EditorialMandolin, Silver filigree, Top worked in plumose designs; equipped with four keys and brass strings. Underside of sound box opens on hinge and is constructed of radiating ribs with open scrollwork filling the spaces between., Italy, mid-19th century, m...
EditorialPlumose anemone, Metridium dianthus (Carnation actinia, Actinia dianthus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1802.