'Fringilla forficata, Rallus tabuensis' PPSS

'Fringilla forficata, Rallus tabuensis' PPSSHand coloured engraved plate entitled 'Fringilla forficata, Rallus tabuensis' from 'Cimelia physica. Figures of rare and curious quadrupeds, birds, &c. together with several of the most elegant plants.'

This is an original watercolour of a Delphinium by John Curtis produced for reproduction in Curtis's Botanical Magazine

Plate 13 from J L M Poiret's book 'Lecons de Flore' depicting seed and flower casings printed or painted on vellum

The magazine continued under the same title until 1983

Colour woodblock print of Iris Bunmei-Kogo from the catalogue of the Yokohama nursery of Seitaro Arai which specialised in Iris kaempferi

Lysimachia nemorum (yellow pimpernel)

Watercolour illustration of Calceolaria 'John Innes' by artist Lilian Snelling

This is taken from one of ten volumes known as 'Hooker's Fruits' commissioned by the RHS to help standardise the nomenclature of cultivated fruit

Illustration of trees from Boehmer & Co's catalogue of Japanese plants

wax apple variety

Appointed OBE in 1975

laciniata leaves in Autumn at RHS Garden Harlow Carr

Belgian born Redouté achieved success as a painter working for the French royal court as a tutor to Marie Antoinette and later from 1798 was appointed to paint the flowers of Malmaison by Josephine Bonaparte