FLO4664370: Rosa sericea with pink tinged flowers, buds and large pink thorns. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Watts from an illustration by John Lindley from his own “Rosarum Monographia, or a Botanical History of Roses,” London, Ridgeway, 1820. Lindley (1799-1865) was an English botanist who specialized in roses and orchids. Lindley wrote and illustrated this monograph when just 22 years old. He went on to edit the “” Botanical Register”” from 1829 to 1847. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4661118: Bengal 100-leaf pink, Rosa chinensis variety, Bengal rose (one hundred-leaf). Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving from Pierre Joseph Redoute's “” Les Roses,”” Paris, 1828. Redoute was botanical artist to Marie Antoinette and Empress Josephine. He painted over 170 watercolours of roses from the gardens of Malmaison., Redouté, Pierre Joseph (1759-1840) / Bridgeman Images