Emblem Gallery

Music cover with Scottish harpist

An unidentified music cover depicting a female Scottish harpist wearing a tartan shawl and medieval costume. The emblem at the top contains the Latin words, Nemo Me Impune Lacessit, which is the motto of the Order of the Thistle (depicted at the bottom of the design), meaning No-one attacks me with impunity

© Mary Evans Picture Library

Pitcher by Bernard Palissy, potter from Saintes

Pitcher by Bernard Palissy, potter from Saintes, Charente, 16th century. With helmet spout, scroll handle, sun emblem, mythical scene, and floral pattern. Now in the Victoria Albert Museum. Hand-finished chromolithograph from Ris Paquot's General History of Ancient French and Foreign Glazed Pottery, Chez l'Auteur, Paris, 1874. Pitcher by Bernard Palissy, potter from Saintes, Charente, 16th century. With helmet spout, scroll handle, sun emblem, mythical scene, and floral pattern. Now in the Victoria & Albert Museum. Hand-finished chromolithograph from Ris Paquot's General History of Ancient French and Foreign Glazed Pottery, Chez l'Auteur, Paris, 1874. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans

The racemose Passionflower, Religious superstition

The racemose Passionflower, Passiflora racemosa, Religious superstition. Handcoloured lithograph by Dean and Munday after an illustration by Eliza Eve Gleadall from The Beauties of Flora, with botanic and poetic illustrations, being a selection of flowers drawn from nature arranged emblematically, Heath Hall, Wakefield, 1834. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans