Iris Akashi-No-Ue Lily

Iris Akashi-No-Ue LilyColour woodblock print of Iris Akashi No Ue from the catalogue of the Yokohama nursery of Seitaro Arai which specialised in Iris kaempferi. The Yokohama nurseries supplied catalogues of plants for sale overseas, there is evidence to suggest that towards the end of the 19th Century they began to trade collectively as one company. Date: c. 1890's.

Watercolour of Viola tricolor flowers and leaves by Caroline Maria Applebee

Watercolour on paper by Augusta Innes Withers of Ribes sanguineum (Red-flowering Currant)

Watercolour on paper by Augusta Innes Withers of the gooseberry Crompton's Sheba Queen

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

This plate was drawn by I

hand-finished stipple engraving entitled Cyclamen

published in Curtis's Botanical Magazine

Watercolour on paper dated 1828 and entitled Blighia

Attributed to the Chinese artist or collector Wang Lui Chi

Watercolour on paper of Boletus and Agaricus with some insect species identified and named as Gold-Spot moth and Wood Argus butterfly

there is evidence to suggest that towards the end of the 19th Century they began to trade collectively as one company

Ink drawing of Hosta