Flower Drawings

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Introduction
1. French school, c.1415: Des proprietez des choses
2. Netherlands school, fifteenth century: Horae: Book of Hours
3. Netherlands school, 1526: Horae: Book of Hours
4. Antoine du Pinet: Narcissus pseudo-narcissus L.
5. Ambrosius Bosschaert the Younger: Tulip
6. Jacob Marrell: An open wicker basket of flowers in a window embrasure, with a frog and insects
7. Nicholas Robert: Three broken tulips
8. Nicholas Robert: Six diverse flowers with an insect and a tropical butterfly
9. Nicholas Robert: Rose and lavender with birds and a butterfly
10. French school, seventeenth century: Pasque flower and cowslip with a butterfly
11. French school, seventeenth century: Bluebell and a drogonfly
12. Maria Sibylla Merian: Sisyrinchium with two butterflies
13. Pieter Withoos: Rose of Provence
14. Pieter Withoos: Digitalis purpurea
15. Claude Aubriet: Mirabilis dichotoma L.
16. Herman Henstenburgh: A garland of mixed flowers attached to a wall
17. Pieter Snyers: Thistles
18. Michael van Huysum: Mixed flowers in a Chinese vase
19. Barbara Regina Dietzsch: Iris Germanica
20. Margareta Barbara Dietzsch: Taraxacum officionale
21. Georg Dionysius Ehret: Gentiana acaulis
22. Georg Dionysius Ehret: A rose, seen from behind, with two ranuculus
23. Georg Dionysius Ehret: Opuntia
24. Georg Dionysius Ehret: Arum
25. Georg Dionysius Ehret: Hura crepitans L.
26. Georg Dionysius Ehret: Musa
27. Thomas Robins the Elder: A bunch of ornamental flowers tied with a ribbon, surrounded by moths and butterflies
28. Thomas Robins the Elder: Yucca, Cape marigold and mesembryanthemum
29. Thomas Robins the Elder: Auriculas in a flower pot
30. Alexis-Nicolas Perignon the Elder: Rose bush with a butterfly
31. Augustin Heckel: Horse chestnut
32. Mary Moser: Mixed flowers in an urn ornamented with the astrological symbol for Aries, on a stone ledge
33. Dorothée-Anne Vallayer-Coster: Still life of mixed flowers in a glass on a ledge
34. Friedrich Kirschner: Weeds from a German roadside
35. Elizabeth Burgoyne: Halimium formosum
36. Peter Brown: Clematis sp.
37. Amelia Fancourt: Epilobium
38. Mary Compton, Countess of Northampton: Amygdalus persica
39. Antoine Berjon: An urn of poppies and convovulus on a stone ledge
40. James Sowerby: Iris persica
41. James Sowerby: Erythronium des canis
42. Pierre-Joseph Redouté: Magnolia macrophylla
43. Pierre-Joseph Redouté: Paeonia suffruticosa
44. Francis Bauer: A surround of mixed flowers framing a manuscript note by Sir Joseph Banks
45. Ferdinand Bauer: Malvaceae species
46. Zacharie-Félix Doumet: Spring and summer flowers seen beyond a balustrade, with a view across a river to a distant castle
47. Jan Frans van Dael: Bouquet of mixed flowers
48. Pancrace Bessa: Potted auricula
49. German school, c. 1820: White field rose and dog rose
50. Henrietta Geertruida Knip: Selenicereus grandiflorus
51. Patrick Nasmyth: Rumex obtusifolius
52. Lucy Cust: Paeonia suffruticosa
53. Nathalie D'Esménard: Noisette Rose
54. John Lindley: Doryanthes excelsa
55. Alfred Chandler: Camellia japonica eclipsis
56. Isabella Selwin: Heliocereus speciosus
57. Charles Rosenberg: Rosa x centifola 'Bullata'
58. Cornelius B. Durham: Cattleya dolosa Rchb. fil.
59. Augusta Innes Withers: Datura rosei
60. Mrs William Duffield: Fruit and flowers on a straw mat in a window frame
61. Dominique Dumillier: Flowering branch of a snowball tree with parrot tulips
62. W. Mussill: Climbing tea roses and a humming bird
63. Raymond Charles Booth: Antirrhinum
64. Margaret Stones: Magnolia campbellii.

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