EditorialSwiss pine or arolla pine, Pinus cembra 1, branch with flower a, cone b, nut c, and stone pine, Pinus pinea 2, branch a, cone b. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. Friedr...
EditorialStone pine, Pinus pinea. 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 "Moral of Flowers" 1833 an...
EditorialTextile, Medium: linen, cotton Technique: block printed and painted on plain weave (yellow applied by block but the blue seems to have been applied by brush), Slightly more than one minumum unit of a half drop repeat a floral vine incorporating a pinea...
EditorialCarpenter's Square, Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, reign of Amenemhat I, early, ca. 19811975 B.C., From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Southern Asasif, Tomb of Meketre, Serdab, stable, 1920, Wood: Pinus pinea or halepensis (US Department of Agriculture, 1965...
EditorialStone pine, Pinus pinea. 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 "Moral of Flowers" 1833 an...
EditorialStrip of needle lace with tulips and pineapples, Piece of natural-colored needle lace, knotted lace. The pattern is based on a 17th-century drawing and consists of two tulip-like flowers with a smaller tulip in between flanked on either side by a pinea...
EditorialStone pine, Pinus pinea. 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 "Moral of Flowers" 1833 an...
EditorialSwiss pine or arolla pine, Pinus cembra 1, branch with flower a, cone b, nut c, and stone pine, Pinus pinea 2, branch a, cone b. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. Friedr...
EditorialStone pine, Pinus pinea. 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 "Moral of Flowers" 1833 an...