Anne Pratt (1806-1893): English botanical & ornithological illustrator. Her works are in an accurate style that was partly responsible for the popularising of botany in her day. Her books sold well, but she was not acclaimed due to bourgeois disdain for autodidactic women.

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Gonna try to finally redesign some of the characters I have(and am keeping) on Toyhouse. QuQ
Here's the first one!~

This is Jade, a Pandorus Sphinx moth with a love of girly and sweet things, who is also semi-goth and probably heavily into botany. ouo

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A little late for I specialise in and I work with watercolour and gouache. My favourite subjects are and

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here is a seal, training to be a herbalist! she is secretly a seal princess of an ocean kingdom but studying botany, medicinal plants, and helping people is her calling. don't blow her cover! 🎀🐚🌿

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Happy ! I'm Lianne, an illustrator about to graduate passionate about botany, books, and beautifully illustrated products. I'm currently looking for freelance! 💛

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Flaming torch bromeliads (Billbergia pyramidalis) are terrestrial and epiphytic. from Annales de la Société Royale d'Agriculture et de Botanique de Gand, T.3 (1847), edited by Charles Morren, via Botany Libraries: https://t.co/mRZv5VeD3v

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Botanical illustration and the park: Illustrations of Indian botany :or figures illustrative of each of the natural orders of Indian plants, described in the author's prodromus florae peninsulae Indiae orientalis, by R Wright, 1840-50, BHL/Missouri BG, https://t.co/U2p65ZcHUr

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The sweet pea is one of the flowers associated with April, so for this sunny first day of the month, here are some beautiful pea illustrations!

First one is pisum sativum, from Jean-Jaques Rousseau's Letters on the Elements of Botany.

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Just came across the account of the where they uploaded tons of beautiful to the Check out e.g. these beautiful and by Samouelle 1819!

https://t.co/1sOG36hMeO

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🏔 Illustrations of the botany and other branches of the natural history of the Himalayan Mountains: .
London: Wm. H. Allen, 1839.
https://t.co/XIjQlLMQTL

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Elinor Frances Vallentin collected hundreds of plant specimens from the Falkland Islands. She illustrated many of these in her 1921 work on Falkland Islands botany, which is freely available online in via ➡️ https://t.co/N1E0DPjDtj

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Joining in with so here's a lovely illustration of cardamom, known as ‘chief of all seeds’ by 17thc herbalists due to wide ranging medicinal properties. Was also used in folk medicine as a fertility treatment

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the botany professor, she's neat. pretty relaxed. has lots of weird plants

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Botany babes brewery beer labels! This is a redesign I did from a year ago and I added two more types of beer.

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Botanical illustration and the park: Exotic botany illustrated : in thirty-five figures of elegant Chinese and American shrubs and plants, many of them new..... by John Hill, 1772, BHL/Harvard, https://t.co/PnXLizBYN5

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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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Botanical illustration and the park: A specimen of the botany of New Holland, by James Edward Smith.... with figures by James Sowerby, 1793-1795.......via BHL.....https://t.co/Epy9zBkkfC

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Hi my name is Kenna and I love my 😭❤️ She tolerates many silly hats. I'm working on leveling Botany right now because it's just so relaxing.

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