Stories
- Article
Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
- Article
Plant portraits
The beautiful and mysterious illustrations in medieval herbals convey a wealth of knowledge about the plants they portray.
- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
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Book design, dissected
Gwen Smith talks to art director Peter Dyer about imagery, colour, type and staying true to the pages within.
Catalogue
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Herpes zoster in a female patient: two views showing site of blister rash in relation to area affected. Pen and ink drawing with watercolour wash by Barbara E. Nicholson, 1953.
Nicholson, BarbaraDate: 1953Reference: 34745iPart of: Barbara Nicholson medical illustration collection.- Books
From xylography to holography : five centuries of natural history illustration / by Gavin D.R. Bridson.
Bridson, Gavin D. R. (Gavin Douglas Ruthven), 1936-Date: 1989- Books
Kräuter- und Pflanzenbücher vom 16. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart : eine Ausstellung der Universitätsbibliothek Düsseldorf,2. Mai - 30. Juni 1984 / Auswahl und Gestaltung : Rudolf Schmitt.
Universitätsbibliothek Düsseldorf.Date: [1984]- Books
Botany in the Low Countries : (end of the 15th century - ca. 1650) Plantin-Moretus Museum exhibition / [editors F. de Nave and D. Imhof].
Date: 1993- Pictures
Stomach ulcer in a 60-year old woman with history of pyloric stenosis: specimen showing perforating ulcer and site of previous gastroenterostomy. Watercolour by Barbara E. Nicholson, 1953.
Nicholson, BarbaraDate: 1953Reference: 34700iPart of: Barbara Nicholson medical illustration collection.