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Beautiful Leaved Plants

By Shirley Hibberd

54 highly detailed scans

NEW BENEFIT ! This CD has even higher resolution images - 200dpi resolution instead of 150dpi on most of our other CDs

 

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

 

$59.99 - order #CD026

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

 

Examples of the antique prints on the CD

These are small images for display on this web page. The scans on the CD are much more detailed and bigger (same size as original antique print)

To see the original prints and images of all the prints on the CD click here

Antique print of beautiful leaf by Hibberd Antique print of beautiful leaf by Hibberd Antique print of beautiful leaf by Hibberd
Antique print of beautiful leaf by Hibberd Antique print of beautiful leaf by Hibberd Antique print of beautiful leaf by Hibberd

 

Contents of the CD

 

The CD contains:

 

1. Incredibly detailed scans of 54 antique prints of beautiful ferns including all of the ones on this page and many more The scans are much more detailed and higher quality than those on this web site. When printed on a typical ink jet printer they are a very close match to the original antique prints

 

2. A full contents list giving the common and latin names

 

3. An excellent screen saver featuring all the prints.

 

Information

The scans on this CD are of a rare series of original antique prints portraying amazingly attractive leaves, mainly from the tropics. They were selected, in the words of Hibberd, “with an eye to intrinsic beauty, from amongst the thousands of beautiful leaved plants with which the earth is adorned.”
Their glossy coloring and elegant shape mean these prints look superb when framed.

Date

1869

Source

New and Rare Beautiful Leaved Plants by Shirley Hibberd, published in Covent Garden, London.

Print method

The antique prints were chromolithographs with especially glossy coloring.

Condition

The prints the scans were made from were in excellent condition.

Size

The prints measured 10” by 6½” (25 cm by 16.5 cm)

How to order

Please note the order number for this CD 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.

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