Artwork, photographs, biographical and misc. material. Paintings (watercolour, gouache), hand-coloured photographs and photographs produced in collaboration with scientists at the JI to illustrate colours and genetic variation.
Painting on white card of a white tulip with blue centre, labelled 'Ta. Sp. Liwan. Sph.end Persia', 'nat size', (9 x 12 cm). Signed 'HCO'. Annotated on reverse 'not used in book'.
As hand-coloured version (HCO/1/1/2/1/2)
Hand-coloured photograph of a single murillo tulip (red and yellow), signed HCO (bottom), back dated March 1927 and signed.
3 photographs: 2 identical of 7 single flowers, 1 hand-coloured (white/pink) labelled DD/Dd, 1 of 3 single flowers, hand-coloured (pale yellow) labeled VJDE/VJde/vjdE No cat. ref. (possibly from uncatalogued box 7.2)
Paintings and photographs
9 x photographs of Nicotiana, 1 hand-coloured and 1 x painting: 1. Hand-coloured photograph, showing 9 single Nicotiana flowers coloured white, purple, red and pale yellow, with name, female gender and number labels, 'Affinis, Langsdorfu, Bowles, F1 25/24, 29/24', dated 1924. 2. As above in black and white. 3. Black & white photograph, showing 6 single Nicotiana flowers, with name, female and male gender and number labels, 'Affinis, Bowles, F1 25/24, dated 1924. 4. Black & white photograph, showing 6 single Nicotiana flowers, with name, female and male gender and number labels, 'Langsdorfu, Affinis, F1 29/24, dated 1924. 5-6. Black & white photograph x 2, showing large crop of Nicotiana plants growing outside. Back inscribed 'To show 7/25 140 a typical plant grown which all flowers drop off as buds'. 7. Black & white photograph showing a Nicotiana plant, leaves and flowers, black blanket behind, back inscribed '7/25 140'. 8. Black & white photograph showing a Nicotiana plant leaves and flowers, member of staff on right, back inscribed '7/25 139, 7/26 140'. 9. Black & white photograph showing a Nicotiana plant leaves and flowers, black blanket behind, back inscribed '7/25 140'. 10. Painting: watercolour on white card (28.5 x 23.6 cm) depicting 10 single Nicotiana flowers in dark red, green, pale yellow and white, labelled male and female, 'Affinis, Langsdorfu, Bowles, F1 29/24, F1 25/24', 'natural size', dated Sep 1924.
- Six small paintings of wallflowers in shades of yellow, red and pink/white on white card (approx 6 x 4.5 cm) glued on cream card (16.1 x 24.1 cm), signed 'H C Osterstock'. One of the glued on paintings is missing (top, left). Back inscribed 'The Inheritance of Factors in Cheiranthus Cheiri in Genetics (by G E Gairdner)'. Original for Plate XVII in Genetics, Vol 32., Issue 3., July 1936. 2. Painting of three sprays of wallflower [?] leaves on white card (10.9 x 23.3 cm). From the collection of tulip paintings donated by Peter Matthews (HCO/1/1/1).
12 x black & white photographs of Russian Kale: 2 x showing rows of single leaves, one inscribed 'Russian Kale (leaves arranged in sequence), 1-15, 1920'. 1 x showing rows of single leaves, inscribed 'Fifteen plants (from one seed packet) November 1920'. 9 x showing a Russian Kale plant in soil, labeled 'R K 1920' nos 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 and 15.