EditorialBanknote motif: ten different ornamental lathe work elements including a disk embellished with berries and flowers, a wreathed sword, a set of scales, a berried vine, an anchor and chain, a bracket of vine leaves and four designs for borders.
EditorialBlack-berried honeysuckle, Lonicera nigra (Xylosteon campaniflorum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke from Conrad Loddiges' Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1828.
EditorialBanknote motif: ten different ornamental lathe work elements including a disk embellished with berries and flowers, a wreathed sword, a set of scales, a berried vine, an anchor and chain, a bracket of vine leaves and four designs for borders.
EditorialBlack-berried honeysuckle, Lonicera nigra (Xylosteon campaniflorum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke from Conrad Loddiges' Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1828.
EditorialRed-berried bryony, Bryonia cretica subsp. dioica. 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.
EditorialBlue berried adamia, Adamia cyanea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Swan after an illustration by William Jackson Hooker from Samuel Curtis's "Botanical Magazine," London, 1831.