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Hand-coloured botanical etching showing many flowers, fruits and flower parts in a grid, with the word BOTANY printed across the top.

Fifty-four flowers, fruit and floral segments, coloured etching, 1799

A hand-coloured etching arranged as a grid of botanical specimens: flowers in pink, yellow, blue and white, with fruits, stamens, pistils and sectioned floral parts. A printed header reads BOTANY and a caption at the foot reads Parts constituting the Flower and Fructification. Numbered labels mark individual parts.

Artist
Wilkes, John, -1810
Date
29 July 1799
Medium
Book illustrations Etchings
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
3220 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1799.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection

Natural HistoryAnatomy and Medicine18th century1790s1799botanical illustrationetchinghand-colored printnatural historyflowersbotanyfruitplant morphologyflower anatomystamens

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