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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
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Geranium Sanguinarium

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 number2010.29.5
Collections
Visual DescriptionBotanical drawing of Geranium Sanguinarium (bloody cranesbill or bloodred geranium) featuring three varieties each with their roots, green leaves, and pink, red, or purple flowers. From "Hortus Eystettensis", Eichstatt, 1613.
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
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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
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Acantium Silvestri
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.
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1613
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1827-1833
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Plums
George Brookshaw
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Botanical drawing of five nectarine varieties shown next to a clipping of their respective plants with green leaves and pink flowers.
Nectarines
George Brookshaw
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Botanical drawing of Telephium purpurascens (Purple Orpine), a plant with a pink stem, green leaves, cluster of small pink and white flowers, and roots showing.
Telephium
Leonhart Fuchs
1547
Botanical drawing of Clematis daphnoides (large-flowered periwinkle) flower, with green stems and leaves, both blue flowers and purple flowers, and roots showing.
Clematis
Leonhart Fuchs
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Botanical drawing of Sanicula Mas, a plant with thin green stems, large green leaves, small fuzzy purple blooms, and roots showing.
Sanicula Mas
Leonhart Fuchs
1547
Botanical drawing of Tradescantia Rosea (Callisia rosea, Piedmont Roseling), a plant with pink roots, thin green leaves, and small pink three-pointed flowers. Its evolution from bud to flower is depicted near the bottom.
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Pierre-Joseph Redouté
1802-1816
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Leonhart Fuchs
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