Discover antique botanical prints.
Botanical illustration has been an important art form for centuries. Illustrating plants' colour and detail is a beautiful blend of art and science.
Botanical illustration reached a peak of popularity in about 1600 to 1900. This was an exciting era of exploration and discovery. Crew members often included botanists, plant collectors and commercial gardeners. They wanted to bring new plants back to Europe to study, display and sell. For example, Sir Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook's first voyage in 1769.
Botanical prints were made to record discoveries and inform a wide audience about the plants.
Botanical art one is still of the most popular types of home decor.
Here are thousands of antique botanical prints for you to choose from.
27.5 x 20.5cm (10.5 x 8 inches). This is an antique chromolithograph which was made in the 1890s for a work by John Wright, a horticulturist and editor of the London Journal of Horticulture. He created fine works illustrating fruit, vegetables and flowers, using excellent botanical artists such as ..
US$80.00
31 x 24 cm (12 x 9.5 inches).This is a photogravure from Karl Blossfeldt’s masterpiece Wunder In Der Natur (Wonder in Nature), 1942. Blossfeldt was a professor of design in Berlin and made the photogravures using a home made magnifying camera, revealing hidden beauty. In 2001 Urformen der Kunst was ..
US$90.00
25.5 x 16.5 cm (10 x 6.5 inches).Saxifragi fortuneiJapanThis original antique lithograph was made in 1869 by James Shirley Hibberd. This relatively rare series of prints portrayed amazingly attractive leaves, mainly from the tropics. They were selected, in the words of Hibberd, with an eye to intrin..
US$50.00
28 x15cm (9 x 6 inches)Asplenium fontanumThese rare, intricately detailed prints were made by Henry Bradbury in 1859 using the ingenious nature printing technique, which used real specimens to make the metal printing plates. They are amazingly life like, capturing the fine detail of each fern. The ..
US$50.00
34.5 x 26 cm (13.5 x 10.5 inches).There is a central fold, as issued and shown in the picture.FranceThis lithograph is from L'Illustration Horticole by Jean Jules Linden, one of the finest botanical periodicals first published in Belgium in 1854. It aimed educate people about the fascinating plants..
US$79.00
28 x15cm (9 x 6 inches)Athyrium Filix-Foemina var thyssanotumThese rare, intricately detailed prints were made by Henry Bradbury in 1859 using the ingenious nature printing technique, which used real specimens to make the metal printing plates. They are amazingly life like, capturing the fine detai..
US$50.00
23 x 16 cm (9 x 6.5 inches)Euphorbia FulgensMexicoThis hand colored engraving was made in the 1830s by Sir Joseph Paxton, a hugely talented man. Paxton started as an assistant gardener with no education & rose to become the head gardener to the Duke of Devonshire. His design of the conservatory at ..
US$55.00
34.5 x 26 cm (13.5 x 10.5 inches).There is a central fold, as issued and shown in the picture.This lithograph is from L'Illustration Horticole by Jean Jules Linden, one of the finest botanical periodicals first published in Belgium in 1854. It aimed educate people about the fascinating plants being..
US$79.00
34.5 x 26 cm (13.5 x 10.5 inches).There is a central fold, as issued and shown in the picture.This lithograph is from L'Illustration Horticole by Jean Jules Linden, one of the finest botanical periodicals first published in Belgium in 1854. It aimed educate people about the fascinating plants being..
US$79.00
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23 x 16 cm (9 x 6.5 inches)Pentstemon gentianoidesThis hand colored engraving was made in the 1830s by Sir Joseph Paxton, a hugely talented man. Paxton started as an assistant gardener with no education & rose to become the head gardener to the Duke of Devonshire. His design of the conservatory at ..
US$55.00
24 x 16cm (9.5 x 6.5 inches)Isoloma trianaeiThis beautiful lithograph with original hand coloring was made in 1854-1855 and comes from Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe by Louis van Houtte, a famous nineteenth century Belgian horticulturalist. He employed plant collectors to bring back att..
US$60.00
31.7 x 23.5 cm (12.5 x 9.2 inches). Colchicum giganteum, sibthorpii and bivonce superbum This antique chromolithograph was made in 1903 for William Robinson, an Irish gardener and journalist whose ideas about wild gardening spurred the movement that led to the popularising of the English cottage ga..
US$65.00
26 x 17.5 cm (10.5 x 7 inches)Now know as Ipomoea mauritianaThis lithograph is from L'Illustration Horticole by Jean Jules Linden, one of the finest botanical periodicals first published in Belgium in 1854. It aimed educate people about the fascinating plants being gathered from around the world an..
US$79.00
24 x 16cm (9.5 x 6.5 inches)Gilia coronopifolia var. Carneo-luteaThis beautiful lithograph with original hand coloring was made in 1854-1855 and comes from Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe by Louis van Houtte, a famous nineteenth century Belgian horticulturalist. He employed plant collect..
US$60.00
32.5 x 24cm (12.75 x 6.5 inches)Salisburia adianthifoliaThis beautiful lithograph with original hand coloring was made in 1854-1855 and comes from Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe by Louis van Houtte, a famous nineteenth century Belgian horticulturalist. He employed plant collectors to br..
US$60.00
24 x 16cm (9.5 x 6.5 inches)
This beautiful sepia lithograph was made in 1854-1855 and comes from Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe by Louis van Houtte, a famous nineteenth century Belgian horticulturalist. He employed plant collectors to bring back attractive plants from around the world..
US$30.00
27.5 x 20.5cm (10.5 x 8 inches). This is an antique chromolithograph which was made in the 1890s for a work by John Wright, a horticulturist and editor of the London Journal of Horticulture. He created fine works illustrating fruit, vegetables and flowers, using excellent botanical artists such as ..
US$80.00
23 x 16 cm (9 x 6.5 inches)Dillwynia GlycinifoliaAustraliaThis hand colored engraving was made in the 1830s by Sir Joseph Paxton, a hugely talented man. Paxton started as an assistant gardener with no education & rose to become the head gardener to the Duke of Devonshire. His design of the conserva..
US$55.00
24.5 x 15.5 cm (9.5 x 6 inches).JapanThis original antique lithograph was made in 1872 by Edward Joseph Lowe. This series of prints portrayed amazingly attractive leaves, mainly from the tropics. The gorgeous coloring and elegant leaf shapes help give them a style that will never date. This print is..
US$50.00
24 x 16cm (9.5 x 6.5 inches)Calapogon pulchellus This beautiful lithograph with original hand coloring was made in 1854-1855 and comes from Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe by Louis van Houtte, a famous nineteenth century Belgian horticulturalist. He employed plant collectors to bring bac..
US$60.00
21 x 13.5 cm (8.5 x 5.5 inches)Farfugium grandeThis is an original hand colored stone lithograph made in 1857 by James Andrews. Andrews' talent for drawing flowers from nature in the most meticulous detail is shown to full advantage in his finely hand-colored stone lithographs of the highest quality..
US$75.00
28 x15cm (9 x 6 inches)Asplenium virideThese rare, intricately detailed prints were made by Henry Bradbury in 1859 using the ingenious nature printing technique, which used real specimens to make the metal printing plates. They are amazingly life like, capturing the fine detail of each fern. The pr..
US$50.00
27.5 x 20.5cm (10.5 x 8 inches). dendrobium nobiliu, Wardianum,Leechianum,Findleyanum This is an antique chromolithograph which was made in the 1890s for a work by John Wright, a horticulturist and editor of the London Journal of Horticulture. He created fine works illustrating fruit, vegetables an..
US$80.00
21 x 16 cm (8.25 x 6.25 inches)This antique copper plate engraving is by Pierre Pomet, a Paris apothecary.Pomet became chief druggist to King Louis XIV and a purveyor of medicinal remedies from distant lands.It was made in 1725 for Pomet's " A Compleat History of Drugges ". This was the most complet..
US$60.00
38 x 28 cm (15 x 11 inches).Hager's Tulip - T. Hageri HeldrThis large 1930 vintage lithograph is by William Rickatson Dykes. William Dykes was an English amateur botanist who was Secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society and a fellow of the Linnean Society of London.His wife was Elsie Katherine D..
US$35.00
24 x 14 cm (5.5 x 9.5 inches)Cistus hirsutusSpainThis beautiful hand coloured engraving is from Robert Sweet's distinguished work on Rock Roses. It was published between 1825 and 1830 in London and depicts the prominent varieties that were available in England at the time. The illustrations were by ..
US$45.00
24 x 14 cm (5.5 x 9.5 inches)Helianthemum pilosumThis beautiful hand coloured engraving is from Robert Sweet's distinguished work on Rock Roses. It was published between 1825 and 1830 in London and depicts the prominent varieties that were available in England at the time. The illustrations were by ..
US$60.00
27 x 17.7 cm (10.6 x 7 inches)BrazilThis lithograph is from L'Illustration Horticole by Jean Jules Linden, one of the finest botanical periodicals first published in Belgium in 1854. It aimed educate people about the fascinating plants being gathered from around the world and hopefully persuade them..
US$39.00
24 x 14 cm (5.5 x 9.5 inches)Helianthemum lignosumThis beautiful hand coloured engraving is from Robert Sweet's distinguished work on Rock Roses. It was published between 1825 and 1830 in London and depicts the prominent varieties that were available in England at the time. The illustrations were by..
US$60.00
28 x15cm (9 x 6 inches)Scolopendrium vulgare var Supralineatum, MultiformeThese rare, intricately detailed prints were made by Henry Bradbury in 1859 using the ingenious nature printing technique, which used real specimens to make the metal printing plates. They are amazingly life like, capturing t..
US$50.00