EditorialCentaurium greater East- up, glass leaf yellow flower, Centaurea glastifolia L, signed: P.S. (sculp.), Fig. 39, after p. 38, p. 124, Sluyter, P. (sc.), 1706, Caspari Commelin ... Horti Medici ... plantae rariores et exoticae. Lugduni Batavorum: apud Fe...
EditorialCornflower (Centaurea cyanus) diversche Couleuren van Koorn Bloemen. / Cijanus variis Coloribus. / Bluets the different Couleurs. Casse lunette (title on object), Cornflowers in white, purple and blue. With a snail. Numbered top right: 291. Top left th...
EditorialGreater blue bottle or perennial cornflower, Centaurea montana. Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Curtis's "Botanical Magazine," Lambeth, London, 1789.
EditorialWoad-leaved centaurea, Centaurea glastifolia. Handcolured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration from William Curtis' The Botanical Magazine, Lambeth Marsh, London, 1787.
EditorialMotherwort, Leonurus cardiaca, and cornflower, Centaurea cyanus. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations...
EditorialRed campion, Silene dioica, and white behmen, Centaurea behen. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations o...
EditorialCentaurea? Daisy family. Coloured drawings of plants, copied from nature in the Roman States, by Gerardo Cibo. Vol. I. Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Physician, of Siena: Extracts from his edition of Dioscorides' "de re Medica":. Italy, c. 1564-1584. Source: ...
EditorialBachelor's Button (Centaurea Cyanus), from the Flowers series for Old Judge Cigarettes, 1890, Commercial color lithograph, sheet: 2 3/4 x 1 1/2 in. (7 x 3.8 cm), The 'Flowers' series of trading cards (N164) was issued by Goodwin & Company in 1890 to pr...
EditorialWoad-leaved centaurea, Centaurea glastifolia. Handcolured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration from William Curtis' The Botanical Magazine, Lambeth Marsh, London, 1787.
EditorialMotherwort, Leonurus cardiaca, and cornflower, Centaurea cyanus. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations...
EditorialRed campion, Silene dioica, and white behmen, Centaurea behen. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations o...
EditorialGiant knapweed or large-headed yellow centaury, Centaurea macrocephala. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom Jr. after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis' Botanical Magazine, T. Curtis, London, 1809.
EditorialBluebottle or cornflower, Cyanus segetum (Centaurea cyanus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816.
EditorialSt. Benedict's thistle, Centaurea benedicta (Cnicus benedictus). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialPurple starthistle, Centaurea calcitrapa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smith's English Botany, London, 1793.
EditorialWall butterfly, Lasiommata megera, larva and pupa on cornflower, Centaurea cyanus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and etched by Jacob l'Admiral in Naauwkeurige Waarneemingen omtrent de veranderingen van veele Insekten (Accurate Descriptions o...
EditorialCyanus depressus. (Prostrate centaury, Centaurea depressa). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration from William Jackson Hooker's Botanical Magazine, London, 1838.
EditorialGreater knapweed, Centaurea scabiosa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smith's English Botany, London, 1792.
EditorialGreater blue bottle or perennial cornflower, Centaurea montana. Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Curtis's "Botanical Magazine," Lambeth, London, 1789.
EditorialYaguruma or Japanese centaury, Centaurea species. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901.
EditorialCornflower, Centaurea cyanus, and poppy, Papaver rhoeas, flower fairies. Beetle musicians in the foreground. Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from "Les Fleurs Animees," Paris, Gabriel ...
EditorialKnapwort harshweed, Centaurea jacea, and common saw-wort, Serratula tinctoria. Handcoloured botanical copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from "Culpeper's English Family Physician; or Medical Herbal Enlarged, with Several Hundred Additional Plan...
EditorialPurple starthistle, Centaurea calcitrapa, native to Europe. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botany i...
EditorialGreat centaury, Centaurea centaurium, native to Europe. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botany in Nu...