PCT4296269: Iran, art of qalamkar: detail of an Iranian textile piece from Isfahan, early 20th century, cotton - a party at the court: maids offer drinks and food to the king (above) and the queen (below). An orchestra of musicians and dancers entertain monarchs. Fruits (apples and pears) furnish the space between the characters - private collection - / Bridgeman Images
FLO4588044: Sodom Apple Tree or Silk Tree - Plate engraved by S.Watts, from an illustration by Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857), from the Botanical Register of Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819), England, 1835 - Milkweed tree or apple of Sodom, Calotropis procera - Engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by Miss Drake from Sydenham Edwards' The Botanical Register ,”” London, Ridgway, 1835, Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4726515: Beef heart, fruit of the annona reticulata and a liana apple (or golden apple or maritambour), fruit of the passion flower with bay leaves. Coloured copper engraving, based on an illustration by Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811), in Encyclopedie d'histoire naturelle, published in Vienna (Austria), 1816. Custard apple, Annona reticulata, and water lemon. Handcolored copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration from G. T. Wilhelm's “” Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte”” (Encyclopedia of Natural History), Vienna, 1816. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergy and naturalist in Augsburg, where the first edition was published. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4599727: Billardiera Variete - Apple berry, apple dumpling or climbing billardiera, Billardiera scandens. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her “” Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants,”” Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was chiefly by her late brother, British botanist Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835). / Bridgeman Images