Wiosenne kwiaty

Stilleven met bloemen. Op een plint staat een vaas met een boeket bloemen (anjers, viooltjes en dahlia's).

Stilleven met bloemen. Groot boeket met talloze soorten bloemen in een houten kuip. Tussen de bloemen verschillende insecten.

So many flowers in a small glass of water! This must have made an exceedingly lavish impression on a 17th-century viewer. Flowers were expensive at the time; gardens would have had only a few flowers, surrounded by much greenery. Jan Brueghel II was a fai…

Stilleven met bloemen in een Wan Li-vaas. Boeket met tulpen, rozen en narcissen in een vaas. Op de stenen plint een anjer en een cyclaam.

The taste for overcrowded flower and fruit still lifes became outmoded at the end of the 18th century. Henriëtte Geertruida Knip responded to this change, painting watercolours like this one with only a few kinds of blossoms and, moreover, omitting the va…

Colenbrander designed decorations for porcelain and earthenware, carpets, and upholstery fabric. Flower Market may be a design for a tile picture or plaque. A bunch of tulips can be discerned in the ingenious pattern of lines. At the upper right the artis…

This bouquet with two tulips has been exceptionally rendered. The quality of the depiction of the flowers on the white glaze equals that of the work of painters or draughtsmen on canvas or paper. Originally the plaque would have been framed, like a painti…

Textile artists from the early 20th century sometimes drew their inspiration from the past – as is the case here. They looked particularly to the period around 1700, when colourful compositions with overlapping flowers and fans were also popular. The kimo…

Lettering: Buttercup Traveller's joy Wood anemone Pheasant's eye Globe flower Columbine Monk's hood White water lily Prickly poppy Yellow horn poppy Dyer's woad Whitlow grass

Lettering: Polygalaceae, (Juss) Polygald vulgaris, L. common milkwort. printed in colours by Bradbury & Evans, patentees, Whitefriars, London.

Lettering: Anacardium occidentale L. Peint d'après nature par Mme Berthe Hoola van Nooten, à Batavia. Chromolith: par P. Depannemaeker, à Ledeberg-lez-Gand, (Belgique)

Borage is a Mediterranean plant, from the Family Boraginaceae, which has naturalised in Britain. It has been used medicinally since at least the time of Dioscorides (70AD) who recommended the leaves in wine for fevers and to ‘cause mirth’. This belief per…

Lettering: MUSÆ fructu longiori flores et fructus in naturali magnitudine. ...

Lettering: Botany. the different forms or divisions of flowers. J. Pass sculp.

346:e8707). Called 'the Indian Sunne or Golden Floure of Perrowe [Peru], Chrysanthemum Peruvianum' by Lyte (1578), it had only recently been introduced so he writes 'Of the vertue of this herbe and floure, we are able to say nothing because th…

Shows plant with yellow daisy-like flowers on branching stems. Dark green leaves. Contains triterpenoid sapogenins. Has been used externally in compresses to soothe inflamed or irritated skin. Slows the heartbeat and reduces stimulation of the nerve endin…

Schets van een vaas met rose bloemen over resten van een potloodtekening van huizen.

Herman Henstenburgh is known for the pure and powerful colours with which he rendered his remarkably soft, even rarefied, floral still lifes. He often painted them on costly parchment, such as here. In spite of his fame and the expensive materials he used…

Known primarily for her etchings, after 1900 the American artist Bertha Jaques also made numerous photograms of wild flowers. Jaques placed the flowers on a sheet of cyanotype paper, which she exposed to light and then developed in water. The flower thus …

Large panels of tiles depicting vases of flowers were often fitted into fireplaces. The tiles could withstand heat and formed an attractive decoration in the otherwise bare hearth when there was no fire. Such panels would later form part of the tiling of …

Compared to flower still-lifes of the early seventeenth century, this painting is a real floral explosion. Rather than a stiff bouquet, we see a colourful profusion of flowers hanging over the edge of the vase. One special detail is the reflection in the …

In 1970, Cyprus took part in the European Conservation Year the aims of which were to agree on policies, which will help conserve and improve the quality of the environment and adopt the measures necessary to implement them. Cyprus is endowed with a rich …

the roots being green and bruised [crushed up] take away blackness and blewness of a stroke [ie a blow] being applied thereto.'. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.

it is chiefly used now to adulterate saffron’ (Lindley, 1838). Avoid in pregnancy as it is a uterine stimulant (Medicines Control Agency, 2002). Flowers are added to salads and stews, and edible (although it is never suggested that one eats more than one)…

'wort' has been used in England since the 9th century to mean root or plant. Parkinson (1640) notes Anthylis prior and Anthyllis lentisimilis (Dodoens) Anthyllis leguminosa (Lobel, Clusius) Lagopodium (Tabermontanus) Arthetica wundkraut Saxonum (T…

Daffodils X-rayed on to full plate X-ray film. Daffodils are common spring flowers with white, yellow or orange trumpet flowers. Bulbs from daffodils and some species of the Amaryllidaceae family contain the toxic alkaloid lycorine and are poisonous if in…

Lettering: Hina-Paretti

Lettering: Hina-Paretti

professor of mathematics at the University of Marburg (Oakeley, 2012). Gerard (1633), using the name Periclymenum, woodbinde or honisuckles, says that the flowers stop ‘pissing of blood’ and can be used for soreness of the throat and ‘the secret parts’. M…

Origanum vulgare (Oregano or Marjoram) Bushy plant with purple stem, ovate green leaves and clusters of pink flowers and purple buds. Widely used as a culinary herb and in dental preparations because it contains thymol, valuable for its antiseptic, antiba…

Digitalis lanata Ehrh. Scrophulariaceae Woolly or Grecian foxglove. Distribution: Eastern Europe. It contains large amounts of cardiac glycosides, such as Digoxin, which are used to treat heart failure by increasing the force of contraction of the heart. …

A large annual plant up to one metre high. Has irregular pointed leaves and single trumpet flower of white or purple. The fruits are green spiny ovals which split when ripe to reveal crinkled black seeds. All parts poisonous. Plant ingestion can lead to d…

Eucomis humilis Bak.

Monnoyer mostly, but not always, published his etchings in albums. This splendid coloured print was meant to hang on the wall in a frame and served as an inexpensive alternative to an oil painting. Because paper is fragile, many such prints have been lost…

IJsvogel zittend op gebogen stengel bij witte lotusbloem.

Mogelijk een surimono.

After X-rays were discovered in 1895, they soon came to be applied in photography. X-radiographs made visible what was concealed to the human eye. They served primarily useful purposes, such as revealing fractures. This photograph, however, was probably t…

Van Aelst’s flower still-lifes are different to those of his predecessors. Rather than painting symmetrical bouquets, he arranged them along a diagonal line. Moreover, he did not light them evenly, opting instead for strong contrasts of light and dark. Th…

Mignon, a painter of flower still-lifes, came from Frankfurt and lived in Utrecht. His lavish flower still-lifes look very similar to those of his master Jan Davidsz de Heem, but they are a little stronger in form and colour. The painting belongs with the…

Lettering: Picotees 1. Barrengers Miss Duke 2. Burroughes Duchess of Sutherland

Brugmansia suaveolens (Willd.)Sweet, Solanaceae. Angels' Trumpets. Semi-woody shrub or small tree. 'Pink Beauty' is a pink flowered cultivar. Named for Sebald Justin Brugmans (1763-1819) Professor of Natural History and Medicine, and director …

Shows mat of long stalked yellow and white flowers with finely divided green leaves. Grown as a herb lawn for its sweet smell. Used in herbal medicine as an anthelmintic.

Rhododendron yakushuminum Nakai, Ericaceae. Cultivar 'Grumpy'. Distribution: Yaku-shima an island off the south coast of Japan. Discovered early 1900s, introduced to UK in 1934. No medicinal value but the leaves of rhododendrons are very poisonous…