EditorialTacuinum Sanitatis. Medieval Health Handbook, dated before 1400, based on observations of medical order detailing the most important aspects of food, beverages and clothing. Picking watercress. Miniature. Fol. 30v.
EditorialWatercress, Nasturtium officinale (Sisymbrium nasturtium). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smith's English Botany, 1801.
EditorialThe Watercress Girl, Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi RA, 17281815, Italian, active in Britain (176499), after Francis Wheatley, 17471801, British, Published by Anthony Molteno, 17841845, British, 1796, Mezzotint and etching on medium, slightly textu...
EditorialThe Watercress Girl, John Raphael Smith, 17521812, British, after Johan Joseph Zoffany RA, 17331810, German, active in Britain (from 1760), Published by John Raphael Smith, 17521812, British, 1780, Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid pap...
EditorialWatercress, Nasturtium officinale, and pennyroyal, Mentha pulegium. 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 illustrati...
EditorialWatercress, Nasturtium officinale, and radish cress, Rorippa amphibia. Handcoloured botanical copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from "Culpeper's English Family Physician; or Medical Herbal Enlarged, with Several Hundred Additional Plants, Prin...