Antique Illustrations of Victoria

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Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe
Gand, L. van Houtte, Hand-coloured lithographs
Images from Meemelink
 

 

 

 

 

Above and left - 1847

 

Right and below - 1850-1851

 

 

 

 

 

Sir William Jackson Hooker
Victoria regia; or Illustrations of the Royal Water-lily
Chromolithographs by Walter Hood Fitch
London: Reeve and Benham, 1851


Image from
The New York Botanical Garden
< "Victoria regia -
Opening Flower"

 
Image from
Taiwan Botanical Art Website

 

VICTORIA REGIA, OR THE GREAT WATER LILY
OF AMERICA.
ILLUSTRATIONS BY WILLIAM SHARP
Images
© The University of Kansas Spencer Museum of Art

 

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