Flower pictures from 1885. I guess you can tell I’m tired of winter. Imagery from the January 1885 issue of “L’Illustration horticole : journal spécial des serres et des jardins…”
Tag: Flowers
Off to go shopping around the roses at the Floral Gala at John Martin’s Department Store. 1937 images. John Martin’s was an iconic store in Adelaide, South Australia from the day it opened in 1866.
18th century flower pictures taken from Pierre Bulliard’s 1779 “Flora Parisiensis ou Description et figures des plantes qui croissent aux environs de Paris,” Living from 1752 to 1793, Bulliard was a botanist and illustrator along with being a doctor.
Old water lilies as pretty as ever and all arted up. Plates from John Fisk Allen’s 1854 work “Victoria Regia; or the Great Water Lily of America”. William Sharp, illustrator. Published and printed in Boston by Dutton and Wentworth.
More tropical plants, these taken from Christoph Jacob Trew and Georg Dionysius Ehret’s “Plantae Selectae quarum imagines ad exemplaria naturalia Londini in hortus curiosorum”, published in Nuremberg, Germany. These being from the first edition so ca. 1750. Taken from a recent Sotheby’s catalog. All are part of the same lot.
Chromolithographs of orchids, plates from various works in the series “Lindenia”, published by Belgian horticulturalist and explorer Jean Linden who was the scientific director of the Royal Society of Zoology and Horticulture in Brussels. He also traveled to Central America and saw orchids growing wild. From the same lot and folio, these are all up for bid at Sotheby’s.
19th century orchids, painted by American artist Charles Storer. Living from 1817 to 1907, he also painted landscapes and still-lifes.
Orchids from Nature. 1902. American. Oil on canvas. Charles Storer, artist (1917-1907). Signed and dated Chas. Storer/1902 on the lower right. Signed and dated ORCHIDS, painted /from nature by/Charles Storer,/1902. on the reverse, identified on a label from The Boston Art Club affixed to the frame backing. Image © 1999 – 2022Bonhams SKINNER, INC, Fai use license. via https://www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/4110M/lots/39
Fruit and flowers from a 1930 seed catalogue from J. V. Bailey Nurseries, Dayton Bluff Station, Saint Paul, Minnesota. Collections of the United States Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Flowers of Switzerland. Pressed alpine flowers from an album created by Michael Caviezel who was a teacher and forest warden at Pontresina in the Engadine Valley of Switzerland. All of these taken from the same lot which is up for sale from Michael Laird Rare Books and Manuscripts.
Thinking I met Michael Laird at the antiquarian fair here that I think was in the fall of 2019. Before COVID, anyway. Maybe not.
Never enough flower pictures. Six large botanical studies of flowers done in Calcutta (Kolkata), India. ca. 1800-1805, by Indian artists trained in the Mughal tradition.
