In itself an inspiration from the natural forms of plants and flowers, with their flowing lines and their exquisite curves, Art Nouveau is manifested in this beautiful depiction of peonies by Alphonse Mucha (1860 – 1939). Delicate and luminous, the medium is watercolours for a printed fabric. The lines in the blooms provide …
In his Eclogue (Composed at Cannes in December 9th, 1867), Edward Lear wrote of visions of happiness and travel that he experienced when he saw the orange and lemon trees and how the unexpected weather diminished the happiness experienced there: So, despite the depression of the weather, the writer of nonsense associated the lemon and …
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 …
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 115 from Volume 2. See previous post for Volume 1 and associated book and source details. The age of this book is over 75 …
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.
If you are in need of a quick run through of the state flowers of America then philately will get you everywhere. What nicer way to learn than by exploring the beautiful postal stamps below. You might even discover the state birds along the way. Philately is the study and collection of postage stamps and …
More Public Domain artwork, this time from the book ‘A monograph of Odontoglossum’ by James Bateman. Published in 1874 by L. Reeve & co., London. Checking the current standing of the species names via the Catalogue of Life and The Plant List, it looks as if all the species illustrated below have been reclassified into …
Not all plants this time! The final Volume of Franz Eugen Köhler’s Medizinal-Pflanzen or Medicinal Plants published in 1887 features red algae and fungi too. But the nature lovers that we are, we have left them in. See previous posts for Volume 1, Volume 2 and Volume 3 with associated book and source details. The …
Artwork from Volume 3 of Franz Eugen Köhler’s Medizinal-Pflanzen or Medicinal Plants published in 1887. See previous posts for Volume 1 and Volume 2 with associated book and source details. The age of this book is over 75 years which in Europe denotes it is the Public Domain making all images copyright free. The species …