EditorialHollyhock (Alcea rosea). Draughtsman: Anselmus Bo?tius de Boodt (signed by artist). Dating: 1596 - 1610. Place: Praag. Measurements: h 298 mm ? w 183 mm.
EditorialHollyhock (Alcea rosea). Draughtsman: Anselmus Bo?tius de Boodt (signed by artist). Dating: 1596 - 1610. Place: Praag. Measurements: h 298 mm ? w 183 mm.
EditorialKyoyaki Bowl with a Mon (Family Emblem) with Three Hollyhock Leaves Bowl with a mon (family emblem) with three hollyhock leaves, Stoneware bowl painted on the glaze in green. On the outer wall three times a weapon (mon, possibly Tokugawa) with three ho...
Editorialpattern, Porcelain plate, painted in underglaze blue. On the front three hollyhock leaves (aoi) in relief against a background of napkin work in underglaze blue. Three proen on the bottom. Old label on the bottom with 'Hirado-yaki / 18-t, [?]' And '266...
EditorialDish, Plooischotel with a passionate depiction on the shelf of a man and a woman, braiding a floral wreath together, The round dish rests on a stand ring and has a wide rim, made up of eight gnats with soft, bony-like driven frames in which mask-like m...
EditorialWall covering of lampas with turtle-pigeon pattern, Wall covering of lampas, with the turtle-pigeon pattern against a cerise-red background. Texture: fond in chain satin: embroidered weft in left twill weave, twisted and floss silk weft threads. Patter...
EditorialL'Alcee de la Chine. Chinese hollyhock, Malva alcea (Pentapetes sinica) and swallowtail butterfly. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tant...
EditorialLa Passerose a fleurs incarnates. Hollyhock, Alcea rosea. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tant dans les jardins de la chine, que dans c...
EditorialMallow variety, Malva minor and common hollyhock, Alcea rosea. 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...
EditorialHollyhock (Alcea rosea). Draughtsman: Anselmus Bo?tius de Boodt (signed by artist). Dating: 1596 - 1610. Place: Praag. Measurements: h 298 mm ? w 183 mm.
EditorialHollyhock. Book of Hours. France; circa 1500. [Whole folio] Text. Border shows a Hollyhock flower. Image taken from Book of Hours. Originally published/produced in France [Paris]; 1515 - 1520. . Source: Add. 35214, f.129v. Language: Latin.
EditorialL'Alcee de la Chine. Chinese hollyhock, Malva alcea (Pentapetes sinica) and swallowtail butterfly. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tant...
EditorialLa Passerose a fleurs incarnates. Hollyhock, Alcea rosea. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tant dans les jardins de la chine, que dans c...
EditorialMallow variety, Malva minor and common hollyhock, Alcea rosea. 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...
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.
EditorialAustralian hollyhock, Malva preissiana (Mallow-life lavatera, Lavatera plebeia). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a drawing by John Curtis for Samuel Curtis' continuation of William Curtis' Botanical Magazine, London, 1822.
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.
EditorialAoi or hollyhock, Alcea rosea. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901.
EditorialCommon hollyhock, Alcea rosea. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 1830. Turpin (1775~1840) was one of ...
EditorialHollyhock mallow, Malva alcea. 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 Nurnberg in 1780 with 500 p...
EditorialHollyhock or rose tremiere, Alcea rosea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of an illustration by Mlle. Prudhomme from "Hommage rendu a la Rose," Paris, circa 1815. A gift book with the history of the rose and a dozen botanical miniatures.