EditorialMallow, Alcea vulgaris minor, and marshmallow, Althaea officinalis. 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 illustrati...
EditorialHercules and Achelous. Metamorphoses. Antoine Vérard: Paris, 1494. (Whole page) Hercules and Achelous. Hercules and the river-god Achelous fight to win the hand of Deianira in marriage. Achelous takes the form of a bull, and Hercules defeats him by br...
EditorialAlthaea, killing herself because she caused the death of her own son, and below, Hercules in the garb of a 15th-century aristocrat. The Fall of Princes , abridged. England, S. E. (probably Suffolk, possibly Bury St Edmunds); c. 1450 - c. 1460. Source: ...
EditorialMallow, Alcea vulgaris minor, and marshmallow, Althaea officinalis. 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 illustrati...
EditorialMarsh mallow, Althaea officinalis. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London, 1880.
EditorialHollyhock, Alcea rosea (Althaea rosea). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialMarsh mallow, Althaea officinalis. 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.
EditorialMarshmallow, Althaea officinalis. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialCommon hollyhock, Alcea rosea (Althaea rosea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Swan after an illustration by William Jackson Hooker from Samuel Curtis' "Botanical Magazine," London, 1832.
EditorialMarsh mallow, Althaea officinalis. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 1830. Turpin (1775~1840) was on...
EditorialSyrian hibiscus, Hibiscus syriacus. (Rose of Sharon, Althaea frutex) National flower of Korea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from William Curtis's "Botanical Magazine," 1789. Botanical illustration unsigned, but possibly by James Sowerby.
EditorialMarshmallow flower fairy, Althaea officinalis, in bonnet of flowers, dress of leaves and roots, giving a throat medicine to a frog in a bed. Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from "Les ...
EditorialMarshmallow, Althaea officinalis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Medical Botany," John Bohn, London, 1832. The tireless Sowerby (1757-1822) drew...