EditorialPurple betony, Stachys officinalis, native to Europe. 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 Nurn...
EditorialBetony, Stachys officinalis, male and female. 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 only, with caption...
EditorialBetony, Stachys officinalis, male and female. 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 only, with caption...
Editorial'Bettonica.' Stachys officinalis is commonly known as betony, purple betony, wood betony, bishopwort, or bishop's wort. Coloured drawings of plants, copied from nature in the Roman States, by Gerardo Cibo. Vol. I. Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Physician, of ...
EditorialIllustrations of English herbs. Avence [wood avens or herb bennet]; averoigne [southern-wood]; affadille [daffodil]; accedula [sour-dock or crowfoot]; anece [dill]; betoigne [betony]; bugle [bugle]; centrum galli [cock's spur or clary]; centory [centau...
EditorialBetony. Book of Hours. France; circa 1500. [Whole folio] Text. Borders with trompe l'oeil decoration including Betony and insects. Image taken from Book of Hours. Originally published/produced in France [Paris]; 1515 - 1520. . Source: Add. 35214, f.4...
EditorialBetony, Stachys officinalis, male and female. 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 only, with caption...
EditorialWater betony moth, Shargacucullia scrophulariae, and European peacock, Inachis io. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Moses Harris from "The Aurelian; a Natural History of English Moths and Butterflies," new edition edited by J. O. Westwo...
EditorialBetony or bishopwort, Stachys officinalis. 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)...
EditorialPurple betony, Stachys officinalis, native to Europe. 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 Nurn...
EditorialWood betony, Stachys officinalis. 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...