EditorialCommon houseleek, Sempervivum tectorum. 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.
EditorialHouseleek, Sempervivum tectorum, and rock stonecrop, Sedum reflexum. 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 illustrat...
EditorialStinking maithen, Crepis foetida, wall maithen, Crepis tectorum, and laciniated maithen, Crepis biennis. Handcoloured botanical copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from "Culpeper's English Family Physician; or Medical Herbal Enlarged, with Sever...
EditorialHouseleek, Sempervivum tectorum, Dodecagynia, hermaphrodite flower with 12 pistilla. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtis' Lectures on Botany, as delivered in the Botanic Gar...
EditorialField trespe and Dachtrespe, A: Bromus arvensis L. - Field Trespe or Field Trespe, B: Bromus tectorum L. - Roof Trespe, Family: 24. Gramineae, 2. Festucaceae - Grasses, Fescue Grasses, Plate 55, after S, 116 (vol. 1), 1886, Otto Wilhelm Thom?: Prof. Dr...
EditorialThunder leaf (Sempervivum tectorum) and royal candle (Verbascum thapsus), Thunder leaf and royal candle. FIGs. 33 and 34 on a sheet hand numbered 18. In: Anselmi Boetii de Boot I.C. Brugensis, anonymous, 1604 - 1632 and/or 1640, paper, ink, watercolor ...
EditorialHouseleek, Sempervivum tectorum, and rock stonecrop, Sedum reflexum. 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 illustrat...
EditorialFragment with Sempervivum tectorum motif, 1475?1525, Italian (Milan, probably), Silk, Overall: 10 x 21 5/8 in. (25.4 x 54.9 cm), Textiles-Velvets.
EditorialHouseleek, Sempervivum tectorum, and rock stonecrop, Sedum reflexum. 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 illustrat...
EditorialFlower fairies of goosefoot, Chenopodium album, as a chef in apron with ladle, sage, Salvia officinalis, and houseleek, Sempervivum tectorum, as maids. Chromolithograph after an illustration by Walter Crane from A Flower Wedding, Cassell, London, 1905.
EditorialCommon houseleek, Sempervivum tectorum. 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.
EditorialStinking maithen, Crepis foetida, wall maithen, Crepis tectorum, and laciniated maithen, Crepis biennis. Handcoloured botanical copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from "Culpeper's English Family Physician; or Medical Herbal Enlarged, with Sever...