Hand-Coloring: How Old Prints and Maps Got Their Color
A hand-colored print was printed in black ink, then colored by hand, usually with watercolor. Before the 1800s,…
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Phytographie Médicale: Joseph Roques’s Book of Plant Poisons
Phytographie médicale is a 2-volume book on poisonous and medicinal plants, published in Paris in 1821 by the…
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Etching: Prints Bitten Into Metal With Acid
Etching makes prints from lines that acid bites into a metal plate. Like engraving, it is an intaglio…
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Copperplate Engraving: Prints Cut by Hand Into Metal
Copperplate engraving, also called line engraving, makes prints from lines cut by hand into a metal plate, usually…
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Köhler’s Fly Agaric Plate: Amanita muscaria (1914)
Köhler’s fly agaric plate shows Amanita muscaria, the red-capped fly agaric, and Amanita caesarea, Caesar’s mushroom. It’s plate…
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Köhler’s Coconut Plate: Cocos nucifera (1898)
Köhler’s coconut plate shows Cocos nucifera, the coconut palm. It’s the second of 2 coconut plates, numbered 75…
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Köhler’s Rose Plate: Rosa centifolia (1890)
Köhler’s rose plate shows Rosa centifolia, the cabbage rose, with its full pink flowers. It’s plate 124 in…
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Köhler’s Pomegranate Plate: Punica granatum (1890)
Köhler’s pomegranate plate shows Punica granatum, the shrub or small tree that bears the many-seeded red fruit. It’s…
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Köhler’s Corn Poppy Plate: Papaver rhoeas (1898)
Köhler’s corn poppy plate shows Papaver rhoeas, the red poppy of farm fields. It’s plate 17 in Köhler’s…
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Köhler’s Jalap Plate: Ipomoea purga (1890)
Köhler’s jalap plate shows Ipomoea purga, a Mexican vine whose root was a powerful laxative. It’s plate 150…
