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

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

 

19th Century 1800-1840

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

 

19th Century 1840-1875 

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

19th Century After 1875 to Early 20th Century 

Kaffir Lily, Schizostylus Coccinea and Autumn Zephyr Lily, Zephyranthes Candida.
Madame van Houtte, Lady Bovill and Jackmani.
Gladiolus gandavensis var brenchleyensis.
Nepenthaceae Kannenptlanzen. Nepenthes melamphora, a carnivorous plant native to Sumatra and Java.
Odontoglossum Alexandrae (Crispum). Curled odontoglossum.
Lilium Speciosum Imperiale.
Lilium Duchartrei. Marbled Martagon Lily.
Lilium Giganteum.
Odontoglossum Pescatorei. The Grand or Nolble orchid.
Lilium oxypetalum and Lilium Nipalense.
Lilium superbum.
Lilium tigerinum.
Celine Forestier, Monsieur Boncenne and La France.
Orchid: Odontoglossum Roseum, Pink and White Orchid.
Lilium monadephum.
Alfred K. Williams.
Lilium chalcedonicum.
Orchideae Penusblumen. 16 types. Key available.
Odontoglossum phalaenopsis.
Tulips elegans, retroflexa cornuta stenopetalaviridflora persica.
Hybrid variety.
Coccinea, Lutea, Paragon and Glabrata.
Cactus Dahlia Yuarezi.