Skip to main content
Wellcome Collection homepage
  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
Sign in to your library account
Search for anything
Library account
Concept

Woad (Plant)

Images

  • Woad (Isatis tinctoria L.): flowering stem with separate sections of fruit and flower. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.
  • Twelve British wild flowers with their common names. Coloured engraving, c. 1861, after J. Sowerby.
  • Three British wild flowers, including hedge mustard (Sisymbrium officinale) and woad (Isatis tinctoria). Coloured lithograph, c. 1846, after H. Humphreys.
All images (3)

Catalogue

    • Pictures
    • Online

    Twelve British wild flowers with their common names. Coloured engraving, c. 1861, after J. Sowerby.

    Sowerby, John E. (John Edward), 1825-1870. | Date: 1861 | Reference: 24536i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Woad (Isatis tinctoria L.): flowering stem with separate sections of fruit and flower. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.

    | Reference: 17132i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Three British wild flowers, including hedge mustard (Sisymbrium officinale) and woad (Isatis tinctoria). Coloured lithograph, c. 1846, after H. Humphreys.

    Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879. | Date: [1846] | Reference: 24628i
    • Books

    Mémoires dur différens sujets relatifs aux sciences et aux arts / Par M. de Puymarin.

    Puymaurin, Jean-Pierre-Casimir de Marcassus, baron de, 1757-1841. | Date: 1811
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0001818: Reproduction of a photograph of a pair of "woad merchants" statues at Amiens Cathedral, France

    | Date: 31 March 1931 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/17/10
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
All works (6)

Wellcome Collection

183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE

+44 (0)20 7611 2222
info@wellcomecollection.org

  • Getting here

Today’s opening times

  • Galleries
    10:00 – 20:00
  • Library
    10:00 – 20:00
  • Café
    10:00 – 20:00
  • Shop
    10:00 – 20:00

Opening times

Our building has:

  • Step free access
  • Hearing loops

Access information

  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Jobs
  • Media office
  • Developers
  • Privacy and terms
  • Cookie policy
  • Manage cookies
  • Modern slavery statement
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
SoundCloud
YouTube
Tripadvisor

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence