Indian Botanical Illustrations

Photographic Collections

Research Glasshouses

Approximately one third of all plant species grown by RBGE can be found in the Research Glasshouses. These behind-the-scenes glasshouses underpin many of RBGE’s core activities by providing facilities to grow, conserve, propagate, quarantine and…

Joan Mitchell

First UK museum exhibition 27 July - 3 October 2010. Tues - Sun, 10am - 5.30pm "I paint from landscapes of the memory I carry with me and feelings from the memory of them which naturally become transformed... I prefer to leave nature to itself.…

John McCracken

John McCracken 6 August - 11 October 2009. Tues - Sun, 10am - 5.30pm John McCrackenInstallation view: Inverleith House, 2009 From left to right: Luster, 2006; Stardust, 2006; Ring, 2006.Private collection, courtesy David Zwirner, New…

John Hutton Balfour (1808-1884): Nature Study 

John Hutton Balfour (1808-1884): Nature Study  3 May - 6 July 2008. Tues - Sun, 10am - 5.30pm Artist unknown: "Linum usitatissimum L., Common flax", Pre-1859. watercolour and ink on board, 60.9 x 48.2cm. Nature Study was one of a unique series…

Juergen Teller - Awailable

Juergen Teller - Awailable 27 January to 15 April, 2007  Juergen Teller: "Cherub, London, 2006", C-type print.  Juergen Teller has been credited not only with changing the face of fashion photography in Britain in the 1990s but producing some…

Smith/Stewart: Enter Love and Enter Death

Smith/Stewart: Enter Love and Enter Death 3 November 2007 - 3 February 2008. Tues - Sun, 10am - 5.30pm Smith/Stewart: installation view; "Enter Love and Enter Death, figures 1-6, 2007" (detail), Inverleith House, 2008. Enter Love and Enter…

Rungiah and Govindoo - South Indian Botanical Drawings 1826-1853

Rungiah and Govindoo - South Indian Botanical Drawings 1826-1853 9 April - 9 July 2006 Installation view: "Rungiah and Govindoo - South Indian Botanical Drawings 1826 - 1853", Inverleith House, 2006.   ‘The insufficiency of language alone to…