EditorialWhite opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. 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.
EditorialOpium poppy, Papaver somniferum, Pavot somnifere. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lebrun after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincqs La Regne Vegetal: Flore Medicale, L. Guerin...
EditorialLeaf vegetables and herbs, Herbes potageres et plantes condimenteires. Green and red basil, Ocimum basilicum, opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, thyme, Thymus vulgaris, and bay leaf, Laurus nobilis. Handcoloured steel engraving by Corbie after a botanica...
EditorialOpium poppy flower fairy, Papaver somniferum, with flower hat and dress of leaves. Handcoloured lithograph by Louis Lassalle from Louise Leneveux' Les Fleurs Parlantes (The Talking Flowers), Louis Janet, Paris, 1848.
EditorialOpium poppy flower fairy, Papaver somniferum, in flower bonnet and dress of leaves sprinkling opium from seed pods onto drugged beetles and crickets. Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville f...
EditorialOpium poppy, Papaver somniferum. 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...
EditorialOpium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and horned poppy, Glaucium corniculatum. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illu...
EditorialWhite opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. Handcoloured botanical copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from "Culpeper's English Family Physician; or Medical Herbal Enlarged, with Several Hundred Additional Plants, Principally from Sir John Hill," by ...
EditorialOpium poppy, Papaver somniferum. Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896.
EditorialOpium poppy, Papaver somniferum, Pavot somnifere. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lebrun after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincqs La Regne Vegetal: Flore Medicale, L. Guerin...
EditorialLeaf vegetables and herbs, Herbes potageres et plantes condimenteires. Green and red basil, Ocimum basilicum, opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, thyme, Thymus vulgaris, and bay leaf, Laurus nobilis. Handcoloured steel engraving by Corbie after a botanica...
EditorialOpium poppy, Papaver somniferum. Handcoloured woodblock engravings from James Main's Popular Botany, Orr and Smith, London, 1835. James Main (1775-1846) was a Scottish gardener, botanist and writer.
EditorialOpium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and horned poppy, Glaucium corniculatum. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illu...
EditorialCypriote ring based juglet, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1500?1400 B.C., From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Asasif, Tomb CC 37, Chamber B, burial 78, Carnarvon/Carter excavations, 1907?11, Pottery, black ware, H. 14.5 (5 11/16 in); diam. 5.3 cm (2 1/16 i...
EditorialOpium poppy, Papaver somniferum. Handcoloured woodblock engravings from James Main's Popular Botany, Orr and Smith, London, 1835. James Main (1775-1846) was a Scottish gardener, botanist and writer.
EditorialOpium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and horned poppy, Glaucium corniculatum. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illu...
EditorialWhite opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. 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.
EditorialOpium poppy, Papaver somniferum. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialOpium poppy with seedpod, Papaver somniferum 1, and Cretan milk-vetch, Astracantha cretica 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792.
EditorialOpium poppy, Papaver somniferum 1 and corn poppy, Papaver rhoeas 13. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmann's Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1848.
EditorialGarden or opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, with flower, leaf and seedpod. 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, Panc...
EditorialKeshi or opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and azumagiku or Thunberg's fleabane, Erigeron thunbergii. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900.
EditorialOpium poppy flower fairy, Papaver somniferum, with flower hat and dress of leaves. Handcoloured lithograph by Louis Lassalle from Louise Leneveux' Les Fleurs Parlantes (The Talking Flowers), Louis Janet, Paris, 1848.
EditorialWhite opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. Handcoloured botanical copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from "Culpeper's English Family Physician; or Medical Herbal Enlarged, with Several Hundred Additional Plants, Principally from Sir John Hill," by ...
EditorialOpium poppy flower fairy, Papaver somniferum, in flower bonnet and dress of leaves sprinkling opium from seed pods onto drugged beetles and crickets. Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville f...
EditorialOpium poppy, Papaver somniferum. 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...