Sir John Hill, MD, writer, botanist and naturalist, Knight of the Polar Star, First Superintendant of the Royal Gardens at Kew, 1714-1775. A view of the White House in the Royal Palace in Kew Gardens. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giovanni Vendramini after a portrait by Francis Cates from Dr. Robert John Thorntons New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus, the Temple of Flora, London, 1799.
Sir John Hill, MD, writer, botanist and naturalist, Knight of the Polar Star, First Superintendant of the Royal Gardens at Kew, 1714-1775. A view of the White House in the Royal Palace in Kew Gardens. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giovanni Vendramini after a portrait by Francis Cates from Dr. Robert John Thorntons New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus, the Temple of Flora, London, 1799.