A chronological selection of beautifully illustrated flower drawings.

Introduction; 1. French school, c.1415: Des proprietez des choses; 2. Netherlands school, fifteenth century: Horae: Book of Hours; 3. Netherlands school, 1526: Horae: Book of Hours; 4. Antoine du Pinet: Narcissus pseudo-narcissus L.; 5. Ambrosius Bosschaert the Younger: Tulip; 6. Jacob Marrell: An open wicker basket of flowers in a window embrasure, with a frog and insects; 7. Nicholas Robert: Three broken tulips; 8. Nicholas Robert: Six diverse flowers with an insect and a tropical butterfly; 9. Nicholas Robert: Rose and lavender with birds and a butterfly; 10. French school, seventeenth century: Pasque flower and cowslip with a butterfly; 11. French school, seventeenth century: Bluebell and a drogonfly; 12. Maria Sibylla Merian: Sisyrinchium with two butterflies; 13. Pieter Withoos: Rose of Provence; 14. Pieter Withoos: Digitalis purpurea; 15. Claude Aubriet: Mirabilis dichotoma L.; 16. Herman Henstenburgh: A garland of mixed flowers attached to a wall; 17. Pieter Snyers: Thistles; 18. Michael van Huysum: Mixed flowers in a Chinese vase; 19. Barbara Regina Dietzsch: Iris Germanica; 20. Margareta Barbara Dietzsch: Taraxacum officionale; 21. Georg Dionysius Ehret: Gentiana acaulis; 22. Georg Dionysius Ehret: A rose, seen from behind, with two ranuculus; 23. Georg Dionysius Ehret: Opuntia; 24. Georg Dionysius Ehret: Arum; 25. Georg Dionysius Ehret: Hura crepitans L.; 26. Georg Dionysius Ehret: Musa; 27. Thomas Robins the Elder: A bunch of ornamental flowers tied with a ribbon, surrounded by moths and butterflies; 28. Thomas Robins the Elder: Yucca, Cape marigold and mesembryanthemum; 29. Thomas Robins the Elder: Auriculas in a flower pot; 30. Alexis-Nicolas Perignon the Elder: Rose bush with a butterfly; 31. Augustin Heckel: Horse chestnut; 32. Mary Moser: Mixed flowers in an urn ornamented with the astrological symbol for Aries, on a stone ledge; 33. Dorothée-Anne Vallayer-Coster: Still life of mixed flowers in a glass on a ledge; 34. Friedrich Kirschner: Weeds from a German roadside; 35. Elizabeth Burgoyne: Halimium formosum; 36. Peter Brown: Clematis sp.; 37. Amelia Fancourt: Epilobium; 38. Mary Compton, Countess of Northampton: Amygdalus persica; 39. Antoine Berjon: An urn of poppies and convovulus on a stone ledge; 40. James Sowerby: Iris persica; 41. James Sowerby: Erythronium des canis; 42. Pierre-Joseph Redouté: Magnolia macrophylla; 43. Pierre-Joseph Redouté: Paeonia suffruticosa; 44. Francis Bauer: A surround of mixed flowers framing a manuscript note by Sir Joseph Banks; 45. Ferdinand Bauer: Malvaceae species; 46. Zacharie-Félix Doumet: Spring and summer flowers seen beyond a balustrade, with a view across a river to a distant castle; 47. Jan Frans van Dael: Bouquet of mixed flowers; 48. Pancrace Bessa: Potted auricula; 49. German school, c. 1820: White field rose and dog rose; 50. Henrietta Geertruida Knip: Selenicereus grandiflorus; 51. Patrick Nasmyth: Rumex obtusifolius; 52. Lucy Cust: Paeonia suffruticosa; 53. Nathalie D'Esménard: Noisette Rose; 54. John Lindley: Doryanthes excelsa; 55. Alfred Chandler: Camellia japonica eclipsis; 56. Isabella Selwin: Heliocereus speciosus; 57. Charles Rosenberg: Rosa x centifola 'Bullata'; 58. Cornelius B. Durham: Cattleya dolosa Rchb. fil.; 59. Augusta Innes Withers: Datura rosei; 60. Mrs William Duffield: Fruit and flowers on a straw mat in a window frame; 61. Dominique Dumillier: Flowering branch of a snowball tree with parrot tulips; 62. W. Mussill: Climbing tea roses and a humming bird; 63. Raymond Charles Booth: Antirrhinum; 64. Margaret Stones: Magnolia campbellii.