Légende

Large Flowering Sensitive Plant: Mimosa grandiflora, 1807. Tropical plant with hummingbirds. From "New illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus: comprehending an elucidation of the several parts of the fructification; a prize dissertation on the sexes of plants; a full explanation of the classes, and orders, of the sexual system; and the Temple of Flora, or Garden of nature, being picturesque, botanical, coloured plates, of select plants, illustrative of the same, with descriptions".

Date

1807

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A16_120

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

49.9Mo (3.4Mo) / 31.5cm x 39.6cm / 3725 x 4683 (300dpi)

Mots clés

nature animal library landscape flower flowers plant plants tropical bird birds exotic mountain mountains science British geography color fern ferns hummingbird botanical century Britain biology nectar concept botany British Library ornithology Colour 19th century mimosa nineteenth century geographical feature Unknown Robert Robert John Thornton Thornton Cyathea Philip Reinagle Reinagle Philip Heritage Art Dr Robert John Thornton Doctor Thornton Robert Thornton R. J. Thornton R. J. Robert John John Robert Ranegal Philip Philip Reinagal Philip Ranegal Reinagale Philip Philip Reinagale 19th-century Mimosa grandiflora John Robert Thornton