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Exquisitely delicate flowers. Botanical plates, taken from by Frances Sargent Osgood’s 1860 book “The Poetry of Flowers.”
Tag: Flowers
Fields of flowers to hang on your wall. A bed of roses to love in the depths of winter. Dutch. Jacobus van Looy, artist (1855–1930).
Flowers of the month from when the 18th century was settling in. Hand-colored engravings from Robert Furber’s 1730 “Twelve Months of Flowers” made from paintings by Pieter Casteels. Also wrote the first seed catalog produced in England.
A little plumeria with other things tossed in. More tropical flowers from my Thai photographer friend Somphong Sukhopol. All photographs courtesy of the photographer.
Flowers in Cuba from a long time ago. From American Nancy Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft’s “Specimens of the Plants and Fruits of the Island of Cuba”. Gone since 1828 she has left a glorious treasury for us to see. Digitized and made available for download at the HathiTrust digital library, by way of Cornell University’s Library Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.
Butterfly art to make your living room look like an endless summer. From German naturalist and scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian. (1647-1717).
Another pretty orchid from my Thai photographer friend Somphong Sukhopol. Image courtesy of the photographer.
