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The Vegetable Kingdom by William Rhind

CD of incredibly detailed scans of 41 antique prints of all sorts of interesting and useful plants, e.g. Banana tree, palms, tropical fruit,coffee,chocolate & cannabis plants

 

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

 

$59.99 - order #CD016

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 much bigger (same size as original antique print) and far higher quality
Antique print: picture of banana palm tree by Rhind Antique print: picture of tropical fruit such as pawpaw by Rhind Antique print: picture of palm trees by Rhind

Plants used as food
Date Palm, Banana Palm, Jack Fruit, Pandanus

Tropical Fruit
Mammee, Pawpaw, Soursop, Negro Peach, Granadilla, Brazil Nut

Plants Used in Clothing and Cordage
Gomuti Palm, Piassava Palm, Sunn Hemp, Jute

Antique print: picture of tea, coffee, choclate, breadfruit by Rhind
Antique print: picture of tropical fruit such as pawpaw by Rhind
Antique print: picture of cannabis and flax by Rhind

Plants used as food
Coffee, Tea, Chocolate, Breadfruit

Tropical Fruit
Mammee, Pawpaw, Soursop, Negro Peach, Granadilla, Brazil Nut

Plants used in clothing and cordage
Cannabis, Cotton, Flax, New Zealand Flax

Contents of the CD

 

The CD contains:

 

1. 41 Incredibly detailed scans of all sorts of interesting and useful plants,. 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. 21 scans are of hand colored prints and 20 aare of beautifully detailed black and white engravings which generally depict lovely natural scenes such as palm trees near an oasis and plants on mountains.

 

2. A full contents detailing the plants on each image. Plants shown include the following:

Arrow Root
Australian Trees and Shrubs -Tea tree, Gum trees, Cabbage Palms, Bottle Brush etc.
Avocado
Brazil Nut
Breadfruit
Buckwheat
Cannabis
Cassava
Chestnut tree
Chocolate
Coffee
Cotton
Date palm, Banana palm
Durian
Flax
Fruit and ornamental trees
Fungi or mushroom plants.
Granadilla
Guava
Jack Fruit
Lemon and orange trees
Lychee
Maize
Mango
Mangosteen
Mangrove
Millet
Papyrus,
Pawpaw
Pistachio
Rice, Wheat
Scotch pine
Soursop
Spice Plants. Ginger, Black Pepper, Caper, Cayenne Pepper
Spice Plants. Nutmeg, Cinnamon, Clove, Allspice or Pimento
Sugar cane
Sweet Potato
Taro
Tea
Timber Trees. Oak, Ash, Elm, Beech, Lime, Birch, Weeping Willow
Walnut tree
Wax palm
Yam

3. An excellent screen saver featuring all the colored prints.

 

 

Information

The scans on this CD were made from original antique prints from a work by William Rhind.

William Rhind was a prominent Victorian botanist who lectured in Botany in Aberdeen, Scotland.

J.Bishop and William Fitch were his illustrators. Fitch had an incredible ability in dealing with complex botanical structures. Sir Joseph Hooker paid many tributes to "the incomparable botanical artist" with "his unrivalled skill in seizing the natural character of a plant", also saying "I don’t think that Fitch could make a mistake in his perspective or outline." According to Wilfred Blunt, in his authoritative, Art Of Botanical Illustration, “Fitch remains the most outstanding botanical artist of his day in Europe.”

Date

The prints were from the 1860s

Print method

The prints were steel plate engravings with original hand coloring.

Condition

The prints were in excellent condition. It is rare to find Rhind's prints in such superb condition (you usually find the prints have been handled quite a bit by people studying them over the years).

Size

The prints measured 9½ by 6 inches (15 by 24 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.