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Botanical prints from the tropics. More from Nancy Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft’s 1828 “Specimens of the Plants and Fruits of the Island of Cuba.”
Category: Botanical print
Renaissance calligraphy and botany in one. “Mira calligraphae monumenta”. An illuminated manuscript with calligraphy done in 1561 and 1562 by Georg Bocksay, secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I. Flora and fauna added thirty years later by Joris Hoefnagel at the request of Ferdinand’s grandson Rudolph II.
Science crossing into art. Cyanotypes of algae from English botanist Anna Atkins’ 1843 work “Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions.” Collections of the New York Public Library which has one of the thirteen copies made.
Flowers, plates from the 1826 botanical work “Flora conspicua: a selection of the most ornamental flowering, hardy, exotic and indigenous trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, for embellishing flower-gardens and pleasure-grounds.” Published in London, it was written by Richard Morris. William Clark did the drawing and etching.
Paintings of the tropics by English botanical artist and biologist Marianne North (1830-1890). Two in Jamaica and the third of Borneo.
Black and white drawings of designs based on plants with an Art Nouveau kind of attitude from Frank Steeley’s “Nature Drawing and Design” which was published in 1903-1904.
More flowers, these being plates from “Flora conspicua: a selection of the most ornamental flowering, hardy, exotic and indigenous trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, for embellishing flower-gardens and pleasure-grounds” which was published in London in 1826 and written by Richard Morris F.L.S. Drawn and etched by William Clark.
