Subject: Plants / Level: [40] File - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Tab.442.a.14(18)
Title:: Queen Anne's oak. Height 60 feet. Circumference 15 feet 3 inches. Probable age 400 years. Photographer: Caithness (Earl of) or Bembridge
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography Facing p. 39. View of the tree, taken in the winter, with a figure posed near the base.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1864
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Tab.442.a.14(19)
Title:: Group of young trees near the Royal Chapel. Photographer: Caithness (Earl of) or Bembridge
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography Facing p. 40. View of the group of trees, taken in winter, with figures posed in the foreground.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1864
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Tab.442.a.14(20)
Title:: Planting of the Prince Consort's memorial tree. Photographer: Caithness (Earl of) or Bembridge
Scope & Content:: Genre: Historical Events Facing p. 49. Group portrait taken on the occasion of the planting of the oak by Queen Victoria in Windsor Great Park, in memory of Prince Albert. The figures included in the group are identified beneath the print as follows: Queen Victoria in centre, and on the left: B...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 25 Nov 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Tab.443.a.6(3)
Title:: Leafless March (Suffolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography View across open land, with a leafless tree and a boy posed beside a stream in the foreground: 'It was a cold day in March that we took these plates ... On the way, as we were going down a sloping field, Friend Far...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Tab.443.a.6(19)
Title:: A way across the marshes (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography 'In our second plate, far away extends the long, straight marsh-road, with its gleaming dikes on either hand—far away to the windmil, whose arms are lazily turning in the summer breeze. On the road, the thistles gr...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD158
Title:: Banyan tree near Calcutta. Artist(s): Daniell, Thomas (1749-1840), and Daniell, William (1769-1837)
Scope & Content:: Banyan tree near Calcutta. c.1787. Inscribed on back in ink: ‘Nr.109. Bhur tree near Calcutta.’ Pencil and wash; 21.5 by 30 ins. Purchased 8 June 1953.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1787
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD562
Title:: A Red-Cotton Tree in blossom (Bombax cerba) in Barrackpore Park (Bengal). Artist(s): Blyth, Mary Popham (fl. 1866-1868)
Scope & Content:: A Red-Cotton Tree in blossom ‘(Bombax cerba)’ in Barrackpore Park (Bengal). c.1868. Inscribed on back in pencil: ‘Cotton Tree, Barrackpore Park.’ Water-colour; 9.5 by 7.5 ins.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1868
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD609
Title:: A great banyan tree at Malbed, near Homnabad. 24 February 1797. Artist(s): MacKenzie, Colin (1754-1821)
Scope & Content:: (8) A great banyan tree at Malbed, near Homnabad. 24 February 1797. Inscribed on front in ink: ‘Great Banian Tree, Malbed near Homnabad. Feb. 24’.’ 1797.’ Water-colour; 6.75 by 12.5 ins.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1797
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD729
Title:: Talipot Palm (Corphya umbraculifera L.)
Scope & Content:: (55) Talipot Palm (‘Corphya umbraculifera L.’). Water-colour; 18 by 11.5 ins.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1789-1820
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD961
Title:: Album of 278 drawings of landscapes, coastlines, costumes and everyday life made during Lord Macartney's embassy to the Emperor of China. Between 1792 and 1794. Artist(s): Alexander, William (1767-1816)
Scope & Content:: 278 drawings (89 folios) made during the voyage to China and during the embassy. Seven drawings are by other hands: f.8 (28) and f.44 (124) by Sir George Staunton, Secretary to the embassy; ff.59, 59v (157-159) by Captain William Henry Parish, Royal Artillery; f.60v, 61 (161-162) by a Chinese ar...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1792-1794
Extent:: 1 Item

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