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Discover more than 300 openly licensed images of plants originating from across the world by Dr. Henry Oakeley at the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London. This dataset depicts flowers in their beauty and tell more about their medical purpose and use.
For example, the honey extract from Eucryphia glutinosa, native to Chile, and its related species found in Australia, have antibacterial and antioxidant activities. The well-known poppy eases pain and induces sleep, while the Physalis alkekengi (Chinese Lantern) that naturally grows in Southern Europe, South and Northeast Asia, is recommended for kidney and urinary problems. These are but a few examples of the vast variety of natural and medical uses of the plants in this collection.
These openly licensed Dutch political illustrated magazines and newspapers focus on the works of political cartoonist and poster artist Albert Hahn (1877-1918). This collection of more than 1,000 prints from the early 20th century were originally published in the socialist newspaper Het Volk and the satirical magazine De Notenkraker. They cover topics such as poverty, the trade union movement and universal suffrage.
Hahn’s illustration on the railway strike of 1903 became one of the most famous in the Netherlands with a text by socialist leader Troelstra that reads, ‘The entire gearwork stops, if your mighty hands will it’.
By the time of World War One, his works focused on criticising what he saw as needless death and destruction.
This openly licensed selection of Impressionist paintings from the late-19th to early-20th century focuses on the works of Ladislav Mednyánszky (1852-1919). The collection of 187 paintings includes landscapes and portrayals of peasants, friends, family and workmen.
Mednyánsky was born in the north-eastern part of the Kingdom of Hungary, now Slovakia, an area that is brought to life in many of his paintings. These works were donated to the Slovak National Gallery by his niece Margita Czóbel in 1972.
