John Reeves Collection, Camellia japonica, unknown artist, 1812-31. Watercolour. © The Trustees of t
John Reeves Collection, Camellia japonica, unknown artist, 1812-31. Watercolour. © The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, LondonReeves, the East India Company’s China based tea inspector and amateur naturalist commissioned Chinese artists to paint the natural history around them. -- source link
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