EditorialGiant petrel, Macronectes giganteus (as Precellaria gigantea, error for Procellaria gigantea). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1824.
EditorialGiant puffball, Calvatia gigantea (Lycoperdon giganteum), common puffball, Lycoperdon gemmatum, and pestle puffball, Handkea excipuliformis (Lycoperdon saccatum). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by William Hamilton Gibson from his book ...
EditorialSaguaro cactus, Carnegiea gigantea (Cereus giganteus). 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, 1862-65.
EditorialTall canna, Canna tuerckheimii (Canna gigantea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after an illustration by John Curtis from Samuel Curtis's "Botanical Magazine," London, 1822.
EditorialGiant cabuya, Furcraea foetida (Gigantic furcroea, Furcroea gigantea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell for Samuel Curtis' continuation of William Curtis' Botanical Magazine, London, 1821.
EditorialAzure hawker, Aeshna caerulea 1, Lampyris gigantea 2, Phoraspis picta 3, and lantern fly, Phrictus diadema 4. Handcoloured lithograph from John O. Westwood's new edition of Dru Drury's "Illustrations of Exotic Entomology," Bohn, London, 1837.
EditorialGiant cabuya, Furcraea foetida (Fourcroya gigantea), flower A, native to the Caribbean. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a Germ...
EditorialGigantic cleome, Cleome viridiflora (Cleome gigantea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Swan after an illustration by William Jackson Hooker from Samuel Curtis' "Botanical Magazine," London, 1832.
EditorialCarrion plants: Dewy (Stapelia gigantea), Hirsute (S. hirsuta) and Bell-shaped (S. campanulata). Painted by Peter Henderson, engraved by Burke. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving from Dr. Robert Thornton's "Temple of Flora," Lottery edition, Lo...
EditorialGiant canna, Canna tuerckheimii (Tall Indian shot, Canna gigantea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his own "Exotic Flora," Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823. Hooker (1785-1865) was a...