EditorialBonneville near Geneva on Road to Chamonix, Sir John Frederick William Herschel (British, 1792 - 1871), August 13, 1821, Graphite drawing made with the aid of a camera lucida, 19.4 ? 29 cm (7 5/8 ? 11 7/16 in.).
EditorialView of Madras looking south from the fort, with main landmarks numbered. Inscribed on original label: ‘View along the South Beach. 1. Government House. 2. Banqueting Room (detached) 3. The Mount. 4. Palaveram. 5. Conspicuous Mosque. 6. Marine Bunga...
EditorialValley of Fassa from Opposite Gries. Date/Period: 1834. Graphic art. Graphite drawing made with the aid of a camera lucida. Height: 200 mm (7.87 in); Width: 308 mm (12.12 in).
EditorialPortrait of a Man in Profile, 19th century, Graphite, sheet: 18 1/2 x 14 in. (47 x 35.6 cm), Drawings, Cornelius Varley (British, London 1781?1873 London), Before photography was invented, artists often used optical tools for assistance. Cornelius Varl...
EditorialBladdernut or wild coffee, Diospyros whyteana (Shining royena, Royena lucida). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Edwards' Botanical Register, edited by John Lindley, London, Ridgeway, 1846.
EditorialVirginia rose, Rosa luisante, Rosa lucida. Handcoloured lithograph by Lecouturier after a botanical illustration by Mlle. F. Legendre from Pierre Boitard's Rose-Lover's Complete Manual, Roret, Paris 1836.
EditorialVirginia rose, Rosa lucida, and Rosa truncata major. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1790-1830. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts m...
EditorialSmall flowered begonia, Begonia humilis (Begonia lucida). Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustr...
EditorialVirginia rose, Rosa virginiana (Rosa lucida). Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Bessin after an illustration by Pierre-Joseph Redoute from "Les Roses," Firmin Didot, Paris, 1817.
EditorialLucida Duplex (clynophylla) white and pink rose. Chromolithograph by Georges Severeyns from an illustration by Walter H. Fitch from William Paul's "The Rose Garden in two divisions," London, 1888. First issued in 1848 with 15 coloured plates, "The Rose...
EditorialVirginia rose, Rosa lucida, and Rosa truncata major. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1790-1830. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts m...
EditorialWhite rose, Rosa lucida. Handcoloured copperplate botanical drawn, engraved and coloured by Henry Charles Andrews for his own "Roses, a monograph of the genus Rosa," London, 1806. Andrews was an English botanist, artist and engraver who published the "...