Fort Justin

Plaque, probably from a Reliquary Shrine, c. 1200-1250, Cleveland Museum of Art: Medieval Art

Size: Overall: 3.4 x 5.9 cm (1 5/16 x 2 5/16 in.) Medium: gilded copper; champlevé enamel

From The Fairy Housekeepers by Norma Bright Carson and illustrated by Hazeltine Fewsmith, 1917.

My collection of vintage fish imagery is swimming along.

Netherlandish Proverbs, 1559, Pieter Bruegel the Elder

 Maurandia semperflorens (1836) from ‘Flore des Jardiniers’

Hand-coloured engraving by Jean Pierre Frederic Barrois (French, 1786-after 1841), Pancrace Bessa (French, 1772-1846).

http://clevelandart.org/art/1949.403

Rosa Gallica.

Illustration by Pancrace Bessa taken from ‘Herbier General de L’Amateur’ by Jean Claude Michel Mordant de Launay, M. Loiseleur-Deslongchamps.

Published 1816 by Imprimerie de Didot.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library. 

Biodiversity Heritage Library.    

Rosa semperflorens.

Illustration by Pancrace Bessa taken from ‘Herbier General de L’Amateur’ by Jean Claude Michel Mordant de Launay, M. Loiseleur-Deslongchamps.

Published 1816 by Imprimerie de Didot.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library.

Biodiversity Heritage Library.