In recognition of June as National Rose Month this hand colored plate (detail) is offered from an 1807 volume by Robert John Thornton in the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum Library, a branch of Smithsonian Institution Libraries. More illustrations of flowers from this publication, titled in part, New illustration of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus : comprehending an elucidation of the several parts of the fructification ; a prize dissertation on the sexes of plants, a full explanation of the classes, and orders, of the sexual system…, can be seen by clicking this link to the Smithsonian Institution Libraries’ Galaxy of Images.
