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@JuanAnt85311975 @ErandiRR Happy Birthday! Here is Dahlia pinnata painted by Sydenham Teast Edwards in 1816 - from our collections at the Lindley Library in London

@ana_captures @Sanditon We have this lovely watercolour titled 'Aubepine' and intitialled 'E.S' [crataegus, hawthorn] taken from volume I of 'Flore du désert: receuil des fleurs odorantes dans un coin consacré à une amie', a work produced by an unidentified French artist. We think circa 1800

@AnnieOdyne @StuartKells @JANUSZCZAK Absolutely - we have lots of amazing peony artwork from Eastern and Western art like this watercolour of Paeonia (peony) flowers and leaves, attributed to the Chinese artist or collector Wang Lui Chi. Date: circa 1800.

@craftybookworm Here is a watercolour from the mid 1600s depicting flowers identified as daisy, forget-me-not, Narcissus and pansy from an album titled 'Flores a Petro Holsteyn ad vivum depicti' by the artist Pieter Holsteyn.

@FiShoop @BotanyRocks Yes of course - here is a 17th century watercolour on vellum of Harebell, Scottish Bluebell, from the album 'Fiori Bottan' in our collection. Hope you enjoy!

For #WoodcutWednesday we have some wonderful hand-coloured prints from ‘Plantarum, arborum, fruticum, et herbarum effigies’ published in Frankfurt in 1652. #RareBooks

The RHS Lindley Library holds an important collection of 16th and 17th century herbals, including a copy of Pietro Andrea Gregorio Mattioli’s Kreutterbuch (1586) which features hand-coloured illustrations. #RareBooks

RHS Libraries hold a number of stunning illustrations by significant botanical artists, including Lilian Snelling (1879-1972), Caroline Maria Applebee (c.1799-1854) and Augusta Innes Withers (c.1791-1876).
#BotanicalArt

Seaweed collecting was a popular Victorian pastime, with enthusiasts including Queen Victoria and George Eliot. ‘Ocean flowers and their teachings’ (1846) contains pressed seaweed specimens and was perfect for budding phycologists!
#RareBooks #Phycology

Orchid fans! Missing the @The_RHS Orchid Show? We are. Here is a beautiful portrait of Cattleya Cariad's Mini-Quinee
'Angel Kiss' painted by @DeborahLambkin