EditorialRedcurrant, Ribes rubrum, and gooseberry, Ribes grossularia. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Goetz from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1805. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and m...
EditorialCurrant varieties: Blackcurrant, Ribes nigrum; Dutch redcurrant, Ribes rubrum; and white currant, Ribes glandulosum. Handcoloured stipple engraving of an illustration by George Brookshaw from his own "Pomona Britannica," London, Longman, Hurst, etc., 1...
EditorialMagpie moth, Abraxas grossulariata, on a redcurrant branch, Ribes rubrum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and etched by Jacob l'Admiral in Naauwkeurige Waarneemingen omtrent de veranderingen van veele Insekten (Accurate Descriptions of the Met...
EditorialCurrants and berries, fruits en baies. Gooseberry, Ribes uva-crispa 1,4,5, white currant 2, redcurrant, Ribes rubrum 3,6, and blackcurrant, Ribes nigrum 7. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lebrun after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pi...
EditorialLesser Redpoll Linnet, Alpine Redcurrant (Acanthis cabaret, Linaria minor), Signed: J.J. Audubon, J.T. Bowen, lithograph, Pl. 179 (Vol. 3), Audubon, John James (drawn); Bowen, J. T. (lith.), 1856, John James Audubon: The birds of America: from drawings...
EditorialCurrants and berries, fruits en baies. Gooseberry, Ribes uva-crispa 1,4,5, white currant 2, redcurrant, Ribes rubrum 3,6, and blackcurrant, Ribes nigrum 7. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lebrun after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pi...
EditorialLesser Redpoll Linnet, Alpine Redcurrant (Acanthis cabaret, Linaria minor), Signed: J.J. Audubon, J.T. Bowen, lithograph, Pl. 179 (Vol. 3), Audubon, John James (drawn); Bowen, J. T. (lith.), 1856, John James Audubon: The birds of America: from drawings...
EditorialWhite variety of redcurrant, Ribes sanguineum albidum. 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, 1845.
EditorialMagpie moth, Abraxas grossulariata, on a redcurrant branch, Ribes rubrum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and etched by Jacob l'Admiral in Naauwkeurige Waarneemingen omtrent de veranderingen van veele Insekten (Accurate Descriptions of the Met...
EditorialRedcurrant, Ribes rubrum, and gooseberry, Ribes grossularia. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Goetz from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1805. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and m...
EditorialCostume of Madame Peters, merveilleuse. She wears an English Jockey hat with huge brim, a dress in redcurrant-coloured florence, a black lace scarf "a la Marie-Antoinette" over a blue silk bodice. Handcoloured etching by Auguste Etienne Guillaumot Jr. ...
EditorialRedcurrant, Ribes rubrum, with leaf, stalk, fruit and flower. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 1830...
EditorialRedcurrant, Ribes rubrum. 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.
EditorialCurrant varieties: Blackcurrant, Ribes nigrum; Dutch redcurrant, Ribes rubrum; and white currant, Ribes glandulosum. Handcoloured stipple engraving of an illustration by George Brookshaw from his own "Pomona Britannica," London, Longman, Hurst, etc., 1...