EditorialFresco from Pompeii. Hermaphrodite holding a waterlily leaf gracefully raises the mantle to reveal male and female characteristics. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Paris, 183...
EditorialFresco from Pompeii. Hermaphrodite holding a waterlily leaf gracefully raises the mantle to reveal male and female characteristics. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Paris, 183...
EditorialForms of the waterlily tulip, Tulipa kaufmanniana. Silkscreen botanical illustration by Elsie Katherine Dykes from William R. Dykes' Notes on Tulip Species, Herbert Jenkins Ltd., London, 1930.
EditorialHybrids of maculate tulip, Tulipa greigii x waterlily tulip, Tulipa kaufmanniana. Silkscreen botanical illustration by Elsie Katherine Dykes from William R. Dykes' Notes on Tulip Species, Herbert Jenkins Ltd., London, 1930.
EditorialAfrican vegetation including papyrus, date palm, banana tree, waterlily, etc. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrrario's Costumes Antique and Modern of All Peoples (Il Costume Antico e Moderno di Tutti i Popoli), Flor...
EditorialWhite waterlily, Nymphaea alba. 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.
EditorialRed waterlily tulip, Tulipa kaufmanniana var. coccinea. Silkscreen botanical illustration by Elsie Katherine Dykes from William R. Dykes' Notes on Tulip Species, Herbert Jenkins Ltd., London, 1930.
EditorialHybrid of waterlily tulip, Tulipa kaufmanniana x maculate tulip, Tulipa greigii. Silkscreen botanical illustration by Elsie Katherine Dykes from William R. Dykes' Notes on Tulip Species, Herbert Jenkins Ltd., London, 1930.
EditorialGiant waterlily, Victoria amazonica (Victoria water-lily, Victoria regia), unexpanded flower, ovary in section, and leaf underside. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Walter Fitch from Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Curtis's B...
EditorialGiant waterlily, Victoria amazonica (Victoria water-lily, Victoria regia), torus, stamen, ovary, ovules, stigma and fruit outline. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Walter Fitch from Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Curtis's Bo...
EditorialFresco from Pompeii. Hermaphrodite holding a waterlily leaf gracefully raises the mantle to reveal male and female characteristics. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Paris, 183...
EditorialAsaza or fringed waterlily, Nymphoides peltata. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900.
EditorialEuropean white waterlily, Nymphaea alba. 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, but the t...
EditorialMedieval man fishing from a boat in a waterlily pond accompanied by a young girl with her hand in the water. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by J. E. Rogers from Francis Cowley Burnand's "Present Pastimes of Merrie England, Cassell, Londo...
EditorialHitsujigusa or dwarf waterlily, Nymphaea tetragona. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1889.
EditorialWaterlily, Nuphar lutea, flower fairy in nun's habit with wimple and veil of leaves, being offered a flaming heart by an insect. Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from "Les Fleurs Anime...