Plate LXXXXVI Daffodil

Plate LXXXXVI DaffodilColoured engraved plate from the 1776 publication 'Collection precieuse et enlumine des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tant dans les jardins de la Chine, que dans ceux de l'Europe'. The artists are unknown, the author is Pierre Joseph Buchoz (1731 1807) a French medical doctor who also studied, taught and wrote on botanical and natural history subjects.

a painter of flowers and insects from Brussels

Hand coloured plate from Johann S Kerner's eighteenth century book 'Beschreibung und Abbildung der Bäume und Gestrauche'

Dove Cottage hybrid

Identified as Paeonia russii var Reverchoni by the artist

Plate 13 from J L M Poiret's book 'Lecons de Flore' depicting seed and flower casings printed or painted on vellum

hand-finished stipple engraving entitled Fuchsia écarlate : Fuchsia coccinea

Thomas was a partner at Sunningdale Nurseries in the mid 1940's and Gardens Advisor to the National Trust from 1955

Watercolour on paper of primula from an album titled 'Flores a Petro Holsteyn ad vivum depicti' by the artist Pieter Holsteyn

Cyclamen mini

The work was engraved after Redouté's by Lemaire

allium Guardsman

Watercolour of Hibiscus rosa-sinensis flowers and leaves