Margaret Meen dated 1789

attributed to the Chinese artist or collector Wang Lui Chi

a humorous book attributing human characteristics to vegetables