EditorialGarden sorrel, Rumex acetosa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Medical Botany," John Bohn, London, 1832. The tireless Sowerby (1757-1822) drew ove...
EditorialCommon sorrel, Rumex acetosa, mountain sorrel, Oxyria digyna, and sheeps sorrel, Rumex acetosella. Handcoloured botanical copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from "Culpeper's English Family Physician; or Medical Herbal Enlarged, with Several Hun...
EditorialSorrel, Rumex acetosa, and sheep's sorrel, Rumex acetosella. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations onl...
EditorialCommon sorrel, Rumex acetosa, mountain sorrel, Oxyria digyna, and sheeps sorrel, Rumex acetosella. Handcoloured botanical copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from "Culpeper's English Family Physician; or Medical Herbal Enlarged, with Several Hun...
EditorialAcetosa et Acetosa minor, Sawerampffer and Klein Sawerampffer, Fol. 133r, 1590, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Joachim Camerarius: Kreuterbuch desz hochgelehrten unnd weitber?hmten Herrn D. Petri Andreae Matthioli. Franckfort am Mayn: [Feyrabendt], 1590.
EditorialPhytographia Curiosa: Acetosa Vulgaris sive Rumex Canpferinus. Abraham Munting (Dutch, 1626-1683). Etching, hand colored with watercolor; overall: 31.5 cm (12 3/8 in.).
EditorialSorrel, Rumex acetosa, and sheep's sorrel, Rumex acetosella. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations onl...
EditorialSorrel, Rumex acetosa, and sheep's sorrel, Rumex acetosella. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations onl...
EditorialGarden sorrel, Rumex acetosa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Icones plantarum medicinalium," Germany, 1796. Zorn (1739-99) was a German pharmacist and botanist who travelled all over Europe searching for medicinal plants.
EditorialCommon sorrel, Rumex acetosa, mountain sorrel, Oxyria digyna, and sheeps sorrel, Rumex acetosella. Handcoloured botanical copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from "Culpeper's English Family Physician; or Medical Herbal Enlarged, with Several Hun...
EditorialGarden sorrel, Rumex acetosa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Medical Botany," John Bohn, London, 1832. The tireless Sowerby (1757-1822) drew ove...