EditorialChristmas wreath of box, laurel and holly, Buxus sempervirens, Prunus laurocerasus, and Ilex aquifolium. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn from nature by Mrs. Rebecca Hey from her own "Spirit of the Woods," London, Longman, Rees, 1837. Rebecca ...
EditorialHolly with flowers and berries, Ilex aquifolium. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn from nature by Mrs. Rebecca Hey from her own "Spirit of the Woods," London, Longman, Rees, 1837. Rebecca Hey was a Victorian writer, poet and artist who wrote "M...
EditorialHolly tree, Ilex aquifolium, with berries. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science," Florence, Italy, 1837. Engraved by Corsi, drawn by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by Batelli e Figli. Turp...
EditorialHolly, Ilex aquifolium. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botany in Nurnberg in 1780 with 500 plates, ...
EditorialCrested fireback, Lophura ignita 3, holly, Ilex aquifolium 4, and coral scallops, Pedum spondyloideum 1,2. Houlette, Houppifere, Houx. Handcoloured steel engraving by Pfitzer after an illustration by A. Carie Baron from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville's...
EditorialCommon holly, Ilex aquifolium. Handcoloured stipple engraving after an illustration by Pierre-Joseph Redoute from Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau's Traite des Arbres et Arbustes, Paris, 1804-1819.
EditorialChristmas wreath of box, laurel and holly, Buxus sempervirens, Prunus laurocerasus, and Ilex aquifolium. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn from nature by Mrs. Rebecca Hey from her own "Spirit of the Woods," London, Longman, Rees, 1837. Rebecca ...
EditorialL'Agrifoglio (Ilex aquifolium.) Holly. Coloured drawings of plants, copied from nature in the Roman States, by Gerardo Cibo. Vol. I. Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Physician, of Siena: Extracts from his edition of Dioscorides' "de re Medica":. Italy, c. 1564-...
EditorialOregon grape, Berberis aquifolium (Fasciculated barberry, Berberis fascicularis). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by John Curtis from William Curtis' Botanical Magazine, Samuel Curtis, London, 1823.
EditorialCommon holly, Ilex aquifolium. 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.
EditorialGolden variegated holly, Ilex aquifolium ciliata aureo-marginata. 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, 1867-1868.
EditorialCommon holly, Ilex aquifolium. 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 botany at Berlin Univer...
EditorialHolly tree, Ilex aquifolium, with berries. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science," Florence, Italy, 1837. Engraved by Corsi, drawn by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by Batelli e Figli. Turp...
EditorialCommon nightingale, Luscinia megarhynchos, and goldcrest, Regulus regulus, on ivy leaves, Hedera helix. Cinereous tit, Parus cinereus, and great tit, Parus major, on a holly bush, Ilex aquifolium. Handcoloured engraving on steel by Fournier after a dra...
EditorialChristmas wreath of box, laurel and holly, Buxus sempervirens, Prunus laurocerasus, and Ilex aquifolium. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn from nature by Mrs. Rebecca Hey from her own "Spirit of the Woods," London, Longman, Rees, 1837. Rebecca ...
EditorialHolly with flowers and berries, Ilex aquifolium. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn from nature by Mrs. Rebecca Hey from her own "Spirit of the Woods," London, Longman, Rees, 1837. Rebecca Hey was a Victorian writer, poet and artist who wrote "M...
EditorialHolly, Ilex aquifolium. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botany in Nurnberg in 1780 with 500 plates, ...