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

Varieties: Violet, Anonis, Aster, Apocynum, Dracophalum, and Heliotrope.
Verbascum (Mullein): With detail of the flower and key in Latin. Title heightened in gold.
Lycium (Boxthorn): With detail of flower and key in Latin. Title heightened in gold.
Flos Cardinalis.
With Water Tupelo (Nyssa aquatica) branch.
Indigofera (Indigo): With detail of flower and key in Latin. Title heightened in gold.
Lysimachia Bulbifera: Bulb-Bearing Loosestrife.
Maple Branch with red flowers (Erable) and American Potato bean (Apios).
Palm: Date Palm Phoenix dactylifera: Men harvesting the fruit. With text in French.
Pelargonium: Scarlet Geranium: Geranium inquinans.
Sophora (Sun King): With detail of the flower and key in Latin. Title heightened in gold.
Cowslip: Common Cowslip. Primula ver
Persian Iris, iris persica and Wild Arrach, astriplex hatata with a Sword grass Moth, phalaena lucae.
Varieties: Tulips. After the renowned botanical artist Jan van Huysum
Anthoxanthum adoratum with segment showing the petals, calyx and seed.
Ranunculus, Black Thorn, Columbine, White bells and a Spotted red and white underwing Moth.
Kniphofia: Red Hot Poker. Aletris uvaria
Tsi Shu (Japanese Varnish) Tree, Betel Vine, and Chinese cabbage (Fuling): With Tea and Rhubarb.
Primula Acaulis: Double Lilac Primrose.
Ledum (Kalmia): Two flowering branches with detail of flower and key in Latin. Title heightened in gold.
Miirabilis: Marvel of Peru. Mirabilis Jalappa
Purple and White Valerian.
Calceolaria Fothergill.
Plantago (Fleawort): Plantago latifolia rosea, quinquenervia major and minor, angustifolia alpina, polium montanum, and poium montanum lavendula.
Double China Aster, Double Crimson Hollyhock, Spotted Phlox, Single Violet Stock July Flower, Double variegated Stock July Flower, Trilobate Lavatera, and Giant Lupine.
American Panax (Ginseng) and Soloman’s Seal (Polygonatume).
Varieties: Roses. Sunflower, Carnations and Poppies.
Cotton plants: Two types, Jack-fruit and Li Chi.
Petiveria (Pigeonberry): With detail of the flower and key in Latin. Title heightened in gold.
Varieties: Hermerocallis, Campion, Hlyrian, Ornithagalum, and Hellebore.
The Superb Lily, also known as the Turk’s Cap, set in a romanticised mountainous landscape alluding to its North American origins.
Chelone (Turtlehead plant): With detail of flower and key in Latin. Title heightened in gold.
Fern from Plaisance Bay and American Cypress branch.
Mullein: Great Mullein. Verbascum Thapsus
Trillium Erectum (Solanium) and Solidago (Grande de Consolide).
La Triomphe, Louis XVI, Duchess of Devonshire, General Washington, Earl Spencer, La Majestieuse and Gloria Mundi.
Linum Flavium: Yellow Flax.
Flowering Sensitive Plant: Set within an Indian landscape with hummingbirds and an admirer in the foreground.
Sweet Briar Rose, rosa englanteria and Wild Rose Moth, phalaena lacertenaria.
Scordium (Germander): Scorodomia seu salvia agrestis, scorzonera crcisi, humilior angustifolia, floribus luteis altera, folis nervosis.
Melanthium (Bunchflower): With detail of flower and key in Latin. Title heightened in gold.
Aloe: Agave or American Aloe. Aloes are natives of the Old World whilst agaves are from the New. Thornton subsequently corrected his mistake.
Red Ranunculus, ranunculus asiaticus and White Thorn or Hawthorn, crataegus oxyacantha with Bluebells and a Brimstone Moth, phalena crataegate.
Gentiana Acaulis: Large flowered Gentianella.
Flowering Plants: Two varieties from New Guinea and eight from Australia (New Holland)
Summer savory with flower, calix and seed.
Justicia Peruviana.
Scolymocephalus (Thistle sugarbush): Two varieties.
Marigold: Glittering Fig Marigold. Mesembryanthemum micans
Caryphyllius pleno, 3 variations and Caryphyllius dimidia

 

19th Century 1800-1840

Peach House. 1. Ground plan 2. transverse section of the underground works 3. upper section.
American Aloe or Agave set in a landscape.
Branch of the tree. Engraved by John Pass.
Mammoth Aloe in the Hills.
Helianthemum Tuberaria, Plantain-leaved Sun-Rose.
By Miss Drake.
Cistus minspeliensis, Montpelier Rock-Rose.
Botany: Twenty four classes of Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus.
Rosenberg Rose. Rosa Rosenbergiana.
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
Cowslip and White Dittany: Dodecotheon Medea and Dictamnus albus.
Bridge Rose. Rosa Gallica Pontiana
Bird of Paradise and Cobweb Houseleek: Strelezia Reginae and Sempervivum arachnoideum.
Crown Imperial Lily and Hollow-root Snapdragon: Fruitillaria imperialis and Fumaria cava.
Botany: Simple Leaves. Forty six types of single leaves.
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.
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.
Pentaphylloides floribunda.
Mammoth Bamboo in a woodland.
The Snowdrop with crocuses in a wintery English landscape.
Royal Rose. Rosa Gallica Regalis.
The Nodding Remealmia. Native to China and Japan.
Tankerville’s or China Limodorum set in a romanticised English landscape alluding to Lady Tankerville, a well known collector of exotic plants,
Flora Dispensing Her Favours on the Earth. 1812
Flora, Zephyrus, and their daughter Carpo examining the Night-Blooming Cereus.
Helianthemum serpyllifolium, Serpyllum-leaved Sun-Rose.
Botany: Determinate Leaves. Thirty five identifying types of varieties with short flowering times and low leaf production (determinate).
The Nodding Remealmia native to China & Japan. With delicate drops of dew falling from its petals.
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.
Blush Noisette Rose. Rosa Noisettiana
Dahlia: Purple and yellow Dahlias.
Iris: German, varicoloured and variegated Irises.
Dalmatian Toadflax. By Miss Drake.
The Snowdro with yellow and purple crocuses set in a wintry English landscape.
Magnolia: Blooming branch of the laurel leaved Tulip tree. Engraved by John Pass.
Pomponia Rose. Rosa pomponia.
Yellow Sulfur Rose. Rosa sulfura.
Venus Fly Trap (Dionaea Muscipula): After Paulo Majioli, and engraved by John Pass.
Branch with fruit. Engraved by John Pass.
Bengal Carnation Rose. Rosa Indica Caryophyllea.
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.
Cruciferae: Heliophila, Enarthrocarpus, Brachycarpea with the parts of their flowers.
Giant-flowered dendrobium. Dendrobium formosum.
The Superb Lily, also known as the Turk’s Cap, set in a romanticised North American landscape.
Bush Rose. Rosa Vantenatiana.
The Sacred Egyptian Bean (Lotus). Revered as the Sacred Lotus of the East, it no longer grows in Egypt.
Norway Spruce Fir tree branch with cones. Engraved by John Pass.
Caryophylleae: Dianthus. Eight varieties.
Queen Flower: Bird of Paradise in an African landscape.
Chinese oak with its frutifications. Engraved by John Pass.
With the mode of extracting Turpentine. Engraved by John Pass.
Coffee: Branch of the Arabian coffee tree with fruit, blossoms and detail of the bean. By the engraver John Pass.
Greenhouse, circular conservatory and common conservatory.
Golden Shot Wallflower. Erysimum Perofskianum.
Four details of the husk, shell, and coconut fruit. Engraved by John Pass.
Cistus Cymosus, Cyme-flowered Rock Rose.
Musk mallow. By Miss Drake.
Stapelias Succulent: Dewy, Hirsute and Bell-shaped Stapelias with snakes and a lizard set in an African landscape with an erupting volcano.
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.
Cruciferae: Parrya L. exscapa, Stevenia and Notoveras with the parts of their flowers.
Training and Grafting. 1. One year pruned 2. Second year 3. Third year trained 4. Cleft Grafting 5. Mixed Grafting 6. Extreme grafting.
Curious American Bog Plants. Fly Oprys, Venus Fly Trap, Bee Orphys, Yellow side-saddle, Tutsan-leaved Dog’s bone and Stinking pothos.
Caryophylleae: Dianthus. Six varieties.
Chinese Water Lily and Trailing Bell Flower: Nelumbium speciosum and Nolana prostrata.
Helianthemum formosum, Beautiful Sun-Rose.
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.
Botany: Fifteen distinctive flower shapes or forms for identification.
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.
Balsam: Flowering branch with fruit of the Rose coloured Balsam. Engraved by John Pass.
The Blue Passion Flower climbing a classical column.

 

19th Century 1840-1875 

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

19th Century After 1875 to Early 20th Century 

Lilium oxypetalum and Lilium Nipalense.
Odontoglossum Alexandrae (Crispum). Curled odontoglossum.
Didier’s Tulip. Tulip gesneriana.
Dahlia gracilis. Gracilis superba, cuprea and lutea.
Gladiolus gandavensis var brenchleyensis.
Filicinae: Ferns. Alsophila, Polypodium, Asplenium, Angiopteris, Monogramma, Pteris. Key available.
J. Marshall Brooks.
Lilium humboldti.
Lilium tigerinum.
Cattleya eldorado. White oweni and pink lindeni varieties.
Lilium Giganteum.
Odontoglossum phalaenopsis.
Narcissus bicolour and Narcissus bicolour var Horsfeldi.
Kaffir Lily, Schizostylus Coccinea and Autumn Zephyr Lily, Zephyranthes Candida.
Hybrid variety.
Gloxinia Speciosa Varieties. Chiswick White.
Alfred K. Williams.
Lilium chalcedonicum.
Coccinea, Lutea, Paragon and Glabrata.