Plate VI Size:medium

Plate VI Size:mediumWatercolour on paper of Boletus and Agaricus with some insect species identified and named as Gold Spot moth and Wood Argus butterfly. The work is attributed to Thomas Robins the Elder, an English landscape and flower artist who trained as a fan painter.

hand-finished stipple engraving entitled Althea Frutex : Hibiscus Syriacus

Thomas is recognised as a horticulturalist

by Lilian Snelling

from William Jowett Titford: Sketches towards a hortus botanicus americanus

Watercolour on paper depicting Crown Imperial Lily from an album titled 'Flores a Petro Holsteyn ad vivum depicti' by the artist Pieter Holsteyn

Watercolour on paper of the Morocco Plum by William Hooker

There is evidence to suggest that towards the end of the 19th Century they began to trade collectively as one company

Watercolour of Rhododendron arborescens by John Curtis

Thomas was a partner at Sunningdale Nurseries in the mid 1940s and Gardens Advisor to the National Trust from 1955

Plate 56 from J L M Poiret's book Lecons de Flore depicting a Passiflora (passion flower) printed on vellum

Watercolour entitled Rosa Chinensis by Caroline Maria Applebee painted c

Watercolour on rice paper of plant identified as Canna indica from one of four bound albums of paintings by anonymous Chinese artists purchased by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1912