Woad Collection

Two Ancient Britons, male and female, painted with woad (a blue dye) and armed with swords and spears

Woaded Briton in Coracle
A native of ancient Britain in woad markings paddles his coracle fishing boat on the river

Britons, tattooed Caledonians and Queen Boudica
Ancient Briton with spear and shield, naked Caledonians with woad tattoos, and Queen Boudica with wooden chariot. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient

Woad species, Isatis tinctoria. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Dyers woad, Isatis tinctoria. Dyer s
Dyers woad, Isatis tinctoria, Pastel des Teinturers. Handcoloured steel engraving by L. Lebrun after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr

Passionflower and dyers woad
Passionflower, Passiflora uraniae 1, and dyers woad, Isatis tinctoria 2. Passiflore, pastel. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Menevilles Dictionnaire Pittoresque d

Woad, Isatis tinctoria. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816

Woad and dyers rocket
Woad or glastum, Isatis tinctoria 1, and dyers rocket, Reseda luteola 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar

Curtis British Entomology Plate 734
Coleoptera: Trogosita mauritanica = Tenebroides mauritanicus [Plant: Isatis tinctoria (Woad)] Date: 1824-39

An ancient Briton in a fishing boat
An ancient Briton in a round coracle boat catching fish with a net. He has paint on his body (woad) which would have been used to intimidate his enemies during battle. Date: circa 400BC

PLANTS / ISATIS TINCTORIA
WOAD Date: early 20th century

Woad-leaved centaurea with yellow fluffy flowers, native of the east, Centaurea glastifolia.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtiss

Pict Warrior
A Pict warrior dressed in woad

Briton, Pict, Roman, Druid
Ancient Briton, Roman, Pict and a Druid

Plants / Isatis Tinctoria
Smallage, or Wild Celery

WOAD
Pict warrior dressed in woad

Uncultivated State
Ancient Britons in their most uncultivated state

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