EditorialGebel Sheikh Eredi. Date/Period: 1867. Landscape. Watercolor with pen in black and cochineal ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper. Height: 76 mm (2.99 in); Width: 273 mm (10.74 in).
EditorialBetween Thebes and Erment. Date/Period: 1867. Marine art. Watercolor with pen in brown ink, and cochineal, over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper. Height: 67 mm (2.63 in); Width: 197 mm (7.75 in).
EditorialMustard plant with cochineal beetles, jackfruit tree, water buffalo and orangutan. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri after Francois Solvyns from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World,...
EditorialFarmers harvesting cochineal beetles, Dactylopius coccus, from Opuntia cochenillifera cactus and roasting and drying the insects to prepare carmine dye, Mexico, circa 1800. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Pict...
EditorialCochineal cactus, Nopalea cochenillifera, Opuntia cochenillifera, Cactus cochenillifer, Cactus coccinellifer, Cactus a cochenilles. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dup...
EditorialCarrying cloth, Medium: red wool with white cotton Technique: plain weave with continuous supplementary warp and weft patterning Label: wool plain weave with supplementary warp and weft patterning, Carrying cloth of loosely woven, overspun wool yarn, i...
EditorialGebel Sheikh Eredi. Date/Period: 1867. Landscape. Watercolor with pen in black and cochineal ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper. Height: 76 mm (2.99 in); Width: 273 mm (10.74 in).
EditorialBetween Thebes and Erment. Date/Period: 1867. Marine art. Watercolor with pen in brown ink, and cochineal, over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper. Height: 67 mm (2.63 in); Width: 197 mm (7.75 in).
EditorialNear Mesghouneh, Edward Lear, 18121888, British, 1867, Watercolor, graphite, gouache, cochineal, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 2 1/4 x 8 5/8 inches (5.7 x 21.9 cm), boats, marine art, river, river, s...
EditorialThebes, Edward Lear, 18121888, British, 1854, Watercolor, graphite, pen and cochineal and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 1 7/8 x 6 3/16 inches (4.8 x 15.7 cm), figures (representations), landscape, river, r...
EditorialSunset along the Nile, Edward Lear, 18121888, British, 1867, Watercolor, graphite, pen and cochineal ink on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 2 15/16 x 8 1/2 inches (7.5 x 21.6 cm), landscape, river, river, sunset, trees, water, Africa...
EditorialFestival Banner Showing Krishna Rescuing and Marrying Rukmini, India, Punjab Hills, kingdom of Chamba, ca. 1800, India, Punjab Hills, kingdom of Chamba, Cotton embroidered with floss silk dyed with safflower, cochineal, lac, and indigo, and metal-wrapp...
EditorialFarmers harvesting cochineal beetles, Dactylopius coccus, from Opuntia cochenillifera cactus and roasting and drying the insects to prepare carmine dye, Mexico, circa 1800. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Pict...
EditorialCochineal cactus, Nopalea cochenillifera, Opuntia cochenillifera, Cactus cochenillifer, Cactus coccinellifer, Cactus a cochenilles. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dup...
EditorialAn Oriental Potentate Accompanied by His Halberd Bearer, Jusepe de Ribera (Spanish / Italian, 1591 - 1652), Spain, about 1625 - 1630, Point of the brush with carmine red ink (from cochineal?), squared in pen and brown ink, 23 ? 13.5 cm (9 1/16 ? 5 5/16...
EditorialMilk Hedge and Cochineal, Possibly Captain Allan Scott (British, 1824 - 1870), India, about 1862, Albumen silver print, 7.2 ? 13.5 cm (2 13/16 ? 5 5/16 in.).
EditorialMustard plant with cochineal beetles, jackfruit tree, water buffalo and orangutan. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri after Francois Solvyns from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World,...
EditorialCochineal-coloured passionflower, Passiflora kermesina. 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.
EditorialGebel Sheikh Eredi. Date/Period: 1867. Landscape. Watercolor with pen in black and cochineal ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper. Height: 76 mm (2.99 in); Width: 273 mm (10.74 in).
EditorialBetween Thebes and Erment. Date/Period: 1867. Marine art. Watercolor with pen in brown ink, and cochineal, over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper. Height: 67 mm (2.63 in); Width: 197 mm (7.75 in).
EditorialGebel Sheikh Eredi. Date/Period: 1867. Landscape. Watercolor with pen in black and cochineal ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper. Height: 76 mm (2.99 in); Width: 273 mm (10.74 in).
EditorialBetween Thebes and Erment. Date/Period: 1867. Marine art. Watercolor with pen in brown ink, and cochineal, over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper. Height: 67 mm (2.63 in); Width: 197 mm (7.75 in).
EditorialMustard plant with cochineal beetles, jackfruit tree, water buffalo and orangutan. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri after Francois Solvyns from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World,...
EditorialCochineal-coloured passionflower, Passiflora kermesina. 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.
EditorialCochineal beetle, Dactylopius coccus (Coccus cacti) on a prickly pear cactus, Opuntia species. Handcoloured lithograph from Georg Friedrich Treitschke's Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches, Liepzig, 1840.
EditorialAn Oriental Potentate Accompanied by His Halberd Bearer; Jusepe de Ribera, Spanish / Italian, 1591 - 1652; Spain, Europe; about 1625 - 1630; Point of the brush with carmine red ink (from cochineal?); squared in pen and brown ink; 23 x 13.5 cm (9 1/16 x...
EditorialFarmers harvesting cochineal beetles, Dactylopius coccus, from Opuntia cochenillifera cactus and roasting and drying the insects to prepare carmine dye, Mexico, circa 1800. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Pict...
EditorialCochineal cactus or Indian fig opuntia, Opuntia ficus-indica, with cochineal beetle, Dactylopius coccus. Kermes beetle, Kermes vermilio, with Kermes oak, Quercus coccifera. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch f...
EditorialOpuntia, nopales or paddle cactus, Nopalea cochenillifera (Spineless cochineal fig, Cactus cochinillifer) with cochineal beetles. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful P...