330 results filtered with: Digital Images, Pictures
- Pictures
- Online
Doctrine of signatures: (above) a plant resembling the fangs of a viper, above, and (below) a viper. Coloured ink drawing, c. 1923, after G.B. Della Porta.
Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615.Date: 1923Reference: 524731i- Pictures
- Online
A tropical plant (Acokanthera spectabilis): flowering stem. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1872, after himself.
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: [1872]Reference: 25906i- Pictures
- Online
An oleander plant (Nerium oleander): flowering stem. Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after A. Bétrérnieux (?).
Bétrérnieux, A.Date: 1850Reference: 27086iPart of: Macédoines variées- Pictures
- Online
Monkshood (Aconitum napellus): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured etching.
Reference: 25334i- Pictures
- Online
Chinese lantern (Physalis alkekengi): fruiting stem. Watercolour by B. Bird.
Bird, B.Reference: 22331i- Pictures
- Online
Deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna): flowering plants growing in woodland. Colour process print, c. 1924.
Date: [1924]Reference: 25605i- Digital Images
- Online
Astrantia maxima Pall. Apiaceae. Large masterwort. The botanical name Astrantia is a corruption of the old apothecaries’ name for this plant, Magistrantia “masterwort”, implying its suitability for use only by adepts in herbalism. Probably mildly poisonous. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Pictures
- Online
Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
Reference: 44113i- Pictures
- Online
Ragwort (Senecio jacobaea): flowering stem, flowers and leaves. Pen and watercolour drawings.
Reference: 22259i- Pictures
- Online
Dragon arum (Dracunculus vulgaris Schott): leaf and base of stem with tuber. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
Date: [1774]Reference: 16902i- Pictures
Herb Paris (Paris quadrifolia L.): entire flowering plant with separate segments of fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.
Reference: 17238i- Pictures
- Online
A plant (Aristolochia sp.) related to birthwort: part of twining, flowering stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
Date: [1774]Reference: 16910i- Pictures
- Online
Hemlock (Conium maculatum): flowering plants growing by a river. Colour process print, c. 1924.
Date: 1 March 1924Reference: 25599i- Pictures
- Online
Four types of hellebore (Helleborus species): flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 27179i- Pictures
- Online
Monkshood (Aconitum napellus): flowering plant. Colour process print, c. 1924.
Date: 12 January 1924Reference: 25596i- Pictures
- Online
Monkshood (Aconitum napellus): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
Naudin, Philibert, active 1870.Date: [1865]Reference: 24662i- Pictures
- Online
Three flowering plants, including a lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis) and an anemone (Anemone species). Nature print by F. Branson, 1854.
Branson, Ferguson, active 1850.Date: 1854Reference: 23765i- Digital Images
- Online
Xanthorhiza simplicissima Marshall Ranunculaceae. Yellow root. Distribution: North America, where it was discovered by the plant collector and explorer William Bartram in 1773. Austin (2004) reports that of the Native Americans, the Cherokee use the crushed plant to make a yellow dye
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
- Online
Podophyllum peltatum (American mandrake). Also known as 'May apple'.
Sue Snell- Pictures
- Online
Solomon's seal (Polygonatum odoratum (Mill.) Druce): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
Date: [1772]Reference: 16590i- Digital Images
- Online
Podophyllum peltatum (American mandrake). Also known as 'May apple'.
Sue Snell- Digital Images
- Online
Podophyllum peltatum (American mandrake)
Rowan McOnegal- Digital Images
- Online
Podophyllum peltatum (American mandrake). Also known as 'May apple'.
Sue Snell- Digital Images
- Online
Xanthorhiza simplicissima Marshall Ranunculaceae. Yellow root. Distribution: North America, where it was discovered by the plant collector and explorer William Bartram in 1773. Yellow-root. Austin (2004) reports that of the Native Americans, the Cherokee use the crushed plant to make a yellow dye
Dr Henry Oakeley- Pictures
Nux-vomica plant (Strychnos nux-vomica): flowering stem, sectioned fruit and floral segments. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1847.
Burnett, M. A., active 1850.Date: [1847]Reference: 23824i