Flowers, Plants and Trees

 

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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

Summer savory with flower, calix and seed.
Purple and White Valerian.
Varieties: Hermerocallis, Campion, Hlyrian, Ornithagalum, and Hellebore.
Cowslip: Common Cowslip. Primula ver
Maple Branch with red flowers (Erable) and American Potato bean (Apios).
Varieties: Martagon, Columbine, Jonquil, Irises and Narcissus.
Marigold: Glittering Fig Marigold. Mesembryanthemum micans
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.
Lysimachia Bulbifera: Bulb-Bearing Loosestrife.
The Superb Lily, also known as the Turk’s Cap, set in a romanticised mountainous landscape alluding to its North American origins.
Melanthium (Bunchflower): With detail of flower and key in Latin. Title heightened in gold.
Mullein: Great Mullein. Verbascum Thapsus
Varieties: Violet, Anonis, Aster, Apocynum, Dracophalum, and Heliotrope.
Fern from Plaisance Bay and American Cypress branch.
Flos Cardinalis.
Pelargonium: Scarlet Geranium: Geranium inquinans.
Begonia Canada and Privet branch with purple berries (Troene).
Ranunculus, Black Thorn, Columbine, White bells and a Spotted red and white underwing Moth.
Calceolaria Fothergill.
Dwarf Evergreen Phaseolus, Green Flowered Squill, Willow leaved Shrub Asclepias, Corymbous lobated Spirea, Purple Athiopiuan Amaryllis, and Prickly Osteospermum.
Sophora (Sun King): With detail of the flower and key in Latin. Title heightened in gold.
Miirabilis: Marvel of Peru. Mirabilis Jalappa
Varieties: Snowdrops, Asclepias, Hyacinth, Crocuses and Hepatica.
Varieties: Roses. Sunflower, Carnations and Poppies.
La Triomphe, Louis XVI, Duchess of Devonshire, General Washington, Earl Spencer, La Majestieuse and Gloria Mundi.
Justicia Peruviana.
Tsi Shu (Japanese Varnish) Tree, Betel Vine, and Chinese cabbage (Fuling): With Tea and Rhubarb.
Red Ranunculus, ranunculus asiaticus and White Thorn or Hawthorn, crataegus oxyacantha with Bluebells and a Brimstone Moth, phalena crataegate.
Flowering Sensitive Plant: Set within an Indian landscape with hummingbirds and an admirer in the foreground.
Double China Aster, Double Crimson Hollyhock, Spotted Phlox, Single Violet Stock July Flower, Double variegated Stock July Flower, Trilobate Lavatera, and Giant Lupine.
With Water Tupelo (Nyssa aquatica) branch.
Kniphofia: Red Hot Poker. Aletris uvaria
Aloe: Agave or American Aloe. Aloes are natives of the Old World whilst agaves are from the New. Thornton subsequently corrected his mistake.
Anthoxanthum adoratum with segment showing the petals, calyx and seed.
Verbascum (Mullein): With detail of the flower and key in Latin. Title heightened in gold.
Trillium Erectum (Solanium) and Solidago (Grande de Consolide).
American Panax (Ginseng) and Soloman’s Seal (Polygonatume).
Caryphyllius pleno, 3 variations and Caryphyllius dimidia
Lycium (Boxthorn): With detail of flower and key in Latin. Title heightened in gold.
Persian Iris, iris persica and Wild Arrach, astriplex hatata with a Sword grass Moth, phalaena lucae.
Cotton plants: Two types, Jack-fruit and Li Chi.
Varieties: Tulips. After the renowned botanical artist Jan van Huysum
Palm: Date Palm Phoenix dactylifera: Men harvesting the fruit. With text in French.
Chelone (Turtlehead plant): With detail of flower and key in Latin. Title heightened in gold.
Ledum (Kalmia): Two flowering branches with detail of flower and key in Latin. Title heightened in gold.
Indigofera (Indigo): With detail of flower and key in Latin. Title heightened in gold.

 

19th Century 1800-1840

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.
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
Flora Dispensing Her Favours on the Earth. 1812
Blush Noisette Rose. Rosa Noisettiana
Royal Rose. Rosa Gallica Regalis.
Pomponia Rose. Rosa pomponia.
Peach House. 1. Ground plan 2. transverse section of the underground works 3. upper section.
Bridge Rose. Rosa Gallica Pontiana
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.
Coffee: Branch of the Arabian coffee tree with fruit, blossoms and detail of the bean. By the engraver John Pass.
Bird of Paradise and Cobweb Houseleek: Strelezia Reginae and Sempervivum arachnoideum.
With the mode of extracting Turpentine. Engraved by John Pass.
Branch with fruit. Engraved by John Pass.
Damask Rose. Rosa Damascena.
Rosenberg Rose. Rosa Rosenbergiana.
Balsam: Flowering branch with fruit of the Rose coloured Balsam. Engraved by John Pass.
The Nodding Remealmia. Native to China and Japan.
The Nodding Remealmia native to China & Japan. With delicate drops of dew falling from its petals.
Four details of the husk, shell, and coconut fruit. Engraved by John Pass.
The Snowdrop with crocuses in a wintery English landscape.
Cistus minspeliensis, Montpelier Rock-Rose.
Flora, Zephyrus, and their daughter Carpo examining the Night-Blooming Cereus.
Cistus Cymosus, Cyme-flowered Rock Rose.
Helianthemum umbellatum, Umbel-flowered Sun Rose.
Bengal Carnation Rose. Rosa Indica Caryophyllea.
Venus Fly Trap (Dionaea Muscipula): After Paulo Majioli, and engraved by John Pass.
Dalmatian Toadflax. By Miss Drake.
Norway Spruce Fir tree branch with cones. Engraved by John Pass.
Helianthemum serpyllifolium, Serpyllum-leaved Sun-Rose.
Mammoth Bamboo in a woodland.
The Sacred Egyptian Bean (Lotus). Revered as the Sacred Lotus of the East, it no longer grows in Egypt.
The Snowdro with yellow and purple crocuses set in a wintry English landscape.
Crown Imperial Lily and Hollow-root Snapdragon: Fruitillaria imperialis and Fumaria cava.
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.
Dahlia: Purple and yellow Dahlias.
Stapelias Succulent: Dewy, Hirsute and Bell-shaped Stapelias with snakes and a lizard set in an African landscape with an erupting volcano.
Chinese oak with its frutifications. Engraved by John Pass.
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.
The Blue Egyptian Water Lily set in a romanticised landscape with Aboukir and the Nile, alluding to the recent victory of Nelson over Napoleon.
Cowslip and White Dittany: Dodecotheon Medea and Dictamnus albus.
By Miss Drake.
Yellow Sulfur Rose. Rosa sulfura.
Yellow Strawflower. By Miss Drake.
Chinese Water Lily and Trailing Bell Flower: Nelumbium speciosum and Nolana prostrata.
American Aloe or Agave set in a landscape.
White Lily with yellow margined leaves and classical temple alluding to it being cherised by the Ancient Greeks and later the Romans.
Pentaphylloides floribunda.
Mammoth Aloe in the Hills.
Queen Flower: Bird of Paradise in an African landscape.
Curious American Bog Plants. Fly Oprys, Venus Fly Trap, Bee Orphys, Yellow side-saddle, Tutsan-leaved Dog’s bone and Stinking pothos.
Branch of the tree. Engraved by John Pass.
Iris: German, varicoloured and variegated Irises.
Giant-flowered dendrobium. Dendrobium formosum.
Helianthemum Tuberaria, Plantain-leaved Sun-Rose.
Magnolia: Blooming branch of the laurel leaved Tulip tree. Engraved by John Pass.
The Blue Passion Flower climbing a classical column.
Greenhouse, circular conservatory and common conservatory.
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.
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.
Helianthemum formosum, Beautiful Sun-Rose.
Tankerville’s or China Limodorum set in a romanticised English landscape alluding to Lady Tankerville, a well known collector of exotic plants,
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.
Golden Shot Wallflower. Erysimum Perofskianum.
Musk mallow. By Miss Drake.
Bush Rose. Rosa Vantenatiana.

 

19th Century 1840-1875 

After Walter Hood Fitch.
Debrobium nobile and Thyrsacanthus Schomburgkianus. After Augusta Withers.
1. Showy Teleckle 2. Glandulous Elecampane 3. Silphium trifoliatum 4. Ratibida columnaris 5. Pinnated Rudbeckle 6.Three lobed Rudbeckle 7.Tripartite leaved Golden Crown
1. Mr Barlow’s 2. Muntain 3. Variable Bee 4. Mr Menzies’s 5. Azure.
Fritillaria meleagris.
Double Narcissus. Sulphur Kroon Silver Phoenix.
Cortusa-leaved buttercup. After Walter Hood Fitch.
Dianthus heddewigh.
Vanda tricolor var., Vanda tricolor formosa, Vanda insignis Helveola and Mitonia spectabilis. After Augusta Withers.
Milk, Bird’s, Shoe and Joint Vetch, and Saint Foin.
Juniperus Occidentalis.
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.
1. Common purple Rudbeckle 2. Various leaved Echinacea 3 . Dickon’s Echinacea 4. Late flowering Purple Rudbeckle.
1. Variable 2. Sir Robert Peel 3. Harris’s Inimitable 4. Levic’s Incomparable.
Rhododendron Nuttali. Large White Rhododendron from Assam.
Adonis, Dinae and Archimede.
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.
Polyanthus Narcissus.
1. Edulis Superba 2. Common Garden 3. Fine leaved 4 .Hybrid 5. Russ’s Crimson
Palms (Attalea). Martinezia truncata, Euterpe andicola and Euterpe Haenkeana with Guaranins hunting with bow and arrow.
Single Early Tulip. Yellow Prince with variegated foliage.
Ixia Hybrid. African cornflower in a bunch.
Variegated Simethus, Bluebells and Starch Grape.
Round-headed mealy primrose. After Walter Hood Fitch.
Blood-Coloured Tacsonia. After Walter Hood Fitch.
La Gitana, Trophée, François and Fleurette. After Augusta Withers.
Hemiandra pungens, Gompholobium splendens and Grevillia elegans. After Augusta Withers.
Capt. Champion’s Rhoddeia. After Walter Hood Fitch.
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.
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.
Lillium Chalcedonicum.
After Walter Hood Fitch.
After Walter Hood Fitch.
1. Oriental 2. Alpine 3. Orange Red 4. Common Welsh 5. Large-flowered Prickly 6. Canadian Bloodroot 7. Cordate-leaved Macleaya
Pinus Contorta.
Sparaxis Tricolour. After Arentine H. Arendsen.
Chrysanthemum Indicum. 1. Early Crimson 2. Quilled Orange 3. Quilled White
Hothouse flowers, Allamanda Schottii and Stephanotis floribunda. After Augusta Withers.
Pinus Ponderosa.
Cocunut Tree (Cocos nucifero). With a European House in Tahiti.
After Walter Hood Fitch.
1. Pictee Emmeline 2. Picotee Princess Frederick, 3. Bijon de Clement carnation 4. Prince de Nassau carnation
Lapageria rosea and Weigela rosea. After Augusta Withers.
Five varieties.
Madame Henry Jacotot petunia and Salvia tricolor.
Abies Williamsonii.
Palm Tree of the Great Andaman Islands.
After Walter Hood Fitch.
Scaly Rhododendron. Small purple flowers. After Walter Hood Fitch.
1. Chalcedonian 2. Florentine 3. Nepal 4. Three toothed 5. Spring.
Augustina superba and Caryophylloides. After Augusta Withers.
Mirabelia Meisense. After Walter Hood Fitch.

19th Century After 1875 to Early 20th Century 

Lilium monadephum.
Odontoglossum alexandro crispum.
Hybrid variety.
Nepalese Lily. After Henry Moon.
Lilium oxypetalum and Lilium Nipalense.
Lilium superbum.
Odontoglossum phalaenopsis.
Cactus Dahlia Yuarezi.
Standard van Boskoop. Hybrid developed by the Koster nurseries.
Lilium tigerinum.
Lilium Duchartrei. Marbled Martagon Lily.
Lilium Giganteum.
Odontoglossum Alexandrae (Crispum). Curled odontoglossum.
Narcissus bicolour and Narcissus bicolour var Horsfeldi.
Celine Forestier, Monsieur Boncenne and La France.
J. Marshall Brooks.
Cattleya eldorado. White oweni and pink lindeni varieties.