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Botanical drawing of three varieties of Bugloflum including Bugloflum Semper Virens (Pentaglotitis sempervirens L., or evergreen bugloss) at the center. The plants have green leaves and blue or white flowers.
Bugloflum Semper Virens
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Bugloflum Semper Virens

Artist Basil Besler (German, 1561 - 1629)
Date1613
MediumCopperplate engraving, hand colored
Dimensions16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by Peter DeSorcy
Object number2010.29.4
Collections
Visual DescriptionBotanical drawing of three varieties of Bugloflum including Bugloflum Semper Virens (Pentaglotitis sempervirens L., or evergreen bugloss) at the center. The plants have green leaves and blue or white flowers. From "Hortus Eystettensis", Eichstatt, 1613.
Botanical drawing of Geranium Sanguinarium (bloody cranesbill or bloodred geranium) featuring three varieties each with their roots, green leaves, and pink, red, or purple flowers.
Geranium Sanguinarium
Basil Besler
1613
Botanical drawing of Papaver Corniculatum Luteum (Glaucium corniculatum L. or yellow horned poppy) with green leaves and yellow flowers. Also featured to the left is a yellow pansy with white and yellow flowers, and to the right is an purple pansy with purple flowers.
Papaver Corniculatum Luteum
Basil Besler
1613
Botanical drawing of three plants: center, Cataputia Vulgaris (Large Mediterranean Spurge or Euphorbia characias L.), a leafy green plant with small yellow-orange buds at the end of its stems; right, Parietaria sylvestris (Cataputia vulgaris, Nummularia, Spring Spurge), a leafy green plant with yellow flowers; and right, Nummularia (Lysimachia nummularia or moneywort, creeping jenny, herb twopence, and twopenny grass), a leafy green plant with many five-pointed yellow flowers.
Cataputia Vilgaris
Basil Besler
1613
Botanical drawing of Acantum Sylvestri flornalbo on the left showing a spiky-stemmed plant with green leaves and round white flowers, and Carduus sphaero cephalus (globe thistle) on the right showing a plant with a smooth green stem, green leaves, and spherical flowers with red-tipped blue petals.
Acantium Silvestri
Basil Besler
1613
Botanical drawing of Rosa Semper-Virens Globosa (evergreen rose) depicting its thorny stem, green leaves, and white flowers. Its red bud is shown near the bottom right.
Rosa Semper-Virens Globosa
Pierre-Joseph Redouté
1817-1824
Botanical drawing of Red magnum (red), Blue perdrigon (dark blue), Le Loyal (purple), and the White magnum bonum (yellow) plums; each of the four plum varieties are depicted as a single fruit hanging on a woody stem with green leaves.
Plums
George Brookshaw
1804-1812
Botanical drawing of five nectarine varieties shown next to a clipping of their respective plants with green leaves and pink flowers.
Nectarines
George Brookshaw
1804-1812
Many different types of hairballs and bezoars from a variety of animals.
CXIV
Albert Seba
1734-1755
Botanical drawing of Periclymenus (possibly Lonicera periclymenum L. or Lonicera caprifolium L., honeysuckle), a plant with green leaves and spindly white and yellow flowers.
Periclymenus
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Four drawings of animals. In the center, a Sri Lankan armadillo casts a shadow below. Above the armadillo is a blue and yellow African viper and a brown African grass snake. Both snakes curl and entwine their bodies. Below the armadillo is a brown and white African grass snake, which stretches its body across the composition. Plate 54 from Volume I of "Locupletissimi Rerum Naturalium Thesauri," Amsterdam: Wetsten, Smith and Waesberg, 1734-1755.
LIIII
Albert Seba
1734-1755
Drawings of ten plants and animals. In the central, a brown and gray limbless lizard of the genus Acontias from Saint Croix. Surrounding the lizard are five common snakes from America and Suriname, of various shades of red, yellow, and black. Arranged symmetrically are two leaves from an American maidenhead fern and two from an African maidenhead fern.
LXIIII
Albert Seba
1734-1755
A possum with babies in its pouch; an armadillo both standings and rolled; a blue, red, and green parrot standing on a tree branch; a red, brown, and white bird in flight; a blue bird standing on a tree branch; and green leaves. Plate 37 from volume I of "Locupletissimi Rerum Naturalium Thesauri," Amsterdam: Wetsten, Smith and Waesberg, 1734-1755.
XXXVII
Albert Seba
1734-1755

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