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December Sleep taken from ‘The Faery Calendar’ (1920).
Woodcut print by Bernard Sleigh.
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2024.
(Source: collections.vam.ac.uk)
Black Briony, berries. (1776) by Mary Delany (1700-1788).
Collage of coloured papers, with bodycolour and watercolour, on black ink background (1776).
© The Trustees of the British Museum.
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.
(Source: britishmuseum.org)
White Lily.
Taken from ‘The Book of Flower Studies’ by Master of Claude de France (French, circa 1510–1515).
Water colour, organic glazes, gold and silver paint, ink and charcoal on parchment.
Image and text information courtesy The Met.
(Source: metmuseum.org)
Holly branch.
Coloured woodcut (Mattioli, 1568).
Wellcome Collection gallery.
Wikimedia.
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Front cover of December 1897 edition of ‘The Black Cat’ with an illustration of the Black Cat in a holly bush by Nellie Littlehale Umbstaetter.
Source: Scrimbab. Restoration by magscanner.
Internet Archive Python library 1.8.1
(Source: archive.org)
‘Autumnalis’ by Basilius Besler (1561–1629) taken from 'Hortus Eystettensis’ (1613).
Copper engraving print.
Wikimedia.
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Fly Amanita taken from ‘Hortus Medicus’ by John Davie Morries, George Graves. Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Published 1834 by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green.
archive.org
‘Savonnerie de Bagnolet’ (1897) by Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860–1939).
Lithograph.
Art Renewal Center Museum.
Wikimedia.
(Source: Wikipedia)
White or Red Berried Bryony taken from ‘Hortus Medicus’ by John Davie Morries, George Graves. Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Published 1834 by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green.
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‘The Snow Woman’ (1922) from the book 'Dai Chikamatsu Zenshû’ by Uemura Shôen (Japanese, 1875–1949).
Woodblock print. Blockcutter: Yamagishi Kazue (Japanese, 1891–1984). Printer: Nishimura Kumakichi (Japanese, active 1920s).
Image and text information courtesy MFA Boston.
(Source: collections.mfa.org)