Oval portrait of William Curtis, FLS, apothecary, botanist and publisher, author of the Flora Londinensis and The Botanical Magazine, 1746-1799. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving by William Evans from Dr. Robert John Thornton’s New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus, the Temple of Flora, London, 1802.

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