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Linden's L'Illustration Horticole

CD of 27 high quality digital scans of antique prints

 

Incredibly detailed scans of all the prints in a whole year of an 1890s edition of Linden's L'Illustration Horticole which has some of the best lithographs of mainly tropical flowers and plants

 

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

 

$39.99 - order #CD010

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 original antique prints by Linden 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 much more detailed and bigger (same size as original antique print)
Antique print of Cycad by Linden

Contents of the CD

 

The CD contains:

1. Incredibly detailed scans of antique prints of flowering plants from all over the world. 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. The plants included are:

 

Horn of Plenty, Datura Cornucopia (source of psychotropic drug atropine)
Orchid, Cyprideum x. Yvonnae
Greenhouse of Grapes (b/w)
Sacred Lotus, Nelumbium Speciosum, Egypt
Climbing Lily,Methonica (gloriosa) Superba
Topiary (b/w), Asparagus comorensis
Canna Hybrida
Bougainvillea spectabilis
Purple Bell Vine, Rodochiton volubile, Mexico
Sky Flower, Thunbergia grandiflora, India
Red Riding Hood vine, Dipladenia atropurpurea, Brazil
Begonia faureana, Brazil
Cineraires
Orchid, Dendobrium nobile
Cyclamen a Grande Fleurs
Brownea ariza
Gloxinia grandiflora
Twelve Apostles Lily,Marica northiana, Brazil
Gloxinia grandiflora
Anthurium salmoneum
Heliconia aureo-striata (b/w)
Begonia faureana var metallica, Brazil
Maiden Hair fern, Adiantum lineatum
Begonia tubereux
Tree fern Hemitelia lindeni, Bolivia
Caladium lilluputiense
Philodendron devansayeanum

 

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

 

3. An excellent screen saver featuring all the prints.

 

 

 

Information

L’Illustration Horticole was one of the finest botanical periodicals of the latter half of the 19th Century, and was first published in Ghent, Belgium in 1854. Its purpose was to educate people about the fascinating plants being gathered from around the world and hopefully persuade them to buy them from the associated plant nurseries.

The driving force behind the later editions was Jean Linden a renowned botanist and horticulturalist.

The prints were lavishly illustrated and lithographed by some of the best botanical artists and lithographers of the day, such as Goosens, De Pannemaeker and Stroobant. Many are enhanced by delicate shellac finishing

Print method

The original antique prints are chromolithographs.

Chromolithography was invented in about 1830 and was the first true multi-color printing technique (previously color had to be applied by hand). A printing stone was used for each color so highly colorful prints such as these required a lot of stones and a great deal of care in aligning them. The Victorians loved this method of printing because of the rich coloring that could be achieved. Today this method is too expensive to use.

Condition of prints scanned

Excellent condition. The colors of the prints these cans were made from were very fresh and bright.

Size

The original prints measured 10½" by 7" (26½ cm by 17½ cm).

How to order

Please note the order number which is 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.