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Plate 213 from "The Flowering Plants of Great Britain", showing Scotch Pine, Juniper and Yew. Columbine , larkspur and wolfsbane illustration by Anne Pratt for Wild Flowers , 1852. Anne Pratt (5 December 1806 – 27 July 1893) was a botanical and ornithological illustrator and author from Strood , Kent .
Centipeda is from the Greek word for one hundred feet [6] The epithet cunninghamii honours Allan Cunningham (1791 – 1839), an English botanist and explorer, who collected the specimen in Candolle's first description, [2] [3] and who is primarily known for his travels to Australia (New South Wales) and New Zealand to collect plants and author of Florae Insularum Novae Zelandiae Precursor ...
The painting is part of a private collection but was on display from 14 November 2014 to 29 March 2015 at the Leighton House Museum in London as part of the exhibition A Victorian Obsession: The Pérez Simón collection at Leighton House Museum, the first time since Alma-Tadema's memorial exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1913, that it has ...
Illustration from Floral Poetry and the Language of Flowers (1877). According to Jayne Alcock, grounds and gardens supervisor at the Walled Gardens of Cannington, the renewed Victorian era interest in the language of flowers finds its roots in Ottoman Turkey, specifically the court in Constantinople [1] and an obsession it held with tulips during the first half of the 18th century.
In De humana physiognomia (1586), della Porta used woodcuts of animals to illustrate human characteristics. Both della Porta and Browne adhered to the 'doctrine of signatures'—that is, the belief that the physical structures of nature such as a plant's roots, stem, and flower, were indicative keys (or 'signatures') to their medicinal potentials.
There are many perfectly identifiable flowers in books like The Book of Hours [11] (two volumes) by the Master of Flowers (Maître-aux-fleurs, 15th century) or Jean Bourdichon's Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany (between 1503 and 1508), with 337 plants from the Queen's garden, captioned in Latin and French. These artists' objective was, though ...
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The flower is depicted in the Guyanese coat of arms. [18] Victoria cruziana A.D.Orb. Parana-Paraguay basin: Slightly smaller than V. amazonica, with the underside of the leaves purple rather than the red of V. amazonica, and covered with a peachlike fuzz lacking in V. amazonica. V. cruziana opens its flowers at dusk.