EditorialAlpine pulsatilla, Pulsatilla alpina, spreading pasqueflower, P. patens, meadow pasqueflower, P. pratensis, spring pasqueflower, P. vernalis, and common pasque flower, P. vulgaris. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustra...
EditorialBrilliant-flowered sage, Salvia fulgens, spreading sage, Salvia patens, Mr. Graham's sage, Salvia grahami, and narrow-leaved sage, Salvia angustifolia. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs....
EditorialLate purple American-aster, Symphyotrichum patens (Spreading hairy-stalk'd starwort, Aster patens). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by Edward Dalton Smith from Robert Sweet's The British Flower Garden, Ridge...
EditorialKumataka or kokei ran orchid, Oreorchis patens. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901.
EditorialPaten, 1450?1500, Spanish, Silver-gilt, Overall: diam. 5 13/16 x 1/2 in. (diam. 14.8 x 1.2 cm), Metalwork-Silver, Although they often do not survive together, chalices and patens were concieved as ensembles, much like cups and saucers. The paten sat on...
EditorialAlpine pulsatilla, Pulsatilla alpina, spreading pasqueflower, P. patens, meadow pasqueflower, P. pratensis, spring pasqueflower, P. vernalis, and common pasque flower, P. vulgaris. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustra...
EditorialBrilliant-flowered sage, Salvia fulgens, spreading sage, Salvia patens, Mr. Graham's sage, Salvia grahami, and narrow-leaved sage, Salvia angustifolia. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs....
EditorialClematis patens (Violet-coloured clematis, Clematis caerulea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Nevitt after a botanical illustration by Mrs Augusta Withers from Benjamin Maund and the Rev. John Stevens Henslow's The Botanist, London, 1836.
EditorialSpreading sage, Salvia patens. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by Mrs Augusta Withers from Benjamin Maund and the Rev. John Stevens Henslow's The Botanist, London, 1836.
EditorialLarge blue Mexican sage, Salvia patens. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by G. Barclay after Miss Sarah Drake from John Lindley and Robert Sweet's Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery, G. Willis, London, 1854.
EditorialPaten, 1450?1500, Spanish, Silver-gilt, Overall: diam. 5 13/16 x 1/2 in. (diam. 14.8 x 1.2 cm), Metalwork-Silver, Although they often do not survive together, chalices and patens were concieved as ensembles, much like cups and saucers. The paten sat on...
EditorialPaten, 5th?6th century, Byzantine, Silver, partial gilt, Overall: 9 1/8 x 2 1/16 in. (23.2 x 5.3 cm), Metalwork-Silver, Patens and chalices were the essential containers for the bread and wine of the Divine Liturgy (Eucharist) in Byzantium. The special...
EditorialSilver Dish, 3rd century, Made in Gaul, Late Roman, Silver, Overall: 1 3/8 x 7 1/4 in. (3.5 x 18.4 cm), Metalwork-Silver, This silver dish, found with the patera in this case, was worked on a lathe to create the decorative concentric circles on its int...
EditorialClematis patens (Violet-coloured clematis, Clematis caerulea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Nevitt after a botanical illustration by Mrs Augusta Withers from Benjamin Maund and the Rev. John Stevens Henslow's The Botanist, London, 1836.
EditorialSpreading sage, Salvia patens. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by Mrs Augusta Withers from Benjamin Maund and the Rev. John Stevens Henslow's The Botanist, London, 1836.
EditorialLarge blue Mexican sage, Salvia patens. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by G. Barclay after Miss Sarah Drake from John Lindley and Robert Sweet's Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery, G. Willis, London, 1854.
EditorialJapanese clematis or kazaguruma, Clematis patens. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaire's Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, Ghent, Belgium, 1856.
EditorialLarge double clematis, John Gould Veitch, kazaguruma, Clematis patens. Collected in Japan in 1862 by Robert Fortune. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaire's Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et...
EditorialLate purple American-aster, Symphyotrichum patens (Spreading hairy-stalk'd starwort, Aster patens). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by Edward Dalton Smith from Robert Sweet's The British Flower Garden, Ridge...
EditorialKazaguruma or Japanese windmill flower, Clematis patens C. Morren et Decne. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1889.
EditorialKumataka or kokei ran orchid, Oreorchis patens. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901.