EditorialA Lucida 3D scanner, which is used to fully scan walls of Pharaonic temples so they can be replicated, in Luxor, Egypt, Nov. 4, 2022. (Jonathan Rashad/The New York Times)
EditorialVirginia rose, Rosa lucida, and Rosa truncata major. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1790-1830. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts m...
EditorialVirginia rose, Rosa lucida, and Rosa truncata major. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1790-1830. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts m...
EditorialVirginia rose, Rosa virginiana (Rosa lucida). Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Bessin after an illustration by Pierre-Joseph Redoute from "Les Roses," Firmin Didot, Paris, 1817.
EditorialLucida Duplex (clynophylla) white and pink rose. Chromolithograph by Georges Severeyns from an illustration by Walter H. Fitch from William Paul's "The Rose Garden in two divisions," London, 1888. First issued in 1848 with 15 coloured plates, "The Rose...
EditorialPortrait of a Man in Profile, 19th century, Graphite, sheet: 18 1/2 x 14 in. (47 x 35.6 cm), Drawings, Cornelius Varley (British, London 1781?1873 London), Before photography was invented, artists often used optical tools for assistance. Cornelius Varl...
EditorialWhite rose, Rosa lucida. Handcoloured copperplate botanical drawn, engraved and coloured by Henry Charles Andrews for his own "Roses, a monograph of the genus Rosa," London, 1806. Andrews was an English botanist, artist and engraver who published the "...
EditorialIronwort; Figwort, Hasty Roger (Scrophularia lucida), labeled as varieties of sayd?r?t?s right and middle; Not Ironwort; possibly Yarrow (Achillea sp.) as shown on f. 187v left left, still image, 1889 - 1890, M?rz? B?qir (fl. 19th c.), Dioscorides Peda...
EditorialAntwerp Cathedral, Sir John Frederick William Herschel, first Baronet, 17921871, British, 1824, Graphite camera lucida drawing on medium, smooth, cream wove paper mounted on sheet of cream wove paper, Mount: 7 5/8 ? 11 1/2 inches (19.4 ? 29.2 cm) and S...
EditorialJohn Herschel, Exterior view of the Amphitheatre, Nimes, September 21, 1826, pencilon paper, camera lucida drawing, 9 7/8x 15 3/16 in. (25.1x 38.6 cm), Sir John Herschel was one of the most accomplished men of science in nineteenth-century Britain. He ...
EditorialViolet Virginia rose, Rosa virginiana. Rosa lucida, Rosier luisant. Rosier a feuilles luisantes. Stipple copperplate engraving by Rosine-Antoinette Bessin handcoloured a la poupee after a botanical illustration by Pierre-Joseph Redoute from the first f...
EditorialLachenalia pallida (Glossy leaved lachenalia, Lachenalia lucida). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis' The Botanical Magazine, London, 1811.
EditorialDouble dart or soothsayer, Graphiphora augur 1, pale shoulder, Acontia lucida 2,3, four-spotted moth, Tyta luctuosa 4,5, and druid moth, Aedia funesta 6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die ...
EditorialBonneville near Geneva on Road to Chamonix, Sir John Frederick William Herschel (British, 1792 - 1871), August 13, 1821, Graphite drawing made with the aid of a camera lucida, 19.4 ? 29 cm (7 5/8 ? 11 7/16 in.).
EditorialView of Madras looking south from the fort, with main landmarks numbered. Inscribed on original label: ‘View along the South Beach. 1. Government House. 2. Banqueting Room (detached) 3. The Mount. 4. Palaveram. 5. Conspicuous Mosque. 6. Marine Bunga...
EditorialValley of Fassa from Opposite Gries. Date/Period: 1834. Graphic art. Graphite drawing made with the aid of a camera lucida. Height: 200 mm (7.87 in); Width: 308 mm (12.12 in).
EditorialPortrait of a Man in Profile, 19th century, Graphite, sheet: 18 1/2 x 14 in. (47 x 35.6 cm), Drawings, Cornelius Varley (British, London 1781?1873 London), Before photography was invented, artists often used optical tools for assistance. Cornelius Varl...
EditorialBladdernut or wild coffee, Diospyros whyteana (Shining royena, Royena lucida). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Edwards' Botanical Register, edited by John Lindley, London, Ridgeway, 1846.
EditorialVirginia rose, Rosa luisante, Rosa lucida. Handcoloured lithograph by Lecouturier after a botanical illustration by Mlle. F. Legendre from Pierre Boitard's Rose-Lover's Complete Manual, Roret, Paris 1836.
EditorialVirginia rose, Rosa lucida, and Rosa truncata major. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1790-1830. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts m...
EditorialSmall flowered begonia, Begonia humilis (Begonia lucida). 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 illustr...
EditorialVirginia rose, Rosa virginiana (Rosa lucida). Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Bessin after an illustration by Pierre-Joseph Redoute from "Les Roses," Firmin Didot, Paris, 1817.
EditorialLucida Duplex (clynophylla) white and pink rose. Chromolithograph by Georges Severeyns from an illustration by Walter H. Fitch from William Paul's "The Rose Garden in two divisions," London, 1888. First issued in 1848 with 15 coloured plates, "The Rose...
EditorialVirginia rose, Rosa lucida, and Rosa truncata major. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1790-1830. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts m...
EditorialWhite rose, Rosa lucida. Handcoloured copperplate botanical drawn, engraved and coloured by Henry Charles Andrews for his own "Roses, a monograph of the genus Rosa," London, 1806. Andrews was an English botanist, artist and engraver who published the "...