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Curtis's Botanical Magazine

CD of 60 high quality digital scans of antique prints including 17 orchids

 

Incredibly detailed scans of all the prints in the whole year of an 1890s edition of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, the longest running and most famous botanical journal

 

Page down to see a selection of the prints, the contents list and to read about their history

 

$59.99 - order #CD002

To order, press the order link in the menu at the top of this page

Includes a bonus of a wonderful screen saver of the prints

 

To buy the original antique prints click here

 

Benefits

  • Save money - print accurate copies of beautiful antique prints for a fraction of their cost

  • Study them before investing in the original prints

  • Illustrate educational projects

  • Use them to create art, greeting cards, calendars, postcards and posters, computer wallpaper and clip art

  • Enjoy the screensaver of the prints

Features

  • Scans are of the original antique prints

  • Scans are exactly same dimensions as original antique print

  • Scans are saved as bitmap files (.bmp) so all detail is retained (unlike jpg files)

  • Each image file is several megabytes large! Prints were scanned at 300dpi and saved at 150dpi (similar to the resolution of most digital photos)

  • Print direct from the CD or from programs such as Microsoft Picture It, Adobe Photoshop, Corel PhotoPaint, Macromedia Fireworks and Paint Shop Pro

 

 

Examples of the antique prints on the CD

These are small images for display on this web page. The scans on the CD are bigger (same size as original antique print)
Antique print: picture of Protea Antique print: picture of Banana Antique print from Curtis' botanical magazine: picture of Gladioil

Protea

Protea rhodantha

From South Africa

 

Banana

Musa manni

From India

 

Gladioli

Tritonia rosea

From South Africa

 
Antique print from Curtis' botanical magazine: picture of orchid Antique print from Curtis' botanical magazine: picture of orchid Antique print from Curtis' botanical magazine: picture of iris

Orchid

Epidendrum spondiadum
From Jamaica and Costa Rica

 

Orchid

Cypripedium montanum

From California

 

Iris

Iris hookeriana

From the Himalayas

 

Contents of the CD

 

The CD contains scans spectacular flowering plants from all over the world. The plants include:

-17 orchids

- Protea

- Bromeliad

- Rhodedendrons

- Veronicas

- Amorphophallus

- Cacti

- Banana

- Numerous tropical plants and flowers

- Numerous popular garden flowers such as allium, gladioli, lily, veronica and abutilon

 

The countries of origin include

- Australia, New Zealand and Polynesia

- USA

- Most countries in South America

- South Africa

- China

- Malaysia

- Spain

 

A full contents list is included on the CD giving the latin name and country of origin for each plant.

 

Information

The Botanical Magazine (1787-1983) was one of the first, and certainly the longest published, of the British horticultural journals. Regardless of year, the plants were drawn, engraved and colored by some of the leading botanical artists of the day such as Sydenham Edwards, James Sowerby and the Fitch family. These botanical journals were in great demand in Victorian times, when the middle and upper classes had an apparently insatiable appetite for learning about and growing exotic plants.

Source

Curtis' Botanical Magazine, edited by Joseph Hooker and illustrated by J.N.Fitch and others

Print method

The original prints that were scanned for this CD are hand colored lithographs.

Condition

The original prints that were scanned for this CD are in excellent condition. The colors are fresh and bright as is the paer they were printed on.

Size

9½ by 6 inches(24 cm by 15½ cm)
Some of the prints are double sized fold out prints and measure 12" by 9½" (31 cm by 24 cm).

How to order

Please note the order number which is shown at the top of the page. Then click on the Order button at the top or the Order link at the bottom of this page.