EditorialBluebottle or cornflower, Cyanus segetum (Centaurea cyanus). 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.
EditorialWhite-chinned sapphire, Hylocharis cyanus (Ornismya cyanea), juvenile. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Rene Primevere Lesson's Natural History of the Colibri Genus of Hummingbirds, Histoire Natur...
EditorialWall butterfly, Lasiommata megera, larva and pupa on cornflower, Centaurea cyanus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and etched by Jacob l'Admiral in Naauwkeurige Waarneemingen omtrent de veranderingen van veele Insekten (Accurate Descriptions o...
EditorialCornflower (Centaurea cyanus) diversche Couleuren van Koorn Bloemen. / Cijanus variis Coloribus. / Bluets the different Couleurs. Casse lunette (title on object), Cornflowers in white, purple and blue. With a snail. Numbered top right: 291. Top left th...
EditorialCornflower, Centaurea cyanus, and poppy, Papaver rhoeas, flower fairies. Beetle musicians in the foreground. Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from "Les Fleurs Animees," Paris, Gabriel ...
EditorialMotherwort, Leonurus cardiaca, and cornflower, Centaurea cyanus. 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...
EditorialSt. John's wort, Hypericum perforatum, Polyadelphia, 1,2, and blue bottle or cornflower, Centaurea cyanus, Syngenesia, 3-5. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtis' Lectures on ...
EditorialGreater Cyanus, Gross Kronblum, Fol. 152v, 1590, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Joachim Camerarius: Kreuterbuch desz hochgelehrten unnd weitber?hmten Herrn D. Petri Andreae Matthioli. Franckfort am Mayn: [Feyrabendt], 1590.
EditorialCyanus minor, Klein Kornblum, Fol. 153r, 1590, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Joachim Camerarius: Kreuterbuch desz hochgelehrten unnd weitber?hmten Herrn D. Petri Andreae Matthioli. Franckfort am Mayn: [Feyrabendt], 1590.
EditorialCornflower (Centaurea cyanus) diversche Couleuren van Koorn Bloemen. / Cijanus variis Coloribus. / Bluets the different Couleurs. Casse lunette (title on object), Cornflowers in white, purple and blue. With a snail. Numbered top right: 291. Top left th...
EditorialTurdus cyanus, Print, True thrush, True thrushes are medium-sized mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the genus Turdus of the wider thrush family, Turdidae. The genus name Turdus is Latin for "thrush". The term "thrush" is used for many other b...
EditorialTurdus cyanus, Print, True thrush, True thrushes are medium-sized mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the genus Turdus of the wider thrush family, Turdidae. The genus name Turdus is Latin for "thrush". The term "thrush" is used for many other b...
EditorialTurdus cyanus, Print, True thrush, True thrushes are medium-sized mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the genus Turdus of the wider thrush family, Turdidae. The genus name Turdus is Latin for "thrush". The term "thrush" is used for many other b...
EditorialTurdus cyanus, Print, True thrush, True thrushes are medium-sized mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the genus Turdus of the wider thrush family, Turdidae. The genus name Turdus is Latin for "thrush". The term "thrush" is used for many other b...
EditorialMotherwort, Leonurus cardiaca, and cornflower, Centaurea cyanus. 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...
EditorialBachelor's Button (Centaurea Cyanus), from the Flowers series for Old Judge Cigarettes, 1890, Commercial color lithograph, sheet: 2 3/4 x 1 1/2 in. (7 x 3.8 cm), The 'Flowers' series of trading cards (N164) was issued by Goodwin & Company in 1890 to pr...
EditorialMotherwort, Leonurus cardiaca, and cornflower, Centaurea cyanus. 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...
EditorialBluebottle or cornflower, Cyanus segetum (Centaurea cyanus). 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.
EditorialWall butterfly, Lasiommata megera, larva and pupa on cornflower, Centaurea cyanus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and etched by Jacob l'Admiral in Naauwkeurige Waarneemingen omtrent de veranderingen van veele Insekten (Accurate Descriptions o...
EditorialWhite-chinned sapphire, Hylocharis cyanus (Ornismya cyanea), juvenile. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Rene Primevere Lesson's Natural History of the Colibri Genus of Hummingbirds, Histoire Natur...
EditorialCyanus depressus. (Prostrate centaury, Centaurea depressa). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration from William Jackson Hooker's Botanical Magazine, London, 1838.
EditorialAzure-winged magpie, Cyanopica cyanus (Cyanean crow, Corvus cyaneus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1806.
EditorialCornflower, Centaurea cyanus, and poppy, Papaver rhoeas, flower fairies. Beetle musicians in the foreground. Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from "Les Fleurs Animees," Paris, Gabriel ...
EditorialCornflower, Centaurus cyanus 126, field scabious, Scabiosa arvensis 127 and fumitory, Fumaria officinalis 128. Handcolored copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration from G. T. Wilhelm's "Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte" (Encyclopedia of ...