EditorialSacred lotus flower, Nelumbo nucifera, in the water. 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.
EditorialSacred lotus, Nelumbo nucifera (Egyptian bean lily, Cyamus nelumbo). 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.
EditorialRipe capsula with seeds of the sacred lotus, Nelumbo nucifera (Egyptian bean lily, Cyamus nelumbo). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hur...
EditorialIndian lotus, Nelumbo nucifera, Nelumbium speciosum, Nelumbo elegant. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lebrun after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincqs La Regne Vegetal: Flore...
EditorialEast Indian Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera). Dated: late 19th century. Dimensions: overall: 42.2 x 33.4 cm (16 5/8 x 13 1/8 in.). Medium: gouache on oriental paper.
EditorialEast Indian Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera). Dated: late 19th century. Dimensions: overall: 42.2 x 33.4 cm (16 5/8 x 13 1/8 in.). Medium: gouache on oriental paper.
EditorialCoconut palm, Cocos nucifera. 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 pl...
EditorialIndian lotus, Nelumbo nucifera, Nelumbium speciosum, Nelumbo elegant. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lebrun after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincqs La Regne Vegetal: Flore...
EditorialSacred bean or Indian lotus, Nelumbo nucifera (Nelumbium speciosum). Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896.
EditorialRhynchophorus, Print, Rhynchophorus, or common name palm weevil, is a genus of beetles in the weevil family, Curculionidae. Palm weevils are major pests of various trees in the family Arecaceae throughout the tropics including: coconut (Cocos nucifera)...
EditorialRhynchophorus, Print, Rhynchophorus, or common name palm weevil, is a genus of beetles in the weevil family, Curculionidae. Palm weevils are major pests of various trees in the family Arecaceae throughout the tropics including: coconut (Cocos nucifera)...
EditorialLe Nenuphar rouge de la Chine. Indian lotus, Nelumbo nucifera, and frog. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tant dans les jardins de la ch...
EditorialLe Nenuphar blanc de la Chine a fleurs semi-doubles. Sacred lotus water lily, Nelumbo nucifera. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tant da...
EditorialLa Nenuphar rouge de la Chine. Sacred lotus, Nelumbo nucifera, and Mandarin duck, Aix galericulata. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tan...
EditorialSacred Egyptian bean, Nelumbo nucifera. Painted by Peter Henderson, engraved by Quilley. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving from Dr. Robert Thornton's "Temple of Flora," Lottery edition, London, 1812. The illustrations were a mix of aquatint, m...
EditorialEast Indian Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera). Dated: late 19th century. Dimensions: overall: 42.2 x 33.4 cm (16 5/8 x 13 1/8 in.). Medium: gouache on oriental paper.
EditorialEast Indian Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera). Dated: late 19th century. Dimensions: overall: 42.2 x 33.4 cm (16 5/8 x 13 1/8 in.). Medium: gouache on oriental paper.
EditorialLe Nenuphar rouge de la Chine. Indian lotus, Nelumbo nucifera, and frog. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tant dans les jardins de la ch...
EditorialLe Nenuphar blanc de la Chine a fleurs semi-doubles. Sacred lotus water lily, Nelumbo nucifera. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tant da...
EditorialLa Nenuphar rouge de la Chine. Sacred lotus, Nelumbo nucifera, and Mandarin duck, Aix galericulata. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tan...
EditorialSacred lotus flower, Nelumbo nucifera, in the water. 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.
EditorialSacred lotus, Nelumbo nucifera (Egyptian bean lily, Cyamus nelumbo). 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.
EditorialRipe capsula with seeds of the sacred lotus, Nelumbo nucifera (Egyptian bean lily, Cyamus nelumbo). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hur...
EditorialCoconut tree, Cocos nucifera. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialCoconut tree, Cocos nucifera. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialManicole or acai palm, Euterpe oleracea A-E, and cocoa-nut or coconut tree, Cocos nucifera, F,G, husk H, and coconut fruit I. Copperplate engraving after an original illustration by Captain John Gabriel Stedman from his Narrative of a Five Years' Exped...
EditorialCoconut palm tree, Cocos nucifera 1, coconut fruit a, and Caribbean royal palm, Roystonea oleracea 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1795.
EditorialSacred Egyptian bean, Nelumbo nucifera. Painted by Peter Henderson, engraved by Quilley. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving from Dr. Robert Thornton's "Temple of Flora," Lottery edition, London, 1812. The illustrations were a mix of aquatint, m...
EditorialSacred lotus, Nelumbo nucifera. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was c...
EditorialCoconut palm, Cocos nucifera. 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 pl...