A picture puzzle engraving of a patriotic posy, the leaves of which frame voids in the shape of the profiles of eight British and European leaders in coalition against Napoleon. It may have been produced as a response to the Bonapartist "Corporal Violette," whose flower included profiles of the Emperor Napoleon, Maria Louisa, and the young King of Rome
Alternative Title:
Rose, shamrock, and thistle
Description:
"To general union, this plate containing profiles of eight illustrious personages is most humbly inscribed, by a friend of liberty.", "Left side: Prince Regent, King of Prussia, Marshall Blucher. Right side: King of England, Emperor of Austria, Duke of Wellington. Center: Louis XVIII, Emperor of Russia.", BAC: British Art Center copy is hand-colored. Trimmed to plate mark., 1 print : etching ; plate mark 16.3 x 12.3 cm, on sheet 16.9 x 12.9 cm., and Printed on thin card; hand-colored.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Europe. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777-1825., Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von, 1742-1819., Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835., Frederick William III, King of Prussia, 1770-1840., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Louis XVIII, King of France, 1755-1824., and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852.
Subject (Topic):
Napoleon, Elba and the Hundred Days, 1814-1815, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Signs and symbols, Political aspects, and Politics and government
De medicinali materia libri sex, Pedanii Dioscoridis Anazarbei, De medicinali materia libri sex, Ioanne Rvellio Svessionensi interprete, and Pedanij Dioscoridis Anazarbei, De medicinali materia libri sex / Ioanne Ruellio Suessionensi interprete. Singulis cum stirpium, tum animantium historijs, ad naturae aemulationem expressis imaginibus, seu uiuis picturis, ultra millenarium numerum adiectis ... ; Additis etiam annotationibus ... per Gualtherum Riuium, Argentinum, medicum. ; Accesserunt priori editioni, Valerij Cordi Simesusij Annotationes doctissimae in Dioscoridis De medica materia libros. ; Euricij Cordi Simesusij Iudicium de herbis & simplicibus medicinae, ac eorum quae apud medicos controuertuntur, explicatio. ; Herbarum nomenclaturae, uariarum gentium ... Aut. Conrado Gesnero, medico. Cum indice quintuplici copiosissimo ...
Description:
The sixth book comprises the De venenis and the De venenatis animalibus, which in the original edition of this translation (1516) were divided into 4 books called books 6-9.
Publisher:
Apud Chr. Egenolphum
Subject (Topic):
Botany, Medical --Early works to 1800, Materia medica, Vegetable --Early works to 1800, and Medicine, Greek and Roman --Early works to 1800