Flowers from just a little bit back. 16th century. Flemish. Engravings, plates from Adriaan Collaert’s work “Florilegium.” Collaert lived from around 1560 to 1618 and was from a family filled with printmakers.
Category: Botanical print
Orchids, chromolithographic plates from Frederick Boyle’s 1901 work “The Woodlands Orchids” which was published in London. J. L. MacFarlane, lithographer.
Images from the “Erbario”, an herbal created in northern Italy. Begun in the early 15th century, there are over 70 spread over 100 folios. Collections of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts University of Pennsylvania. via publicdomainreview.org
See more here https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/erbario-15th-century-herbal where they also have a link to look at all of them in the University of Pennsylvania digital archives
Summer wildflowers for a late May day. Plates from “Harper’s Guide to Wild Flowers” by Caroline Alathea Stickney Creevey. Published in New York in 1912.
More flowers, plates from Francisco Manuel Blanco’s “Flora de Filipinas” which was published in Manila in the early 1880s. From the digital archives of the The Royal Botanical Garden, Madrid.
More pretty flowers. These from 1855, taken from “Flora of the Colosseum of Rome.” Written by Richard Deakin MD, it was published in London by Groombridge and Sons.
Botanical collages made from paper. English. Unsigned with various ink labels on the reverse. But pretty.
Images of birds, plates from “The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle during the years 1832-1836” which was written by Charles Darwin and published in London in 1838. The final artwork by various artist naturalists. Thinking that Darwin could draw but not like that.
Plates of flowers that are half way between botanical prints and pochoir prints which came along a little later. From Anton Seder’s “Die Pflanze in Kunst und Gewerbe” which was published in Vienna in around 1886 by Martin Gerlach. These from Volume I of 2.
Flowers of the American West. A selection of plates from the 1915 “Field book of western wild flowers” which was written by Margaret Armstrong in collaboration with John James Thornber who was a professor of botany in Arizona.
