Natura Collection

Allegorical scene with Flora, Botany, Physics and Pomona
Flora, crowned with a garden of flowers, offering floral tributes to three figures - Botany (shown holding an alembic), Physics (who is looking through a magnifying glass)

Guelder rose, scabious and thistle protea
Guelder-rose, Viburnum opulus 1, red scabious, Scabiosa peregrina 2, mountain scabious, Pterocephalus dumetorum 3, devils bit, Succisa pratensis 4, and thistle protea, Protea scolymocephala 5-7

Cowslip and pellitory
Cowslip varieties, Primula veris 1-6, and pellitory, Achillea ptarmica 7-8. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Mario Cammerari from Professor Filippo Arenas La natura e cultura dei fiori

Devils trumpet, Datura stramonium 1, 2, and lilac, Syringa vulgaris 3, 4. (Stramonia, Syringa.) Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Mario Cammerari from Professor Filippo Arenas La natura e

Amaranthus species
Amaranth species 1, princes feather, Amaranthus hypochondriacus 2, love lies bleeding, Amaranthus caudatus 3, globe amaranth, Gomphrena globosa 4, and redroot pigweed, Amaranthus retroflexus 5

Thistle protea, Protea scolymocephala (Scolymocephalus africanus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Mario Cammerari from Professor Filippo Arenas La natura e cultura dei fiori fisicamente

Passion fruit or granadilla and meadow saffron
Passion fruit or granadilla, Passiflora ligularis (Clematis passionalis) and meadow saffron, Colchicum autumnale. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Mario Cammerari from Professor Filippo

Wallflower, Erysimum cheiri (Leucojum seu Cheiri). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Mario Cammerari from Professor Filippo Arenas La natura e cultura dei fiori fisicamente esposta

Satyrium orchids and Star of Bethlehem
Satyrium orchids, Satyrium erectum, and Star of Bethlehem, Ornithogalum umbellatum. (Orchis, Satyrium, Ornithogalum) Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Mario Cammerari from Professor Filippo

Stork s-bill, Erodium cicutarium (Geranium seu Noctu-Olens). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Mario Cammerari from Professor Filippo Arenas La natura e cultura dei fiori fisicamente esposta

Cape marigold and marsh marigold
Cape marigold, Dimorphotheca sinuata, and marsh marigold, Caltha palustris. (Calendula seu caltha, Caltha palustris.) Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Mario Cammerari from Professor Filippo

Portuguese squill, sea daffodil and pyramidal bugle
Portuguese squill, Scilla peruviana 1, 2, sea daffodil, Pancratium maritimum 3 and pyramidal bugle, Ajuga pyramidalis 4. (Hyancinthus peruanus, Narcissus major seu Pancratium)

Plans for formal gardens, 18th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Mario Cammerari from Professor Filippo Arenas La natura e cultura dei fiori fisicamente esposta

Two animals: wolf and / or dog
Two animals: wolf and/or dog. Woodcut from Andreas Cirinus, De natura et solertia canum liber singularis. Vol I Date: 1653

THOMAS of Cantimpr頨1201-1276). Codex Granatensis
THOMAS of Cantimpr頨 1201-1276). Codex Granatensis: De natura rerum. 15th c. Illustration about gum arabic. Edition of Granada of the original of the 13th C. Gothic art. Miniature Painting

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