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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
More botanical artwork, these of an Australian kind. Done by Austrian artist Ferdinand Bauer who accompanied Matthew Flinders on his 1801 expedition to the Antipodes.
Botanical pictures with more than a whiff of a lei and a tropical sea. Taken from Mrs. Francis Sinclair’s “Indigenous flowers of the Hawaiian islands” which was published in London in 1885.
Watercolors of Canadian wildflowers. Agnes Chamberlin, artist (1833-1913).
Exquisitely delicate flowers. Botanical plates, taken from by Frances Sargent Osgood’s 1860 book “The Poetry of Flowers.”
More flowers but botanical plates this time. Emma C. Embury’s 1845 book “American wildflowers in their native haunts.”
Engravings of flowers from a couple centuries back. English. Robert John Thornton, botanist. Living from 1768 to 1837 he started out to be a physician but ended up publishing books about plants.
