Musée No:286.003 Size:A3 - 420mm x 297mm d'Orbigny identified many of the

d'Orbigny identified many of the flowering plant species returned to France from his brother's natural history collecting journeys through South America

Date: circa 1700

in an unheated building in winter directly onto a sandstone surface

Artist: Oliver Goldsmith

The name of this engaging sitter is a mystery

Musée No:286.003 Size:A3 - 420mm x 297mm d'Orbigny identified many of theThe Naturalist's Miscellany or Coloured figures of Natural Objects Artist: George Shaw Date: 1751 1813 George Kearsley Shaw (1751 1813) was an English botanist and zoologist. In 1786 he became the assistant lecturer in botany at Oxford University. He was a co founder of the Linnean Society in 1788, and became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1789.