EditorialCuckoo flower or lady's smock, Cardamine pratensis. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 1830. Turpin (1...
EditorialMillefleurs with Animals (Fragment), Fragment of a mille-fleurs carpet. A blue-black background is harmoniously littered with rosette-shaped plants with fluttering flower stems. Recognizable are the cuckoo flower, pansy, periwinkle, daisy and various b...
EditorialDay cuckoo flower (Silene dioica) and medlar (Mespilus germanica), Day cuckoo flower and medlar. FIGs. 17 and 18 on a sheet hand numbered 10. In: Anselmi Boetii de Boot I.C. Brugensis & Rodolphi II. Imp. Novel. medici a cubiculis Florum, Herbarum, ac f...
EditorialCuckoo flower, Cardamine pratensis. Handcoloured woodblock engravings from James Main's Popular Botany, Orr and Smith, London, 1835. James Main (1775-1846) was a Scottish gardener, botanist and writer.
EditorialCuckoo flower, Cardamine pratensis. Handcoloured woodblock engravings from James Main's Popular Botany, Orr and Smith, London, 1835. James Main (1775-1846) was a Scottish gardener, botanist and writer.
EditorialCuckoo flower or lady's smock, Cardamine pratensis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Guimpel from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and professor of pharmaceutical bo...
EditorialCuckoo flower or lady's smock, Cardamine pratensis. 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...
EditorialCuckoo flower, Cardamine pratensis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Icones plantarum medicinalium," Germany, 1796. Zorn (1739-99) was a German pharmacist and botanist who travelled all over Europe searching for medicinal plants.
EditorialCuckoo flower or lady's smock, Cardamine pratensis. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 1830. Turpin (1...