Apatura iris Frame:gold

Apatura iris Frame:goldEngraving of Apatura iris, Purple Emperor Butterfly, depicting the adult and caterpillar. One of 769 hand coloured plates from Curtis's British Entomology. vol. 3. pl. 388. 1823 1840.

Painted at Colesbourne in April 1915

Colour engraved plate from Volume 7 of Pierre-Joseph Redouté's 'Les Liliacées'

Illustration of twenty-five American plants

Thomas was a partner at Sunningdale Nurseries in the mid 1940's and Gardens Advisor to the National Trust from 1955

Erythronium revolutum

Plate 20 from J L M Poiret's book 'Lecons de Flore' depicting flower types printed or painted on vellum

by Margaret Meen painted c

Hand coloured engraving of Lilium auratum (golden-striped Lily) by Walter Hood Fitch from Curtis's botanical magazine 1862

Watercolour of Mint by Pierre François Ledoulx

White Maiden-hair) by J

Plate from Josiah Conder's book 'The flowers of Japan and the art of floral arrangement' depicting people in traditional dress viewing maple trees in a garden setting

Watercolour on paper depicting a passion flower and butterfly taken from an album titled 'Flores a Petro Holsteyn ad vivum depicti' by the artist Pieter Holsteyn