TAB XII, Album III J.E. Sowerby

TAB XII, Album III J.E. SowerbyA Chromolithograph plate of culinary root varieties taken from the Album Benary, 1876. The Album contains 28 colour plates in total of vegetable varieties by Ernst Benary which are named in the accompanying page in German, English, French and Russian.

From Sowerby's The florist's delight

Hand-coloured lithographic plate titled 'Rhododendron dalhousiae' from 'The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya' by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911)

Colour engraving entitled 'Amaryllis' by P

alb' from 'Verzameling van Bloemen naar de Natuur geteekend door' (Collection of flowers drawn from nature) by Pieter van Kouwenhoorn

ivy-leaved toadflax)

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

Watercolour on rice paper of plant identified as Magnolia denudata from one of four bound albums of paintings by anonymous Chinese artists purchased by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1912

Hand coloured engraved plate entitled 'Ilex aquifolium' by the artist Ignaz Albrecht

for inclusion in Curtis's Botanical Magazine plate 8930

Eranthis hyemalis'

Illustration of Chrysanthemum Indicum (Chrysanthemum morifolium)

Examples of Turpin's work were held in the collections of the French and Austrian monarchies