Study of a thistle

Common Thistle (Chardon Commun)

George Sand

Botanical Study of a type of Yellow Gentian (genus Gentiana Major) (recto); Botanical Study of the Ascyrum Hypericoides (verso)

Anonymous, French, 19th century

Study of a Crested Cockscomb (Celosia argentea cristata)

Alida Withoos

Botanical Studies

Anonymous, French, 19th century

Scolymus hispanicus (spansk guldtidsel)

Hans Simon Holtzbecker

Botanical Study

Anonymous, French, 19th century

Argemone mexicana (mexicansk pigvalmue)

Hans Simon Holtzbecker

Distel (Carduus) en artisjok (Cynara cardunculus)

Unknown Artist

Botanical Study with a Species of the Nettle Family (genus Urtica)

Anonymous, French, 19th century

Botanical Studies (recto); Botanical Studies (verso)

Anonymous, French, 19th century

Study of Capers, Gorse, and a Beetle

Maria Sibylla Merian

Page from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Painting and Calligraphy

Illustrated by Hu Zhengyan