Melon de Malaga Size:large

Melon de Malaga Size:largeWatercolour of a melon by Bernard Cromber. Taken from Volume I of 'Regne Vegetal' which contains botanical drawings by at least four identified artists.

hand-finished stipple engraving entitled Rosier de Bancks Var

Hand-coloured printed lithograph entitled Sweet Pea

A Chromolithograph plate of Pea varieties taken from the Album Benary

by Lilian Snelling

published in Paris between 1867 and 1873

Painted at Colesborne

Trifolium aureum and Stellaria graminea

Watercolour of Hibiscus syriacus flowers and leaves

Watercolour of a melon by Bernard Cromber

Artisan Pink Bumble Bee

Belgian born Redouté achieved success as a painter working for the French royal court as a tutor to Marie Antoinette and later from 1798 was appointed to paint the flowers of Malmaison by Josephine Bonaparte

One of a bound volume of 35 paintings of iris made for Ellen Wilmott (1858-1934) which are likely to be varieties from Wilmott's Essex garden Warley Place