EditorialTriomphe de Priape (Triumph of Priapus), from Nouveaux morceaux pour des paravants (New Designs for Screens), Fran?ois Boucher, French, 1703 1770, Claude Augustin Duflos, French, 17001786, Nicolas de Larmessin IV, French, 1684 - 1755, Etching and engra...
EditorialPomona - The Goddess of Orchards, Print made by Bernard Lens, 16591725, British, after Hans Rotenhamer, 15641625, German, undated, Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 13 13/16 ? 10 1/4 inches (35.1 ? 26 cm), Plate: 13 5/1...
EditorialPolyphylla, Print, Polyphylla is a genus of scarab beetle includes more than 80 species distributed in North and Central America, southern and central Europe, northern Africa, and southern Asia?from Asia Minor to Japan. They typically reside in forests...
EditorialSphingomorpha, Print, Sphingomorpha is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae first described by Achille Guen?e in 1852. Some species, such as Sphingomorpha chlorea, are notorious pests in orchards, and are known as fruitsucking or fruit-piercing moths.
EditorialPolyphylla, Print, Polyphylla is a genus of scarab beetle includes more than 80 species distributed in North and Central America, southern and central Europe, northern Africa, and southern Asia?from Asia Minor to Japan. They typically reside in forests...
EditorialMegalaima asiatica, Print, The blue-throated barbet (Psilopogon asiaticus) is an Asian barbet having bright green, blue & red plumage, seen across the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Barbets and toucans are a group of near passerine birds w...
EditorialColoured drawings depicting feathered men in the lands of Prester John, and the keepers of orchards with fruit that brings long life. Travels. England, E. (East Anglia); 2nd quarter of the 15th century. Source: Harley 3954, f.64. Language: English.
EditorialPomona, Roman goddess of fruit trees and orchards, shown wearing a garland and holding a harvest of fruit. Handcoloured copperplate engraving engraved by Jacques Louis Constant Lacerf after illustrations by Leonard Defraine from "La Mythologie en Estam...
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