South African flower pictures. From 1848 but they probably still look like the same. Taken from Arabella Roupell’s “Specimens of the Flora of South Africa by a Lady.” The first edition and published by the Shakespeare Press.

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Title page, image/page 4. Hand-colored lithographic plate after a drawing by Arabella Roupell. Taken from her work Specimens of the Flora of South Africa by a Lady. Published in 1849 by the Shakespeare Press. Collections of the Peter H. Haven Library, Missouri Botanical Garden via the Biodiversity Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/96817#page/4/mode/1up
Sparaxis pendula. Image/page 14. Hand-colored lithographic plate after a drawing by Arabella Roupell. Taken from her work Specimens of the Flora of South Africa by a Lady. Published in 1849 by the Shakespeare Press. Collections of the Peter H. Haven Library, Missouri Botanical Garden via the Biodiversity Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/96817#page/14/mode/1up
Group of Sparaxis. Image/page 22. Hand-colored lithographic plate after a drawing by Arabella Roupell. Taken from her work Specimens of the Flora of South Africa by a Lady. Published in 1849 by the Shakespeare Press. Collections of the Peter H. Haven Library, Missouri Botanical Garden via the Biodiversity Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/96817#page/22/mode/1up
Group of Iridea. Image/page 18. Hand-colored lithographic plate after a drawing by Arabella Roupell. Taken from her work Specimens of the Flora of South Africa by a Lady. Published in 1849 by the Shakespeare Press. Collections of the Peter H. Haven Library, Missouri Botanical Garden via the Biodiversity Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/96817#page/18/mode/1up
Brunsvigia multiflora. Image/page 30. Hand-colored lithographic plate after a drawing by Arabella Roupell. Taken from her work Specimens of the Flora of South Africa by a Lady. Published in 1849 by the Shakespeare Press. Collections of the Peter H. Haven Library, Missouri Botanical Garden via the Biodiversity Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/96817#page/30/mode/1up
Leucospermum Conocarpum, Protea Speciosa and Protea Lepidodendron. Image/page 34. Hand-colored lithographic plate after a drawing by Arabella Roupell. Taken from her work Specimens of the Flora of South Africa by a Lady. Published in 1849 by the Shakespeare Press. Collections of the Peter H. Haven Library, Missouri Botanical Garden via the Biodiversity Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/96817#page/34/mode/1up
Roupellia grata. Image/page 44. Hand-colored lithographic plate after a drawing by Arabella Roupell. Taken from her work Specimens of the Flora of South Africa by a Lady. Published in 1849 by the Shakespeare Press. Collections of the Peter H. Haven Library, Missouri Botanical Garden via the Biodiversity Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/96817#page/44/mode/1up

Arabella Roupell travelled in Cape Colony between 1843 and 1845. There she met the botanist Nathaniel Wallich, who encouraged her to publish her drawings, as did Sir William Hooker, director of Kew Gardens, who made the selection of images to be included in Specimens. The text was supplied by the Irish botanist William Henry Harvey. This captioning is from a listing on a current Bonhams catalogue here https://www.bonhams.com/auction/29883/lot/20/roupell-arabella-e-specimens-of-the-flora-of-south-africa-by-a-lady-first-edition-w-nichol-shakespeare-press-1849/ . They are auctioning one of the lithographs that I didn’t pick up for this post but you can see it at the link. I found a scan of the book it was taken from over on the Biodiversity Heritage Library which is connected with the Smithsonian.

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