EditorialQuercus ilex - Oak oak, Illustration of the branch of a holm oak from the 19th century, signed: Ruprich Robert inv. Et del, Sauvageot sc., Pl. 45, after p. 145, Ruprich-Robert, V. (inv. et del.); Sauvageot, Cl. (sculp.), 1876, V. Ruprich-Robert, Cl. Sa...
EditorialHolly and Ilex latifolia, Stecheychen, fol. 65r, 1590, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Joachim Camerarius: Kreuterbuch desz hochgelehrten unnd weitber?hmten Herrn D. Petri Andreae Matthioli. Franckfort am Mayn: [Feyrabendt], 1590.
EditorialChristmas wreath of box, laurel and holly, Buxus sempervirens, Prunus laurocerasus, and Ilex aquifolium. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn from nature by Mrs. Rebecca Hey from her own "Spirit of the Woods," London, Longman, Rees, 1837. Rebecca ...
EditorialThousand golden herb (Centaurium erythraea) and holly (Ilex aquifolium), Thousand golden herb and holly. FIGs. 23 and 24 numbered by hand on a leaf 13. In: Anselmi Boetii de Boot I.C. Brugensis, anonymous, 1604 - 1632 and/or 1640, paper, ink, watercolo...
EditorialL'Agrifoglio (Ilex aquifolium.) Holly. Coloured drawings of plants, copied from nature in the Roman States, by Gerardo Cibo. Vol. I. Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Physician, of Siena: Extracts from his edition of Dioscorides' "de re Medica":. Italy, c. 1564-...
EditorialCommon holly, Ilex aquifolium. 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.
EditorialGolden variegated holly, Ilex aquifolium ciliata aureo-marginata. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaire's Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, Ghent, Belgium, 1867-1868.
EditorialHiiragi or holly, Ilex crenata. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901.
EditorialHolly, Ilex aqualifolium, with prickly leaves and red berries. 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, 183...
EditorialCommon holly, Ilex aquifolium. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Guimpel from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berlin Univer...
EditorialHolly tree, Ilex aquifolium, with berries. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science," Florence, Italy, 1837. Engraved by Corsi, drawn by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by Batelli e Figli. Turp...
EditorialCommon nightingale, Luscinia megarhynchos, and goldcrest, Regulus regulus, on ivy leaves, Hedera helix. Cinereous tit, Parus cinereus, and great tit, Parus major, on a holly bush, Ilex aquifolium. Handcoloured engraving on steel by Fournier after a dra...
EditorialChristmas wreath of box, laurel and holly, Buxus sempervirens, Prunus laurocerasus, and Ilex aquifolium. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn from nature by Mrs. Rebecca Hey from her own "Spirit of the Woods," London, Longman, Rees, 1837. Rebecca ...
EditorialHolly with flowers and berries, Ilex aquifolium. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn from nature by Mrs. Rebecca Hey from her own "Spirit of the Woods," London, Longman, Rees, 1837. Rebecca Hey was a Victorian writer, poet and artist who wrote "M...
EditorialHolly, Ilex aquifolium. 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 plates, ...
EditorialDahoon holly or cassena, Ilex cassine. 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 wi...