EditorialGiant waterlily, Victoria amazonica (Victoria water-lily, Victoria regia), flower and lilypad. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Walter Fitch from Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Curtis's Botanical Magazine," London, 1847.
EditorialHermaphrodite in cape with waterlily leaf (the nymph Salmacis described by Ovid), and naked young man with discus and olive branch (Pelops, founder of the Olympic Games). Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Anti...
EditorialBacchic rite. Priestess with waterlily leaf receiving a string of pearls, and (below) Bacchus seated between two ministers. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1789.
EditorialHermaphrodite in cape with waterlily leaf (the nymph Salmacis described by Ovid), and naked young man with discus and olive branch (Pelops, founder of the Olympic Games). Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Anti...
EditorialBacchic rite. Priestess with waterlily leaf receiving a string of pearls, and (below) Bacchus seated between two ministers. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1789.
EditorialGiant waterlily, Victoria amazonica (Victoria water-lily, Victoria regia), flower and lilypad. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Walter Fitch from Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Curtis's Botanical Magazine," London, 1847.
EditorialHermaphrodite in cape with waterlily leaf (the nymph Salmacis described by Ovid), and naked young man with discus and olive branch (Pelops, founder of the Olympic Games). Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Anti...
EditorialBacchic rite. Priestess with waterlily leaf receiving a string of pearls, and (below) Bacchus seated between two ministers. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1789.