EditorialRoyal candle (Verbascum thapsus), Wolle Kruijd. / Verbascum, candela regia. / Bouillon blanc (title on object), King's candle, or cloud. Numbered top right: 331. Also the name in six languages. Part of the fourth album with drawings of flowers and mush...
EditorialThunder leaf (Sempervivum tectorum) and royal candle (Verbascum thapsus), Thunder leaf and royal candle. FIGs. 33 and 34 on a sheet hand numbered 18. In: Anselmi Boetii de Boot I.C. Brugensis, anonymous, 1604 - 1632 and/or 1640, paper, ink, watercolor ...
EditorialCommon Blue Bird - Great Mullein, Verbascum Thapsus, Bluebird (Sialia Wilsonii), Small-flowered Mullein, Signed: J.J. Audubon, J.T. Bowen, lithograph, Pl. 134 (vol. 2), Audubon, John James (drawn); Bowen, J. T. (lith.), 1856, John James Audubon: The bi...
EditorialRoman statuette of Venus holding a mirror. Terracotta. 2nd century AD. From Thapsus, Tunisia. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom.
EditorialMullein, Verbascum thapsus. 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 the...
EditorialWhite mullein, Verbascum thapsus, and hoary mullein, Verbascum lychnitis. Handcoloured botanical copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from "Culpeper's English Family Physician; or Medical Herbal Enlarged, with Several Hundred Additional Plants, P...
EditorialGreat mullein, Verbascum thapsus. 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 50...
EditorialRoman statuette of Venus holding a mirror. Terracotta. 2nd century AD. From Thapsus, Tunisia. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom.