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This page represents most of our collection of original Antique prints of Flowers, Plants and Trees grouped by date. Please click on an image to see it in high-resolution, with details of the work itself.  For enquiries and purchases, please do contact us.

16th, 17th and 18th century

Sophora (Sun King): With detail of the flower and key in Latin. Title heightened in gold.

Scolymocephalus (Thistle sugarbush): Two varieties.

Varieties: Tulips. After the renowned botanical artist Jan van Huysum

Palm: Date Palm Phoenix dactylifera: Men harvesting the fruit. With text in French.

Maple Branch with red flowers (Erable) and American Potato bean (Apios).

Fern from Plaisance Bay and American Cypress branch.

Trillium Erectum (Solanium) and Solidago (Grande de Consolide).

Verbascum (Mullein): With detail of the flower and key in Latin. Title heightened in gold.

Marigold: Glittering Fig Marigold. Mesembryanthemum micans

Lycium (Boxthorn): With detail of flower and key in Latin. Title heightened in gold.

Flowering Plants: Two varieties from New Guinea and eight from Australia (New Holland)

Scordium (Germander): Scorodomia seu salvia agrestis, scorzonera crcisi, humilior angustifolia, floribus luteis altera, folis nervosis.

Lysimachia Bulbifera: Bulb-Bearing Loosestrife.

Flowering Plants: Four varieties from Australia (New Holland) and four from Brazil.

Summer savory with flower, calix and seed.

The Superb Lily, also known as the Turk’s Cap, set in a romanticised mountainous landscape alluding to its North American origins.

Justicia Peruviana.

Aloe: Agave or American Aloe. Aloes are natives of the Old World whilst agaves are from the New. Thornton subsequently corrected his mistake.

Chelone (Turtlehead plant): With detail of flower and key in Latin. Title heightened in gold.

American Panax (Ginseng) and Soloman’s Seal (Polygonatume).

Cotton plants: Two types, Jack-fruit and Li Chi.

Gentiana Acaulis: Large flowered Gentianella.

Varieties: Pendulous, Italian Piladelphius, Lady Smock, Pulmonaria, Cytisus and Dwarf Peony.

Varieties: Anemone, Star of Bethlehem, Double Anemone, Painted Amethystine Tulip, Asphodell and Oriental hyacinth.

Tsi Shu (Japanese Varnish) Tree, Betel Vine, and Chinese cabbage (Fuling): With Tea and Rhubarb.

Varieties: Hermerocallis, Campion, Hlyrian, Ornithagalum, and Hellebore.

With Water Tupelo (Nyssa aquatica) branch.

Calceolaria Fothergill.

Mullein: Great Mullein. Verbascum Thapsus

La Triomphe, Louis XVI, Duchess of Devonshire, General Washington, Earl Spencer, La Majestieuse and Gloria Mundi.

Linum Flavium: Yellow Flax.

Plantago (Fleawort): Plantago latifolia rosea, quinquenervia major and minor, angustifolia alpina, polium montanum, and poium montanum lavendula.

Cowslip: Common Cowslip. Primula ver

Ranunculus, Black Thorn, Columbine, White bells and a Spotted red and white underwing Moth.

Varieties: Embroidered Tulip, Crimson Daphne and Mezereon, Dusky Fritillary and Black Hellebore.

Flos Cardinalis.

Varieties: Violet, Anonis, Aster, Apocynum, Dracophalum, and Heliotrope.

Double China Aster, Double Crimson Hollyhock, Spotted Phlox, Single Violet Stock July Flower, Double variegated Stock July Flower, Trilobate Lavatera, and Giant Lupine.

Flowering Sensitive Plant: Set within an Indian landscape with hummingbirds and an admirer in the foreground.

Anthoxanthum adoratum with segment showing the petals, calyx and seed.

Caryphyllius pleno, 3 variations and Caryphyllius dimidia

Pelargonium: Scarlet Geranium: Geranium inquinans.

Sweet Briar Rose, rosa englanteria and Wild Rose Moth, phalaena lacertenaria.

Petiveria (Pigeonberry): With detail of the flower and key in Latin. Title heightened in gold.

Purple and White Valerian.

Red Ranunculus, ranunculus asiaticus and White Thorn or Hawthorn, crataegus oxyacantha with Bluebells and a Brimstone Moth, phalena crataegate.

Ledum (Kalmia): Two flowering branches with detail of flower and key in Latin. Title heightened in gold.

Kniphofia: Red Hot Poker. Aletris uvaria

Persian Iris, iris persica and Wild Arrach, astriplex hatata with a Sword grass Moth, phalaena lucae.

Miirabilis: Marvel of Peru. Mirabilis Jalappa

Cocunut Tree and Cocos: With Orange (Tranja), Carandas Plum and Star fruit (Carambolus) trees and fruit.

Primula Acaulis: Double Lilac Primrose.

19th Century 1800-1840

Iris: German, varicoloured and variegated Irises.

Tankerville’s or China Limodorum set in a romanticised English landscape alluding to Lady Tankerville, a well known collector of exotic plants,

Four details of the husk, shell, and coconut fruit. Engraved by John Pass.

Helianthemum Tuberaria, Plantain-leaved Sun-Rose.

Giant-flowered dendrobium. Dendrobium formosum.

The Blue Passion Flower climbing a pillar. Native to Peru and Brazil, it was introduced to Europe in 1699 where it took to cooler climes.

Tulips: La Triomphe, Louis XVI, Duchess of Devonshire, General Washington, Earl Spencer, La Majestieuse, and Gloria Mundi, all set in a romanticised Dutch landscape complete with windmill.

Norway Spruce Fir tree branch with cones. Engraved by John Pass.

Golden Shot Wallflower. Erysimum Perofskianum.

Flora Dispensing Her Favours on the Earth. 1812

The Sacred Egyptian Bean (Lotus). Revered as the Sacred Lotus of the East, it no longer grows in Egypt.

Cruciferae: Heliophila, Enarthrocarpus, Brachycarpea with the parts of their flowers.

Royal Rose. Rosa Gallica Regalis.

Caryophylleae: Dianthus. Eight varieties.

American Aloe or Agave set in a landscape.

Bridge Rose. Rosa Gallica Pontiana

Dahlia: Purple and yellow Dahlias.

Indian Reed: Set in a romanticised landscape on the Ganges with a pagoda. This plate is usually found with additional spikes in hand colouring to ‘plump’ the flower.

The Nodding Remealmia native to China & Japan. With delicate drops of dew falling from its petals.

Coffee: Branch of the Arabian coffee tree with fruit, blossoms and detail of the bean. By the engraver John Pass.

Venus Fly Trap (Dionaea Muscipula): After Paulo Majioli, and engraved by John Pass.

Bush Rose. Rosa Vantenatiana.

Bird of Paradise and Cobweb Houseleek: Strelezia Reginae and Sempervivum arachnoideum.

Peach House. 1. Ground plan 2. transverse section of the underground works 3. upper section.

Pentaphylloides floribunda.

Mammoth Aloe in the Hills.

Helianthemum serpyllifolium, Serpyllum-leaved Sun-Rose.

Chinese Water Lily and Trailing Bell Flower: Nelumbium speciosum and Nolana prostrata.

Queen Flower: Bird of Paradise in an African landscape.

Queen Flower (Bird of Paradise). Set in a romanticized landscape. Native to South Africa, it was brought to the Royal Botanic Gardens in the 1780s.

Cruciferae: Parrya L. exscapa, Stevenia and Notoveras with the parts of their flowers.

Curious American Bog Plants. Fly Oprys, Venus Fly Trap, Bee Orphys, Yellow side-saddle, Tutsan-leaved Dog’s bone and Stinking pothos.

The Blue Passion Flower climbing a classical column.

Pomponia Rose. Rosa pomponia.

Caryophylleae: Dianthus. Six varieties.

Helianthemum formosum, Beautiful Sun-Rose.

Dalmatian Toadflax. By Miss Drake.

Branch of the tree. Engraved by John Pass.

Stapelias Succulent: Dewy, Hirsute and Bell-shaped Stapelias with snakes and a lizard set in an African landscape with an erupting volcano.

Crown Imperial Lily and Hollow-root Snapdragon: Fruitillaria imperialis and Fumaria cava.

Musk mallow. By Miss Drake.

Blush Noisette Rose. Rosa Noisettiana

Yellow Sulfur Rose. Rosa sulfura.

Cowslip and White Dittany: Dodecotheon Medea and Dictamnus albus.

The Superb Lily, also known as the Turk’s Cap, set in a romanticised North American landscape.

Training and Grafting. 1. One year pruned 2. Second year 3. Third year trained 4. Cleft Grafting 5. Mixed Grafting 6. Extreme grafting.

Forcig Frame and Grapery. 1,2. angles of altitude and elevation of roof 3, 4 .Forcing Frames 5. grapery in Barnstaple 6. grapery back wall.

Rosenberg Rose. Rosa Rosenbergiana.

With the mode of extracting Turpentine. Engraved by John Pass.

Bengal Carnation Rose. Rosa Indica Caryophyllea.

Cistus minspeliensis, Montpelier Rock-Rose.

White Lily with yellow margined leaves and classical temple alluding to it being cherised by the Ancient Greeks and later the Romans.

Greenhouse, circular conservatory and common conservatory.

The Snowdro with yellow and purple crocuses set in a wintry English landscape.

Carnations: Flakes, Bizarres, and Piquettes. almer’s Defiance, Davy’s Defiance, Duchess of Dorset, Duchess of Wurtemberg, British Monarch, Prince of Wales. Set in a romanticised landscape with Norman ruins.

The Snowdrop with crocuses in a wintery English landscape.

Balsam: Flowering branch with fruit of the Rose coloured Balsam. Engraved by John Pass.

Magnolia: Blooming branch of the laurel leaved Tulip tree. Engraved by John Pass.

Branch with fruit. Engraved by John Pass.

The Nodding Remealmia. Native to China and Japan.

By Miss Drake.

Damask Rose. Rosa Damascena.

Chinese oak with its frutifications. Engraved by John Pass.

Flora, Zephyrus, and their daughter Carpo examining the Night-Blooming Cereus.

Mammoth Bamboo in a woodland.

Pineapple House (Pinery). 1. Ground plan 2. longitudinal section with young plants 3. transverse section 4. mason work 5. carron register 6. transverse section of

Cistus Cymosus, Cyme-flowered Rock Rose.

19th Century 1840-1875 

After Walter Hood Fitch.

1. Pictee Emmeline 2. Picotee Princess Frederick, 3. Bijon de Clement carnation 4. Prince de Nassau carnation

Segments of Bactris Brongniartii, Bactris faucium, Martinezia truncata and Diplothemium Toralli. d’Orbigny reached South America 5 years before his rival Charles Darwin, cataloguing over 10,000 species in 8 years.

Chrysanthemum Indicum. 1. Early Crimson 2. Quilled Orange 3. Quilled White

Cocunut Tree (Cocos nucifero). With a European House in Tahiti.

Capt. Champion’s Rhoddeia. After Walter Hood Fitch.

Debrobium nobile and Thyrsacanthus Schomburgkianus. After Augusta Withers.

After Walter Hood Fitch.

Vanda tricolor var., Vanda tricolor formosa, Vanda insignis Helveola and Mitonia spectabilis. After Augusta Withers.

Palms (Attalea). Martinezia truncata, Euterpe andicola and Euterpe Haenkeana with Guaranins hunting with bow and arrow.

1. Common purple Rudbeckle 2. Various leaved Echinacea 3 . Dickon’s Echinacea 4. Late flowering Purple Rudbeckle.

Single Early Tulip. Yellow Prince with variegated foliage.

Round-headed mealy primrose. After Walter Hood Fitch.

Lapageria rosea and Weigela rosea. After Augusta Withers.

Dianthus heddewigh.

Adonis, Dinae and Archimede.

Augustina superba and Caryophylloides. After Augusta Withers.

Hemiandra pungens, Gompholobium splendens and Grevillia elegans. After Augusta Withers.

Cortusa-leaved buttercup. After Walter Hood Fitch.

1. Chalcedonian 2. Florentine 3. Nepal 4. Three toothed 5. Spring.

Fritillaria meleagris.

Pinus Contorta.

1. Variable 2. Sir Robert Peel 3. Harris’s Inimitable 4. Levic’s Incomparable.

Palm Tree of the Great Andaman Islands.

Pinus Ponderosa.

La Gitana, Trophée, François and Fleurette. After Augusta Withers.

Hothouse flowers, Allamanda Schottii and Stephanotis floribunda. After Augusta Withers.

Juniperus Occidentalis.

Milk, Bird’s, Shoe and Joint Vetch, and Saint Foin.

Segments of Chamaedorea lanccolata, Chamaedorea conocarpa and Morenia fragrens. d’Orbigny reached South America 5 years before his rival Charles Darwin, cataloguing over 10,000 species in 8 years.

Abies Williamsonii.

1. Mr Barlow’s 2. Muntain 3. Variable Bee 4. Mr Menzies’s 5. Azure.

Segments of Astrocaryum Huaimi, Cocos Yatai, Cocos Australis and Cocos botryophora. d’Orbigny reached South America 5 years before his rival Charles Darwin, cataloguing over 10,000 species in 8 years.

Rhododendron Nuttali. Large White Rhododendron from Assam.

Double Narcissus. Sulphur Kroon Silver Phoenix.

After Walter Hood Fitch.

Blood-Coloured Tacsonia. After Walter Hood Fitch.

1. Edulis Superba 2. Common Garden 3. Fine leaved 4 .Hybrid 5. Russ’s Crimson

Lillium Chalcedonicum.

Scaly Rhododendron. Small purple flowers. After Walter Hood Fitch.

Ixia Hybrid. African cornflower in a bunch.

Polyanthus Narcissus.

Five varieties.

Madame Henry Jacotot petunia and Salvia tricolor.

1. Oriental 2. Alpine 3. Orange Red 4. Common Welsh 5. Large-flowered Prickly 6. Canadian Bloodroot 7. Cordate-leaved Macleaya

Sparaxis Tricolour. After Arentine H. Arendsen.

Segments of Guilelmia insignis, Acrocomia Totai and Astrocarym Chonta. d’Orbigny reached South America 5 years before his rival Charles Darwin, cataloguing over 10,000 species in 8 years.

LLilium lancifolium album and Lilium lancifolium roseum. After Augusta Withers.

After Walter Hood Fitch.

19th Century After 1875 to Early 20th Century 

Gloxinia Speciosa Varieties. Chiswick White.

Odontoglossum Alexandrae (Crispum). Curled odontoglossum.

Odontoglossum phalaenopsis.

Gladiolus gandavensis var brenchleyensis.

Cattleya eldorado. White oweni and pink lindeni varieties.

Filicinae: Ferns. Alsophila, Polypodium, Asplenium, Angiopteris, Monogramma, Pteris. Key available.

Nepalese Lily. After Henry Moon.

Narcissus bicolour and Narcissus bicolour var Horsfeldi.

Standard van Boskoop. Hybrid developed by the Koster nurseries.

Odontoglossum alexandro crispum.

Dahlia gracilis. Gracilis superba, cuprea and lutea.

Celine Forestier, Monsieur Boncenne and La France.

Hybrid variety.

Madame van Houtte, Lady Bovill and Jackmani.

Alfred K. Williams.

Lilium oxypetalum and Lilium Nipalense.

Lilium superbum.

Lilium chalcedonicum.

Cactus Dahlia Yuarezi.

Didier’s Tulip. Tulip gesneriana.

Lilium Duchartrei. Marbled Martagon Lily.

Lilium Giganteum.

Lilium humboldti.