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The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the south, with part of London Wall in the foreground, and a muck-raker scraping at the cobblestones. Etching by J. T. Smith, 1814, after himself, June 1812.

A coal tit on the flowering branch of an Hibiscus plant. Watercolour.

A stand of bushes. Watercolour.

Japanese huts and trees on two outcrops of rock either side of a channel of water. Watercolour.

A man riding an ox through grass and shrub land. Watercolour.

A border of plants from a Roman garden in the 1st century A.D., with the main plants labelled. Photograph.

Steep grassy banks at the water's edge with shrubs and rocks at their base. Watercolour.

A rhododendron (Rhododendron indicum): small flowering shrub in grassland. Watercolour.

A shrub or liane, possibly an Akebia species: branch with grey fruit. Watercolour.

Maple tree (Acer) and black thorn or sloe (Prunus spinosa). Soft-ground etching with aquatint by J. Laporte, c. 1796, after himself.

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A coal tit on the flowering branch of an Hibiscus plant. Watercolour.

A border of plants from a Roman garden in the 1st century A.D., with the main plants labelled. Photograph.

Maple tree (Acer) and black thorn or sloe (Prunus spinosa). Soft-ground etching with aquatint by J. Laporte, c. 1796, after himself.

A stand of bushes. Watercolour.

Japanese huts and trees on two outcrops of rock either side of a channel of water. Watercolour.