Oval portrait of William Curtis, FLS, botanist and publisher, author of the Flora Londinensis and The Botanical Magazine., 1746-1799. Frontispiece to Flora Londinensis showing Curtis and other botanists collecting plant specimens. 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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