Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events
28 results
  • Baptisia tinctoria (Wild indigo)
  • India:an indigo plantation, an overseer looking on, as others work picking indigo plants and processing them. Engraving, 1778.
  • Dyeing: vats and cauldrons for extracting indigo. Coloured engraving by J. Pass.
  • Pigments: a mill for grinding colours, and an indigo grinding mill. Engraving by H. Mutlow.
  • Textiles: tapestry dyeing, a vat and other utensils for indigo. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Indigo plant (Indigofera tinctoria L.): flowering stem with separate flower and fruit segments. Coloured engraving by J.J. or J.E. Haid, c.1750, after G.D. Ehret.
  • Flowering stems of the indigo plant (Indigofera tinctorum) and coffee plant (Coffea arabica). Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1706.
  • An indigo plant (Indigofera stachyoides): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured engraving by G. Barclay, c. 1843, after S. Drake.
  • An indigo plantation in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and a white overseer. Engraving, 1683, after S. Leclerc, ca 1671.
  • A Chinese figure, wearing indigo coloured silk robes with white undergarments,pictured with a fan. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • Plants, fish and a landscape from the East Indies, including pepper, cocoa, indigo and coffee plants. Line engraving after C. de Bruins, 1706.
  • A Chinese figure, seated wearing pale turquoise coloured silk robes with an indigo border and buff undergarments. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • Gum cistus (Cistus ladanifer L.) and bastard indigo (Amorpha fruticosa L.): flowering and fruiting stems. Coloured engraving by H. Fletcher, c. 1730, after J. van Huysum.
  • A Chinese figure with white beard, seated wearing indigo coloured silk robes with a brown border and buff undergarments. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • L'art de l'indigotier / Par M. de Beauvais.
  • L'art de l'indigotier / Par M. de Beauvais.
  • Antilles islands: plants, trees, animals, agriculture, and customs of the people. Engraving, 1732, after S. Leclerc, ca 1671.
  • Pigments: mills for grinding colours, and a man grinding at a muller, with a ventilator hood above. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1824.
  • Dyeing: dyers' and fullers' mills for extracting plant dyes. Coloured engraving by J. Pass.
  • DMA 38 : precision density meter with built-in thermostat / Anton Paar K.G.
  • DMA 38 : precision density meter with built-in thermostat / Anton Paar K.G.
  • The arrival of a purple griffin, representing Cardinal Franciotti, is greeted in Lucca by virtues, a river god accompanied by naiads, and genii. Etching after P. Testa.
  • Soapona / R.W. Bell & Co.
  • Soapona / R.W. Bell & Co.
  • Patna seen from the Ganges, Bihar. Coloured aquatint by Thomas Daniell, 1795.
  • C14 Chinese medication chart: Rashes etc.
  • A woman with shears holding a sheep; representing June. Engraving.
  • A haggard old woman carelessly mixing a recipe for corns on the fire in her sordid bedroom. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.