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Edward Lear’s Eclogue and the symbolism of Orange and Lemon Trees

Edward Lear’s Eclogue and the symbolism of Orange and Lemon Trees

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 …

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Free botanical icon sets

Free botanical icon sets

IAN symbol libraries currently contain 3042 custom made vector symbols for science communication, including eight flora themed albums. Each free botanical icon set can be downloaded as an individual file or on palettes as shown below. You can use them cost and royalty free for any use, with attribution to the University of Maryland Center …

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pear drawing

The florist and pomologist

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 …

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Free Medicinal plant illustrations

115 free vintage medicinal plant illustrations

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 …

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Botanical art cacti

Old cacti keep the wow factor

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. …

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Free Dahlias

Free Dahlias

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.

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Free artworks from 80 plant families

Free artworks from 80 plant families

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 …

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Medicinal Botanical Plants

88 free vintage medicinal plant illlustrations

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. While the book was written by Kohler, the pictures were drawn by artists L. Müeller and C.F. Schmidt. They were …

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Palm trees on old book cover.

British Library plant covers

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.

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Edward Lear Nonsense botany

Edward Lear’s clever Nonsense Botany

Edward Lear (1812-1888) had his own take on the Linnean system of binomial nomenclature, using it to create nonsense plant names to label nonsense plant illustrations. All of which are enduring, humorous triumphs. Today, we have well defined botanical rules when naming plant species, the foundations of which were laid by Swedish natural scientist Carl …

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