The Scarlet Bueree Pear Size:extra large

The Scarlet Bueree Pear Size:extra largeWatercolour by William Hooker of The Scarlet Bueree Pear 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.

a painter of flowers and insects from Brussels

hand-finished stipple engraving entitled Althea Frutex : Hibiscus Syriacus

It dates from the early nineteenth century and is painted on European paper

Purple Emperor Butterfly

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

The Main Borders at RHS Garden Harlow Carr

Watercolour by Barbara Cotton of the apple 'Bell's Scarlet'

illustrated by the French artist Amedée Varin (1818-1883)

Erythronium revolutum Johnsonii Group

London: [1789-1791]

Watercolour on vellum of Vanilla plenifolia flowers (vanilla) by Claude Aubriet

a humorous book attributing human characteristics to vegetables