Clarence’s death and Luigi’s Forget-Me-Not
104 years ago today, 17 July 1918, was a sunny day in Casterino. Luigi Pollini carried Clarence Bicknell out onto the terrace […]
Category: Botany
The Dandelion – Clarence’s favourite plant
Clarence’s favourite flower, the humble Dandelion, in one of the vellum-bound albums by Clarence Bicknell in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. This image […]
Nice Historique – Les Botanistes aux Sommets
We received today copies of the latest edition of Nice Historique, the journal of the Acadèmia Nissarda. It features the Botanistes aux […]
Margaret = Margherita = Daisy
A decorative floral design from his Book of Guests in Esperanto written and drawn by Clarence Bicknell between 1910 and 1918. Clarence […]
Gentians in The Children’s Book of Wild Flowers by Clarence Bicknell
The Children’s Book of Wild Flowers by Clarence Bicknell has watercolour drawings of four flowers on the righthand page and their description […]
Clarence Bicknell – symmetrical Solanum
Clarence Bicknell created this symmetrical pattern in one of the vellum-bound albums now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. It’s the Solanum linnaeanum […]
French Botanists at Casa Fontanalba in 1910
The Casa Fontanalba Visitors’ Book, of which we published a reproduction in 2017, continues to reveal stories of Clarence and his eminent […]
Celebrating Graham Avery’s 10 years working on Clarence Bicknell
We celebrated by Zoom on Friday night the ten years since Graham Avery started working with us on Clarence. Below you can […]
The Book of Guests in Esperanto – the mystery of the end date
Our team is working hard on the upcoiming publication of the the Book of Guests in Esperanto by Clarence Bicknell, a little […]
Monogram B in the index of a Vellum-bound album
Here is a monogram B in the index of a Vellum-bound album by Clarence Bicknell in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Even in […]