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Indian botanicals and heritage wars

Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.

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Plant portraits

The beautiful and mysterious illustrations in medieval herbals convey a wealth of knowledge about the plants they portray.

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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.

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  • Fac-simile of the inlaid work on the tomb at Agra, called Taje-Mahal, or Crown of the Seraglio. Coloured aquatint after J. Forbes, 1781.
  • A male écorché figure, of whom only the right side of his body has been flayed. He holds the removed skin of his right side in his right hand and pulls back the skin of his left abdomen with his left hand. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
  • A male écorché figure, of whom only the right side of his body has been flayed. He holds the removed skin of his right side in his right hand and pulls back the skin of his left abdomen with his left hand. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
  • An écorché figure seen from the back, holding a length of rope. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
  • A male écorché holding a knife in his left hand, exposing his bowel with his right hand, and resting his right foot on a slab on which a cadaver lies supine. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
  • A male écorché holding a knife in his left hand, exposing his bowel with his right hand, and resting his right foot on a slab on which a cadaver lies supine. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
  • A male écorché figure in three-quarter view seen from the right, holding the skin of his legs in his right hand. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
  • A male écorché figure, lateral view seen from the right, striding towards right, holding disc. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
  • A male écorché figure in three-quarter view seen from the right, holding the skin of his legs in his right hand. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
  • An écorché figure seen from the back, holding a length of rope. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
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