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Our hand finished botanical art prints are inspired by vintage botanical illustrations from the period 1600 to 1920.
Botanical art started with the crude cave drawings of stone age man, and evolved to its greatest level by the end of the 1800s, after which photography took over.
The main aim of botanical art was to accurately show plants and flowers in all their glory. The reasons for making accurate botanical art were often very practical, for example to illustrate newly discovered plants and edible and medicinal plants, and to test the skill of a still life painter. Many flower growing businesses in the 1800s employed excellent artists to illustrate their flowers to help sell them to customers throughout Europe.
Fine art print.Features American Maidenhair Fern (Adiantum pedatum) magnified 8x. The plant reveals unfurling spirals like watch-springs.Based on an antique photogravure by Karl Blossfeldt from the early 1900s.Blossfeldt's photogravures reveal beautiful hidden art forms in nature. He made them with ..
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Fine art print.Features a beautiful blue lotus flower or water lily (Nymphaea thermalis). The Blue Lotus flower is often shown in Egyptian art in connection with party scenes, dancing and magical rites. In modern culture, blue lotus flowers are used to make blue lotus tea, wine and martinis. Recent ..
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Fine art print.Features a blue water lily (Nympheaa gigantea), native to Australia and New Guinea. Its leaves grow up to 75 cm in diameter, and the large flowers are blue-white.Based on a lithograph made in the mid 1800s by Louis van Houtte., which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Features a butterfly blue plant (Scabiosa columbaria) flower magnified 10x.Based on an antique photogravure by Karl Blossfeldt from the early 1900s.Blossfeldt's photogravures reveal beautiful hidden art forms in nature. He made them with his special magnifying camera...
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Fine art print.Features a Monk's Hood plant (Aconitum) magnified 6x. The plant resembles a woman. Based on an antique photogravure by Karl Blossfeldt from the early 1900s.Blossfeldt's photogravures reveal beautiful hidden art forms in nature. He made them with his special magnifying camera...
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Fine art print.Features tropical fruits pawpaw, soursop, peach and brazil nuts.Based on a botanical illustration of the 1850s from The Vegetable Kingdom by William Rhind, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Features a plume poppy magnified 5x (Macleya cordata).Based on an antique photogravure by Karl Blossfeldt from the early 1900s.Blossfeldt's photogravures reveal beautiful hidden art forms in nature. He made them with his special magnifying camera...
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Fine art print.Features Queen Anne's Thistle magnified 4x (Cirsium canum). It has a sort of human form!Based on an antique photogravure by Karl Blossfeldt from the early 1900s.Blossfeldt's photogravures reveal beautiful hidden art forms in nature. He made them with his special magnifying camera...
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Fine art print.Features a queen pineapple. Did you know a pineapple is a type of bromeliad ?The queen pine is mainly grown in Australia, India, the Phillipines and HawaiiBased on a lithograph from the 1850s by William Mackenzie, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Features St.Catherine's Polypody Fern (Polypodium catharinae) from Brazil.Based on a beautiful antique lithograph made in the 1850s by Edward Lowe, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Based on a beautiful antique engraving made in 1776 by John Evelyn, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Features black Madresfield Court grapes. Madresfield Court is a stately home in England, in the village of Madresfield near Malvern in Worcestershire. Based on a lithograph from the 1850s by William Mackenzie, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Features Painted Banana (Musa vittata).Based on a beautiful antique lithograph made in the 1850s by Shirley Hibberd, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Features Denniston's Superb, Seedling and March's Seedling plums.Based on a hand coloured engraving from the mid-1800s by Ebenezer Emmons, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Features Splendid Butterfly Orchid from Colombia, Venezuela and Peru (Oncidium papilio var. Echkardti).Based on a botanical illustration of the late 1800s from L’illustration Horticole by Jean Linden, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Features The Wonderful Caladium (Caladium mirabile) from Brazil.Based on a beautiful antique lithograph made in the 1850s by Shirley Hibberd, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Features avocado Persea gratissima fruit, flowers and leaves. The avocado tree has a long history of cultivation in Central and South America. The oldest evidence of avocado use was found in a cave located in Coxcatlán, Puebla, Mexico, that dates to around 10,000 BC. It is now grown a..
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Fine art print.Features clematis flowers.Based on a lithograph from the 1890s by John Wright, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Features Palmyra palm trees in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). The Palmyra palm is also known as a Sugar palm for the sweet sap it contains.Based on a lithograph made in 1800s by Ernst Heyn, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Features passion flower and lapageria flower.Based on a lithograph from the 1890s by John Wright, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Based on a beautiful antique engraving made in 1776 by John Evelyn, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Features a Camellia Carlotta Papudoff.Based on a lithograph from the 1860s by Robert Hogg, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Features Frogmore Late Pine Strawberry.Based on a lithograph from the 1860s by Robert Hogg, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Features a General Jacqueminot rose.This rose is a deep, brilliant red and has soft velvety leaves.Based on a botanical illustration from the 1890s by Edward Step, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Based on vintage fern art by James Britten from the 1880s, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Features azalea, lilac and rhododendron flowers.Based on a lithograph from the 1890s by John Wright, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Features Blue Bollea Orchid (Bollea coelestis) from Colombia and Ecuador.Based on a botanical illustration of the mid 1800s by Sir Joseph Paxton, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Features a cannabis plant. Cannabis has long been used for fibre (hemp), for seed and seed oils, for medicinal purposes, and as a recreational drug.Based on botanical art from the 1860s by Charlotte Yonge, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Based on a nature printed seaweed from the 1850s by Henry Bradbury, which we have carefully restored and enhanced.Nature printed images are amazingly life like, capturing the fine detail of each seaweed...
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Fine art print.Features Maiden's Blush apples.Based on a hand coloured engraving from the mid-1800s by Ebenezer Emmons, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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