EditorialPlants of Sri Lanka: tamarind 1, sago palm 2, cassia 3 and teak 4. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1844.
EditorialChinese cassia or Chinese cinnamon, Cinnamomum cassia, and greater galangal, Alpinia galanga. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1805. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was ...
EditorialSweet-scented cassia, Senna odorata. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and engraved by William Clark from Richard Morris's "Flora Conspicua" London, Longman, Rees, 1826. William Clark was former draughtsman to the London Horticultural Society a...
EditorialGolden shower tree, Cassia fistula. 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) dr...
EditorialSenna, Senna alexandrina (Cassia senna). 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 t...
EditorialGolden shower tree, Cassia fistula. 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 w...
EditorialGolden rain tree or canafistula, Cassia fistula, Casse purgative. Handcoloured steel engraving by Pierre after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincqs La Regne Vegetal: Flore Med...
EditorialAlexandrian senna, Senna alexandrina, Cassia acutifolia, Sene a feuilles aigues. Handcoloured steel engraving by Debray after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincqs La Regne Veg...
EditorialNecklace (part of a set), Italian, probably Naples, mid-19th century, Italian, probably Naples, Gold, shell (Cassia rufa), Overall: 24 1/4 in. (61.6 cm); largest cameo visible: 38.2 x 46 mm.
EditorialDesert Senna, Cassia armata, May 25, 1912, Watercolor and brown ink over graphite, with page design indicated in graphite, sheet: 13 11/16 x 9 15/16 in. (34.8 x 25.2 cm), Drawings, Margaret Neilson Armstrong (American, New York 1867?1944 New York).
EditorialCassia tree, Cinnamomum cassia. 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 ...
EditorialGolden shower tree, Cassia fistula. 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 ...