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

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

 

19th Century 1800-1840

Helianthemum umbellatum, Umbel-flowered Sun Rose.
Curious American Bog Plants. Fly Oprys, Venus Fly Trap, Bee Orphys, Yellow side-saddle, Tutsan-leaved Dog’s bone and Stinking pothos.
Blush Noisette Rose. Rosa Noisettiana
Yellow Sulfur Rose. Rosa sulfura.
Four details of the husk, shell, and coconut fruit. Engraved by John Pass.
Royal Rose. Rosa Gallica Regalis.
The Sacred Egyptian Bean (Lotus). Revered as the Sacred Lotus of the East, it no longer grows in Egypt.
The Nodding Remealmia. Native to China and Japan.
Branch of the tree. Engraved by John Pass.
Tankerville’s or China Limodorum set in a romanticised English landscape alluding to Lady Tankerville, a well known collector of exotic plants,
Peach House. 1. Ground plan 2. transverse section of the underground works 3. upper section.
Giant-flowered dendrobium. Dendrobium formosum.
Musk mallow. By Miss Drake.
Bridge Rose. Rosa Gallica Pontiana
Mammoth Bamboo in a woodland.
Branch with fruit. Engraved by John Pass.
Pentaphylloides floribunda.
Flowering branch with fruit of the Rose coloured Balsam. Engraved by John Pass.
Helianthemum formosum, Beautiful Sun-Rose.
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.
With details of fruit and ten specimens of fruit flies.
Damask Rose. Rosa Damascena.
White Lily with yellow margined leaves and classical temple alluding to it being cherised by the Ancient Greeks and later the Romans.
Helianthemum serpyllifolium, Serpyllum-leaved Sun-Rose.
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.
Dalmatian Toadflax. By Miss Drake.
Bush Rose. Rosa Vantenatiana.
Mammoth Aloe in the Hills.
Training and Grafting. 1. One year pruned 2. Second year 3. Third year trained 4. Cleft Grafting 5. Mixed Grafting 6. Extreme grafting.
Flora, Zephyrus, and their daughter Carpo examining the Night-Blooming Cereus.
American Aloe or Agave set in a 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.
Blooming branch of the laurel leaved Tulip tree. Engraved by John Pass.
Dewy, Hirsute and Bell-shaped with snakes and a lizard set in an African landscape with an erupting volcano.
The Superb Lily, also known as the Turk’s Cap, set in a romanticised North American landscape.
Golden Shot Wallflower. Erysimum Perofskianum.
Yellow Strawflower. By Miss Drake.
Chinese oak with its frutifications. Engraved by John Pass.
The Snowdro with yellow and purple crocuses set in a wintry English landscape.
By Miss Drake.
Alstroemeria. By Miss Drake.
The Blue Egyptian Water Lily set in a romanticised landscape with Aboukir and the Nile, alluding to the recent victory of Nelson over Napoleon.
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.
Flora Dispensing Her Favours on the Earth. 1812
Bengal Carnation Rose. Rosa Indica Caryophyllea.
The Snowdrop with crocuses in a wintery English landscape.
Queen Flower: Bird of Paradise in an African landscape.
Greenhouse, circular conservatory and common conservatory.
With the mode of extracting Turpentine. Engraved by John Pass.
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. Framed.
Helianthemum Tuberaria, Plantain-leaved Sun-Rose.
The Blue Passion Flower climbing a classical column.
Set in a romanticised lanscape on the Ganges with a pagoda. This plate is usually found with additional spikes in hand colouring to ‘plump’ the flower.
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.
Pomponia Rose. Rosa pomponia.
Rosenberg Rose. Rosa Rosenbergiana.
The Nodding Remealmia native to China & Japan. With delicate drops of dew falling from its petals.
Cistus minspeliensis, Montpelier Rock-Rose.
Norway Spruce Fir tree branch with cones. Engraved by John Pass.

 

19th Century 1840-1875 

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

19th Century After 1875 to Early 20th Century 

Lilium humboldti.
Lilium Duchartrei. Marbled Martagon Lily.
Hybrid variety.
J. Marshall Brooks.
Dahlia gracilis. Gracilis superba, cuprea and lutea.
Cattleya eldorado. White oweni and pink lindeni varieties.
Celine Forestier, Monsieur Boncenne and La France.
Gloxinia Speciosa Varieties. Chiswick White.
Lilium chalcedonicum.
Lilium superbum.
Standard van Boskoop. Hybrid developed by the Koster nurseries.
Lilium monadephum.
Odontoglossum Pescatorei. The Grand or Nolble orchid.
Lilium tigerinum.
Narcissus bicolour and Narcissus bicolour var Horsfeldi.
Alfred K. Williams.
Lilium oxypetalum and Lilium Nipalense.