Reverend John Ray, AM, FRS, naturalist, author of Historia Plantarum, 1627-1705. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by William Holl after a portrait by Mrs. Mary Beale from Dr. Robert John Thornton’s New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus, the Temple of Flora, London, 1804.

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