Beautiful old botanical paintings of cacti today from the book: “Iconographie descriptive des cactees, ou, Essais systematiques et raisonnes sur l’histoire naturelle, la classification et la culture des plantes de cette famille“. Which translates (roughly) to: Featured iconography cacti, or systematic and reasoned essays on natural history, classification and cultivation of plants in this family. …
So many free vintage botanical prints via the Biodiversity Heritage Library. It’s just a case of finding the good stuff. Below we uncovered eight well bred Dahlias that are free to use for whatever retro styling you please.
Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants with Groups and Descriptions Volume 1 by Elizabeth Twining (1805-1889) was published in London in 1868 by Sampson Low, Son, and Marston. These images are now in the Public Domain. Elizabeth Twinning was part of the eponymously named tea family. Rich, educated and well-connected she reportedly spent her …
Franz Eugen Köhler’s Medizinal-Pflanzen or Medicinal Plants was published in 1887 in Germany. It comes in four volumes and includes over 300 detailed, beautiful, botanical illustrations of plants. Below we supply 88 from Volume 1. The book was written by Kohler but the pictures were drawn by artists L. Müeller and C.F. Schmidt. They were …
Plant inspired book covers from the British Library’s dusty archives. Age denotes all works are now in the Public Domain. For more, see their Flickr photostream.
Formal gardens are nice, but never can they equal, much less rival, Nature’s wild gardens. Nothing person-made comes close to being as gracious and triumphant as an alpine meadow in flower. Public domain artworks from Alpine flowers and gardens, painted and described by G. Flemwell (published London, A. & C. Black, 1910) express these sentiments …
The following Public Domain artworks are from the book Familiar Indian Flowers by Lena Lowis published by Thacker and Co., Bombay, 1878. While they may have been familiar flowers in India at this time to British colonialists, not all are natives e.g Poinsettia. Those with ‘indica‘ as the species epithet (the second part of the latin name) …
Last Friday was the 1869 collection of illustrations from The Florist And Pomologist: A Pictorial Monthly Magazine Of Flowers, Fruits, And General Horticulture, today we give you more free botanical art from the 1873 collection. Published by the Journal of Horticulture, London and digitised by the Biodiversity Heritage Library, these works are in the Public Domain. We include 14 intensely coloured …
Free botanical art from The Florist And Pomologist: A Pictorial Monthly Magazine Of Flowers, Fruits, And General Horticulture, published by the Journal of Horticulture, London in 1869. Now in the Public Domain it has been digitised for us by the wonderful Biodiversity Heritage Library. This collection includes 12 intensely coloured plates with plant names and other …
The following are a selection of beautiful plant-inspired shots that you can use in any way you want. All have been placed online under the Creative Commons Zero licence CC Zero, meaning all rights are waived by contributors. For artists, submitting photographs to respected curated free image sites offer one route to free publicity. Users do not have …