EditorialRose-coloured ixia, a beautiful pink flower of the lily family from South Africa, shown with bulb and leaves at left... Ixia latifolia (Ixia capillaris).
EditorialDate palm, Phoenix dactylifera, palm tree, leaf, bulb and ripe fruit. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botan...
EditorialSaffron crocus, Crocus sativus, with flower, leaf, bulb and stamen. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanic...
EditorialCommon garlic, Allium sativum, with bulb, clove, flower and leaf. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical...
EditorialTassel, Medium: silk and metallic thread on a wood core, Tassel with a turned wooden core (cylinder, bulb and flange) covered with yellow silk and gilt threads in wrapping, trellis, and twisted rolls. Skirt of twisted yellow silk and gold threads. Loop...
EditorialIberian Kernos, c. 200 BC. Triangular-shaped ceramic composed of three small piriform, with a wide bulb and narrow neck, goblets on a rounded base to which they are fused with three brackets. From Moli de l'Espigol site (Municipality of Tornabous). Pro...
Editorial?, ??, ??, ??, Flower and Toad, Qing dynasty (1644?1911), China, Circular fan-shaped album leaf; ink and color on silk, Diam. 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm), Paintings, Zhang Xiong (Chinese, 1803?1886), Adapting the style of the 17th century artist Wang Wu to th...
EditorialIncandescent giant lamp, twelve feet high, mounted on a pedestal crowned by a model of the Edison type bulb, increased 20,000 times. Showed as one of the inventions of Thomas Edison (1847-1931) in the Exposition Universelle of Paris in 1889. Engraving ...
EditorialU.S. President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore arrive at Meridian Hill Park on Earth Day in Washington, District of Columbia, United States - 24 Jul 2010