1736 Gallery

Opium poppy varieties, Papaver somniferum

Opium poppy varieties, Papaver somniferum, and Anemone mexicana. Papaver sativum flore saturate purpureo petalis laciniatis, Papaver sativum rubrum flore simplici, Papaver sativum unguibus rubris flore pleno, Papaver spinosum americanum. Handcoloured copperplate mezzotint engraving after Georg Dionysus Ehret from Johann Weinmann's Phytanthoza Iconographia, Ratisbonae, 1736

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Tufted titmouse, northern mockingbird and ovenbird

Tufted titmouse, Baeolophus bicolor, northern mockingbird, Mimus polyglottos and ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapilla. Tufted titmouse 1, mocking-bird 2 and oven-bird 3. Chromolithograph after an ornithological illustration by John James Audubon from Benjamin Harry Warren's Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania, E.K. Mayers, Harrisburg, 1890

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John Bernardi

Major JOHN BERNARDI Soldier, imprisoned on grounds of conspiring as a Jacobite against William III, but he is generally supposed to have been innocent of the charge. Date: 1654 - 1736

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1654, 1736, Bernardi, Charge, Conspiring, Generally, Grounds, Historical, History, Iii, Imprisoned, Innocent, Jacobite, John, Major, Soldier, Supposed, William