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Pierre Jean François Turpin was born in 1775. He learned botany from his collaborator Pierre Antoine Poiteau, but taught himself how to draw; and he didn’t do too bad a job judging by these fine examples held in the Lindley Library.

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2020-03-11

Sarah Crease (1826-1922) artist, diarist & daughter of botanist John Lindley, spent her early life in Her botanical illustrations were included in her father's publications Gardener's Chronicle & The Vegetable Kingdom https://t.co/w5upFanAw4

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2020-03-08

Congratulations to student Abigail Lindley for having her drawing selected to move onto the final round of competition for the Ohio Governor’s Youth Art Exhibition.

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2020-03-08

This the Lindley Library has some great titles for green-fingered and artistic inspiration! Visit our lovely library in central London: https://t.co/RRS6m0eTR6

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2020-03-05

Please enjoy these illustrations from v.1 of the revised edition of 'Paxton’s Flower Garden' by John Lindley and Sir Joseph Paxton. The color illustrations we are featuring today are by Walter Hood Fitch, a prolific botanical illustrator. Learn more: https://t.co/BqlRhYuoOc

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2020-02-20

"Making fruit attractive in print is not easy."

John Lindley, English horticulturalist and author of Pomologia Britannica (1841), is 's Scientist of the Day!

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2020-02-06

Birthday in the park: John Lindley, 1799-1865, botanist........https://t.co/UYVhXcKtym (Images: Wellcome)

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2020-02-05

German botanist and entomologist George Dionysius Ehret was born in 1708. He was also a dab hand at illustration, as can be seen in his work of the 1750s 'Plantae and rariores papiliones', a copy of which is housed at the RHS Lindley Library.

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2020-01-30

The Austrian botanical artist Ferdinand Lukas Bauer was born in 1760. The RHS Lindley Library holds some beautiful watercolour foxgloves by Bauer, which were published in John Lindley’s ‘Digitalium Monographia’ (1821).

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2020-01-20

Botanical illustration and the park: Pomologia Britannica : or, Figures and descriptions of the most important varieties of fruit cultivated in Great Britain, by John Lindley....... 3 vols,
1841, from BHL/Uni California libraries......https://t.co/ZeKQbiXdrm

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2020-01-15

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.

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2020-01-11

This spectacular Red Roman Nectarine was painted by the artist William Hooker. The RHS Lindley Library holds a number of original 19th century botanical illustrations, which were commissioned by the RHS to support early plant identification.

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2020-01-11

“My favourite tree is the Ribston Pippin, said to have been grown from 1 of 3 pips sent to Ribston Hall in Yorkshire from Rouen in the 18th century.” Sylvia Travers, Team Leader .
Images: RHS Lindley Collections / William Hooker

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2019-11-28

Today we present illustrations from Volume One of the revised edition of 'Paxton’s Flower Garden' by John Lindley and Sir Joseph Paxton, revised by Thomas Baines and published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. in London in 1882.

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2019-11-07

LW student, Abigail Lindley’s mixed media project titled “Clear Vision”.

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2019-10-22

Today we've got some gorgeous illustrations for you from Volume One of the revised edition of 'Paxton’s Flower Garden' by John Lindley and Sir Joseph Paxton. See more here: https://t.co/wHjJJaduBD

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2019-08-22

2/ On Christmas morning, the bag would be silently unwrapped, and the rose placed in the lady's bosom for church. The first man who either asks about the rose or plucks it from her bodice (cheeky!), will be her husband. [From Lindley's history of roses]

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2019-08-09

Here are some more summer flower favourites with images from the Lindley Library collection of botanical art.

Can you name them all?

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2019-07-29

Take a look at these flowers from 'Paxton’s Flower Garden' by John Lindley and Sir Joseph Paxton, revised by Thomas Baines and published in London in 1882. These illustrations are by Walter Hood Fitch. https://t.co/81zUAlXaZj

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2019-07-11

Fan of all things flora and fauna? Take a look at this new release from called RHS Botanical Illustration, The Gold Medal Winners by Charlotte Brooks. The book features art by 60 gold medal winners from the Lindley Collections at https://t.co/v6IOBIC4YW

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2019-06-24