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Greater and Lesser Periwinkle from the wonderful Diana Ruth Wilson botanical watercolour collection at the museum #BotanicMonday
#womensart #wildflower #dorsethour
More signs of spring from Diana Ruth Wilson (1886-1969); come and see all 194 of our botanical watercolours #BotanicMonday #womensart #wildflower
European frogbit (Hydrocharis morsus-ranae) has become invasive in eastern Canada & the northeastern United States. #SciArt from "Flora von Deutschland", Bd. 4 (1905). In #BHLib via @Kew_LAA: https://t.co/SLxJsxDQ8f #BotanicMonday
It's #CherryBlossom Season, so for #BotanicMonday we're featuring the North Japanese hill cherry (Prunus sargentii). #SciArt by Matilda Smith & lithographed by John Nugent Fitch for "Curtis's Botanical Magazine" v. 137 (1911). In #BHLib via @mobotgarden: https://t.co/cKHP6NeC4W
Another drawing from the Diana Ruth Wilson Botanical collection c.1906-14
#BotanicMonday #womensart #wildflower #dorsethour
Should be seeing the Early Purple Orchid soon; Diana Ruth Wilson (1886-1969) painted many different orchids around Sherborne at the turn of the C20th #BotanicMonday #Orchid #womensart #wildflowerhour #dorsethour
#BotanicMonday: Blue Passionflower (Passiflora caerulea). #SciArt by Mary Ann Burnett for her Plantae Utiliores, Vol. 1 (1842). Contributed to #BHLib by the Research Library of @FieldMuseum: https://t.co/tqziBkNZli #WomensHistoryMonth #WomeninBHLib #WomenInScience #WomenArtists
Fritillaries from the Diana Ruth Wilson collection #BotanicMonday #womensart #wildflower #dorsethour
Yate (Eucalyptus cornuta) is native to Western Australia. #SciArt by Walter Hood Fitch for "Curtis's Botanical Magazine" v. 101 (1875). Contributed to #BHLib by @mobotgarden: https://t.co/3AApL9D3oE #BotanicMonday #BHLCurtis #plantsci
#BotanicMonday: Rhododendron discolor is native to many high altitude regions of #China. #SciArt by Matilda Smith for Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 143 (1917). Contributed to #BHLib by the Peter H. Raven Library of the @mobotgarden: https://t.co/LT7c3qtv9C
The Greater Periwinkle from our botanical watercolour collection (Diana Ruth Wilson, 1886-1969) #BotanicMonday #womensart #wildflower
"Nederlandsch Bloemwerk" (1794) was produced as a sampler of the wide variety of #tulips, #hyacinths, auriculas, & other #flowers available from Dutch nurserymen. Explore the 53 hand-colored engraved plates in #BHLib via @HarvardLibrary: https://t.co/cvYNu43WL8 #BotanicMonday
Ox-lip by Diana Ruth Wilson (1886-1969), slightly less common now in the locality of Sherborne #BotanicMonday #Womensart #wildflower
Orchid Cactus (Disocactus ackermannii) for #BotanicMonday featuring #redflowers & #purpleflowers. We have a suggestion to start #CactusMonday, which sounds good to me! #SciArt by John Nugent Fitch for The Floral Magazine, New Ser., Vol. 9 (1880) in #BHLib: https://t.co/8cZdRsZN6Q
Red & Purple #Fuchsias for #BotanicMonday! Floral #SciArt by Worthington G. Smith for The Floral Magazine, Vol. 9 (1870). Today's theme is #redflowers and #purpleflowers. View more in #BHLib: https://t.co/CrVm3VkYk9
Chilly violets for a snowy week ahead - the heating is on in the museum for winter opening Tuesday and Thursday am 10.30-12.30, so come and view all 200 Diana Ruth Wilson watercolours #BotanicMonday #womensart #wildflowerhour
Signs of spring with delicate anemones (wind flowers) opening up - from the Diana Ruth Wilson collection of botanical watercolours #BotanicMonday #Womensart #wildflower
Some of these are already flowering - primroses from the Wilson watercolour collection #BotanicMonday #womensart #wildflower
Irises by Diana Ruth Wilson (1886-1969) from nearly 200 paintings of hers in our watercolour collection of local flora #BotanicMonday #womensart #wildflowers
Beginning to show now.... celandines from Diana Ruth Wilson's collection of West Dorset flora #BotanicMonday #womensart #wildflower