Shrubby peony, Paeonia moutan. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and engraved by William Clark from Richard Morris's "Flora Conspicua" London, Longman, Rees, 1826. William Clark was former draughtsman to the London Horticultural Society and illustrated many botanical books in the 1820s and 1830s.

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