William Curtis and other gentlemen botanists collecting plant specimens in a rural landscape, England, 18th century. Frontispiece to Flora Londinensis. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving 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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