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Nice link to my native south Wales today via @RHSLibraries. 'Plantae Japonica', a series of 19th-century watercolours of iconic Japanese plants donated by the influential Horticulturalist Reginal Cory,the son of the shipping and coal magnate,John Cory, who resided at @NTDyffrynG
'Magnolia × soulangeana 'Alexandriana [sic]' (1930), watercolour and pencil on board, by Laurence Stanley Perugini. Perugini was awarded a Silver Grenfell Medal by @The_RHS in 1931 for 'fruit and vegetable paintings'. @rhslibraries #InternationalDayOfHappiness #SpringEquinox2018
Our @rhslibraries collections contain some really special works,including those of Elizabeth Blackwell (1707-1758),Scottish botanical illustrator and author,best known for"A Curious Herbal"(1739) -a reference work on medicinal plants for physicians and apothecaries. #IWD2018
Happy #InternationalFunatWorkDay! We @RHSLibraries had great fun bringing Mark Catesby's 1754 'Pica cristata coerulea, The Crested Jay' to life! Colour engraved plate from 'The #NaturalHistory of #Carolina'
Happy #NationalBirdDay to our #American friends across the pond! Here are two coloured engraved plates of 'the crested jay' and 'the red bird' from Mark Catesby's 1754 publication 'The Natural History of #Carolina, #Florida and the #BahamaIslands'. @RHSLibraries #London
Here's a #Victorian #Christmas card featuring #poinsettia and #orchids from @The_RHS #LindleyLibrary #Ephemera collection to get you in the #festive spirit this Monday morning!
Happy #Tuliptuesday from @The_RHS #lindleylibrary. Watercolour on paper of a tulip cultivar attributed to the artist August Wilhelm Sievert from the album 'Hortus florum imaginum' (c.1730)
A taster of some of our #hairy #botanical artwork @The_RHS #LindleyLibrary. The early green hairy #gooseberry. Engraved by S. Watts after an original by Augusta Withers. The Pomological Magazine, 1828. #HairyArchives #ExploreArchives
Just returned from #China.Getting very excited for opening of @The_RHS #LindleyLibrary #collectingintheclouds #exhibition on #Monday!Explore history of plant collectors George Forrest, Reginald Farrer, William Purdom + Frank Kingdon-Ward in early 20C China https://t.co/ks6Mvv7Zw4
Here's Sydenham T Edwards's (1768-1819) watercolour of Coffee Arabica from @The_RHS #LindleyLibrary for everyone's #CoffeeMorning today!