EditorialNapkin with a flower pattern, Napkin of linen damask with flower pattern. Midfield: Loose flowers on branch. The symmetrical pattern shows no repetition. Among others: carnation, lily, poppy, iris, rose, lapwing flower, ranunculus, rose bud, campanulas...
EditorialUnknown (French), Lapwing, 18th century, pen and black ink over brush and watercolor, with glazing on the neck and breast, on off-white laid paper, Image and sheet: 10 3/8 ? 8 5/8 inches (26.4 ? 21.9 cm).
EditorialLapwing flower (Fritillaria meleagris, Kivit eijeren. / Fritillaria / fritilaire (title on object), Lapwing flower. Numbered top right: 91. With the Latin name. Part of the first album with drawings of flowers and plants Eighth of twelve albums with dr...
EditorialMilk jug made from hard-fired earthenware, Whieldon ware, agate ware ('lapwing'), Pear-shaped milk jug made from hard-fired earthenware. The milk jug has a C-shaped ear, a triangular sneb and a scalloped edge. The jug stands on three outwardly bent leg...
EditorialChettusia gregaria, Print, The sociable lapwing or sociable plover (Vanellus gregarius) is a critically endangered wader in the lapwing family of birds. The genus name is Medieval Latin for a lapwing and derives from vannus a winnowing fan. The specifi...
EditorialHoplopterus coronatus, Print, The crowned lapwing (Vanellus coronatus), or crowned plover, is a bird of the lapwing subfamily that occurs contiguously from the Red Sea coast of Somalia to southern and southwestern Africa. It is an adaptable and numerou...
EditorialHoplopterus melanopterus, Print, The black-winged lapwing or greater black-winged lapwing is an east African species that is found from the Ethiopian highlands in the north to central Kenya (race V. m. melanopterus), and again at middle to coastal elev...
EditorialHoplopterus spinosus, Print, The spur-winged lapwing or spur-winged plover (Vanellus spinosus) is a lapwing species, one of a group of largish waders in the family Charadriidae., 1700-1880.
EditorialHoplopterus malabaricus, Print, The yellow-wattled lapwing (Vanellus malabaricus) is a lapwing that is endemic to the Indian Subcontinent. It is found mainly on the dry plains of peninsular India and has a sharp call and is capable of fast flight. Alth...
EditorialHoplopterus tectus, Print, The black-headed lapwing or black-headed plover (Vanellus tectus) is a large lapwing, a group of largish waders in the family Charadriidae. It is a resident breeder across sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal to Ethiopia, although...
EditorialHoplopterus albiceps, Print, The white-crowned lapwing, white-headed lapwing, white-headed plover or white-crowned plover (Vanellus albiceps) is a medium-sized wader. It is resident throughout tropical Africa, usually near large rivers., 1820-1860.
EditorialHoplopterus spinosus, Print, The spur-winged lapwing or spur-winged plover (Vanellus spinosus) is a lapwing species, one of a group of largish waders in the family Charadriidae., 1700-1880.
EditorialHoplopterus spinosus, Print, The spur-winged lapwing or spur-winged plover (Vanellus spinosus) is a lapwing species, one of a group of largish waders in the family Charadriidae., 1700-1880.
EditorialEcce Homo, n.d., Unknown artist, Austrian, 18th century, Austria, Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash,and black chalk, on blue laid paper, 324 ? 220 mm, In the Spring the Wanton Lapwing gets himself another Crest, n.d., George Cruikshank, Engli...
EditorialAfrican wattled lapwing or Senegal wattled plover, Vanellus senegallus (Striped-throated lapwing, Vanellus strigilatus). handcoloured, steel engraving, William Lizars, William Swainson, illustration, Sir William Jardine, Naturalist's Library, Birds of ...
EditorialVanellus Goensis, Plover or Northern Lapwing. Birds from the Himalaya Mountains, engraving 1831 by Elizabeth Gould and John Gould. John Gould was working as a taxidermist,he was known as the 'bird-stuffer', by the Zoological Society. Gould's fascinatio...
EditorialNorthern lapwing, Vanellus vanellus, and Eurasian oystercatcher, Haematopus ostralegus. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croix's "Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology," Paris, France, 1816-1830. Illustration by J. ...