Snargle Flurgin

mother to an exellent graphic designer.

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Fuchsia and Fulgora (1805).

Coloured etching by J. Pass (circa 1805) after J. Ihle.   

Image and text information courtesy Wellcome Collection.  CC BY

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Blue Tits on a Teasel (1922) by Archibald Thorburn (1860–1935).

artrenewal.org - Wikimedia.

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‘Warbler and Wrens’ by Archibald Thorburn (1860–1935).

Illustration for ‘Thorburn’s British Birds’ (1913).

Watercolour and bodycolour.

Bonhams Wikimedia.

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Fairy-bells (Disporum hookeri) by Mary Vaux Walcott.

Watercolour on paper (1933).

Image and text information courtesy Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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Western Yarrow (Achillea lanulosa) by Mary Vaux Walcott.

Watercolour on paper (1922).

Image and text information courtesy Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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‘Illustrations of Himalayan Plants’ (chiefly selected from drawings made for the late J.F. Cathcart). Descriptions and analyses by J.D. Hooker, plates executed by W.H. Fitch.

Published 1855 by L. Reeve.

Missouri Botanical Garden. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/permissions.

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Bird illustrations taken from ‘Atlante Ornitologico’ by E. Arrigoni Degli Oddi. 

Published 1902.

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7879912

Wikimedia.

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1) Fringe-leaved Saxifrage

2) Bechtel’s Crab Apple

3) Chinese Redbud

4) Everlasting Pea

5) Starry Magnolia

6) Mrs Thomson’s Clerodendron

7) Thick-leaved Saxifrage

8) Strawflower

9) Oswego-tea

10) ‘Dahliadel Century’ Dahlia.

Illustrations by M.E. Eaton taken from ‘Addisonia’ (Vol 6) by New York Botanical Garden. Published 1916-1964. 

New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library.

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Italian specimen agate and quartz box, circa 1800.

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Botanical illustrations taken from ‘British Wild Flowers’ by Jane Loudon.

Published 1846. Printed by Bradbury and Evans.

Smithsonian Libraries 

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Floral study by Johann Jakob Walther taken from Similacrum Scenographicum Celeberrimi Horti Itzeinensis (1654).

Image and text information courtesy V&A.

© Victoria and Albert Museum, London 2017. All Rights Reserved.

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Paeonies (1650-70) by Johann Jakob Walther.

Watercolour on paper.

Image and text information courtesy V&A.

© Victoria and Albert Museum, London 2017. All Rights Reserved.

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Myron G. Barlow - In the Garden

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Barbara Hirst

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The Orchid Family.

Arts and Crafts-style botanical illustrations by H. Isabel Adams taken from ‘Wild Flowers of the British Isles.’

Published 1907 by William Heinemann.

Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library.

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Lavender Finch.

Illustration taken from ‘Foreign Finches in Captivity’ by Arthur Butler Gardiner.

Published 1889 by Brumby and Clarke Ltd.

University of California Libraries 

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