EditorialNodding head figure, Standing doll, representing man with staff in left hand. He wears a long green robe, richly decorated with floral patterns and Chinese animal patterns. Bald head with long whiskers, goatee and a long mustache. Dark blue cap on the ...
EditorialMachine-made tie with poppies at the ends, Natural-colored machine-tie tie: machine tulle with machine embroidery. Elongated rectangular model. The tie has a pattern at the ends, otherwise the tulle is unprocessed. At each end there are three deep scal...
EditorialTwelve Views of Tiger Hill, Suzhou: The Nodding Stone Terrace, Tiger Hill, and the Thousand-Man Seat, after 1490. Shen Zhou (Chinese, 1427-1509). Album leaf, ink on paper or ink and slight color on paper; image: 31.2 x 42.3 cm (12 5/16 x 16 5/8 in.); o...
EditorialNodding epidendrum orchid, Epidendrum nutans. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Nevitt after a botanical illustration by Miss Jane Taylor from Benjamin Maund and the Rev. John Stevens Henslow's The Botanist, London, 1836.
EditorialOrange nodding-head or mountain dahlia, Liparia splendens, vulnerable. (Ruscus-leaved liparia, Liparia sphaerica). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Nevitt after a botanical illustration by Mills from Benjamin Maund and the Rev. John Stevens Hen...
EditorialNodding renealmia, Renealmia nutans. Painted by Peter Henderson, engraved by Roffe. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving from Dr. Robert Thornton's "Temple of Flora," Lottery edition, London, 1812. The illustrations were a mix of aquatint, mezzot...
EditorialLe Triton. La Navigation sous-marine. [With illustrations.]. Paris, 1906. Experimental underwater breathing apparatus, known as the Triton, designed by Frédéric de Drieberg. The diver wears a metal air cylinder on the back and a metal crown on his he...
EditorialNodding epidendrum orchid, Epidendrum nutans. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Nevitt after a botanical illustration by Miss Jane Taylor from Benjamin Maund and the Rev. John Stevens Henslow's The Botanist, London, 1836.
EditorialOrange nodding-head or mountain dahlia, Liparia splendens, vulnerable. (Ruscus-leaved liparia, Liparia sphaerica). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Nevitt after a botanical illustration by Mills from Benjamin Maund and the Rev. John Stevens Hen...
EditorialOrnithogalum nutans, Ornithogale pench?; Drooping Star of Bethlehem, Nodding Star-of-Bethlehem, Redout?, Pierre Joseph, 1759-1840, les liliacees, 1802 - 1816.
EditorialNodding onion, lady's leek or bowed-umbelled garlic, Allium cernuum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom Jr. after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis' Botanical Magazine, T. Curtis, London, 1810.
EditorialNodding Star of Bethlehem, Ornithogalum nutans. Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendal's German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871.
EditorialOrange nodding-head or mountain dahlia, Liparia splendens (Ruscus-leaved liparia, Liparia sphaerica). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom Jr. after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis' Botanical Magazine, T. Curtis, Lond...
EditorialNodding Star of Bethlehem, Ornithogalum nutans (Ornithogalum chloranthum). Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendal's German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871.
EditorialNodding clerodendrum, Clerodendrum nutans (Drooping flowered clerodendron, Clerodendron nutans). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Swan after an illustration by William Jackson Hooker from Samuel Curtis's "Botanical Magazine," London, 1831.
EditorialNodding sophonitis orchid, Cattleya cernua (Drooping flowered sophronitis, Sophronitis cernua). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by W.B. Booth from William Jackson Hooker's Botanical Magazine, London, 1839.
EditorialNodding epidendrum orchid, Epidendrum nutans (Drooping-flowered epidendrum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his own "Exotic Flora," Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823. Hooker (1785-18...
EditorialNodding catasetum orchid, Catasetum cernuum (Green-flowered cowlwort, Monachantus viridis). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by Miss Drake from Sydenham Edwards' "The Botanical Register," London, Ridgway, 1835. Sarah...
EditorialNodding catasetum orchid, Catasetum cernuum (Drooping flywort orchid, Myanthus cernuus). Native to Brazil. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by Miss M.A. Huntley from Sydenham Edwards' "The Botanical Register," London...
EditorialNodding renealmia, Renealmia nutans. Painted by Peter Henderson, engraved by Roffe. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving from Dr. Robert Thornton's "Temple of Flora," Lottery edition, London, 1812. The illustrations were a mix of aquatint, mezzot...