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Still-life Prints For Sale
Period: 19th Century
Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Flowering Pea Plant: An 18th C. Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "A. Lathyrus Major Peremis Richern B. Lathyrus Narbonensis Flore Albescen...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Malopa grandiflora, antique botanical flower engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Engraving with original hand-colouring. 1834. 230mm by 155mm. From Paxton's 'Magazine of botany and register of flowering plants' by Sir Joseph Paxton.
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Petunia violacea, antique botanical purple flower engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Engraving with original hand-colouring. 1834. 230mm by 155mm. From Paxton's 'Magazine of botany and register of flowering plants' by Sir Joseph Paxton.
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving of Flowering Tulip & Wild Garlic Plants
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copperplate engraving entitled "Tulipa viridiscoloris, Fritillaria iuncifolns, Allium Vrsinum" depicting flowering tulip, fritillary and wild garlic plants fro...
Category
Early 18th Century Academic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Swallow-wort Gentian, English antique flower botanical chromolithograph, 1895
By Frederick William Hulme
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Swallow-wort Gentian'
Process print from Frederick William Hulme’s ‘Familiar Wild Flowers’, circa 1890.
Hulme was known as a teacher and an amateur botanist. He was the Professor ...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Large-Leaved Saxifrage, English antique flower botanical chromolithograph, 1895
By Frederick William Hulme
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Large-Leaved Saxifrage'
Process print from Frederick William Hulme’s ‘Familiar Wild Flowers’, circa 1890.
Hulme was known as a teacher and an amateur botanist. He was the Professo...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Euphorbia, German antique botanical plant chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Euphorbiaceen'
(Euphorbia)
German chromolithograph, circa 1895.
240mm by 155mm (sheet)
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Oxlip, English antique yellow flower botanical chromolithograph, 1895
By Frederick William Hulme
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Oxlip'
Process print from Frederick William Hulme’s ‘Familiar Wild Flowers’, circa 1890.
Hulme was known as a teacher and an amateur botanist. He was the Professor of Freehand and...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bur Reed & Water Hemlock: A 17th-18th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Orobanche, Cicuta Maxima, Sparganium (Bur Reed, Water Hemlock, Broomrape) ", depicting a flowering Bur Reed, Water Hemlock, Broomrape plants from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713.
This beautiful colorful engraving is printed on thin laid chain-linked paper with wide margins. There us spotting and some discoloration, most prominently in the upper and lower margins. There is irregularity and some loss along the right paper edge. The print is otherwise in excellent condition with striking hand-coloring. The sheet measures 21.5" high and 17.25" wide.
Basilius Besler (1561–1629) was an apothecary and botanist. He was curator of the Willibaldsburg Castle garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop...
Category
Early 18th Century Academic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Torch Lily, English antique red flower botanical chromolithograph, 1895
By Frederick William Hulme
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Torch Lily'
Process print from Frederick William Hulme’s ‘Familiar Wild Flowers’, circa 1890.
Hulme was known as a teacher and an amateur botanist. He was the Professor of Freehan...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Hermit Crabs, German animal antique underwater crustacean engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Einsiedlerkrebse'
(Hermit crabs)
German wood-engraving, circa 1895.
240mm by 155mm (sheet)
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Ceramics, German antique decorative arts chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Keramik'
(Ceramics)
German chromolithograph, circa 1895. Central vertical fold as issued.
240mm by 305mm (sheet)
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mimulus roseus, antique botanical pink flower engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Engraving with original hand-colouring. 1834. 230mm by 155mm. From Paxton's 'Magazine of botany and register of flowering plants' by Sir Joseph Paxton.
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Sneezewort, Poppy, Strawflower: 17th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Ptarmica Vulgaris (Sneezewort), Papaver Spinosum (Mexican Poppy), Chrysocame Peregrina (Seaside Strawflower)", depicting flowering Sneezewort, Mexican Poppy and Seaside Strawberry plants respectively from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713.
This beautiful colorful engraving is printed on thin laid chain-linked paper. The left margin is thinner than the others and the left edge is somewhat irregular where the engraving was previously bound in the original publication. The print is otherwise in excellent condition with striking hand-coloring. The sheet measures 20" high and 16.38" wide.
Basilius Besler (1561–1629) was an apothecary and botanist. He was curator of the Willibaldsburg Castle garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop...
Category
1640s Academic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Early Tulip, English antique red flower botanical chromolithograph, 1895
By Frederick William Hulme
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Tacsonia'
Process print from Frederick William Hulme’s ‘Familiar Wild Flowers’, circa 1890.
Hulme was known as a teacher and an amateur botanist. He was the Professor of Freehand ...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Flowering Chestnut Plant: 18th C. Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "Castanea Equina, Chateignier amaire (Horse Chestnut)". It is plate 342 in...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Flowering Iris & Other Botanicals: Framed 17th C. Besler Hand-colored Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper-plate engraving entitled "I. Spatula foetida - II. Caucalis Dodonei - III. Cruciata", depicting three flowering plants, including an Iris, from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713.
This beautiful hand-colored botanical engraving is presented in a gold-colored wood frame with a French mat...
Category
Mid-17th Century Academic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
"February Bouquet" from 'The Twelve Months of Flowers' series by Robert Furber
By Robert Furber
Located in Alamo, CA
This framed hand-colored engraving entitled "February Bouquet" is from 'The Twelve Months of Flowers' by Henry Furber, published in London in 1730 by Robert Sayer and John King. Each of the twelve hand-colored engravings in the book were produced from paintings by Pieter Casteels (1684-1749) and engraved by Henry Fletcher (1710-1753). The book featured twelve detailed engravings of seasonal plants in bloom in the form of a bouquet. More than 400 different species of flowering plants were included with each plant numbered and accompanied by a list of the corresponding species names. Thirty-five species of flowers are depicted in this engraving in a bouquet sitting in an ornate attractive bowl. A few of the flowers lie loose on a table. The flower species are listed in a table in the lower portion of the plate, along with the month that these flowers are in bloom.
This colorful print is presented in a gold-colored wood frame with a cream-colored double mat with a heather green inner mat. The frame measures 23.5" High, 19" wide and 1.63" deep. There are a few small frame abrasions, but the print is in very good condition.
Robert Furber...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Chironia Baccifera Berry-Bearing Chironia /// English Botanical Flower Engraving
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: William Curtis (English, 1746-1799)
Title: "Chironia Baccifera Berry-Bearing Chironia" (Vol. 7, Plate 233)
Portfolio: The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed
Year...
Category
1790s Victorian Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving, Intaglio
Carnations and Picotees, English antique flower botanical chromolithograph, 1896
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Carnations and Picotees'
Flowers are numbered with a key to the varieties below the image.
Antique English flower botanical chromolithograph.
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
PRÉVOST. Print from Collection des Fleurs et des Fruits
Located in London, GB
Original stipple engraving by Charles-Louis Ruotte, printed in colour and finished by hand. Framed and glazed, overall size: 63.3 by 47.2 cm.
[Paris 1805].
Prevost came from a lo...
Category
Early 1800s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Color, Engraving, Handmade Paper
Flowering Feverfew Plants: A 17th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Matricaria Flore Simplici, Matricaria Flore Pleno, depicting flowering Feverfew and Double-flowered Feverfew plants, from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713. The feverfew plant is also known as featherfew, featherfoil, or bachelor’s buttons...
Category
1640s Academic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Human Eye, German antique medical anatomy wood-engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Auge des Menschen'
(Human Eye)
German wood-engraving, circa 1895. Central vertical fold as issued.
240mm by 305mm (sheet)
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Eye Diseases, German antique medical chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Augenkrankheiten'
(Eye Diseases)
German chromolithograph, circa 1895. Central vertical fold as issued.
240mm by 305mm (sheet)
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
THORNTON. The Superb Lily.
Located in London, GB
A magnificent print by Robert John Thornton; aquatint and mezzotint, printed in colour and finished by hand, heightened with gum arabic, from The Temple of Flora...
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint, Handmade Paper, Engraving
Chamomile & Safflower: A 17th-18th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Chamemelum Romanum flore simplici (Chamomile), Cincus Sativus (False saffron, Safflower), Chamaemelum Romanum Flore (Roman Chamomile)", depicting flowering Chamomile, Safflower and Roman Chamomile plants respectively from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713.
This beautiful colorful engraving is printed on thin laid chain-linked paper with wide margins. There are a few small spots and some irregularity of the lower edge. There is some bleed-through of text from the verso. The print is otherwise in excellent condition with striking hand-coloring. The sheet measures 22.25" high and 17.38" wide.
Basilius Besler (1561–1629) was an apothecary and botanist. He was curator of the Willibaldsburg Castle garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop...
Category
Early 18th Century Academic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Cocoa plant, caterpillar, ..., Plate 26, Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium
Located in Middletown, NY
Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, Plate No. 26; Cocoa plant, caterpillar, pupa, and butterflies. The Netherlands: 1705. En...
Category
Early 18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Coral Bank in the Red Sea, underwater sea chromolithograph, circa 1880
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Coral Bank in the Red Sea'
Antique English late 19th century chromolithograph.
Sheet 18cm by 26cm, image 12cm by 20cm.
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Set of Three Engravings from Curtis's "Flora Londinensis" /// Botanical Flowers
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: William Curtis (English, 1746-1799)
Titles: "Epilobium Tetragonum (Square Stalked Willow Herb)" (Vol. 2, Plate 131), "Stellaria Holostea (The Greater Stitchwort)" Vol. 2, Pla...
Category
1770s Old Masters Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio
Flowering Masterwort Plant: 18th C. Hand-colored Botanical Weinmann Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "Imperatoria seu ostrution Imperatoire Meisterwirk". It is plate 604 in We...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Flowering Sweet William Plant: 18th C. Hand-colored Weinmann Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "a. Caryophyllus Arborescens, b. Caryophyllus Barbatus". It is plate 327 i...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Chrysanthemum: An 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original antique hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving of flowering Chrysanthemum matricaria plants. It is entitled "A. Chrysanthemum Matricarice Folus Flore...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Primula Cortusoides - Siberian Primrose. Henry Andrews botanical engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Primula Cortusoides - Siberian Primrose'
Native of Siberia.
Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring from Henry Andrews' 'The Botanist's Repository', 1797-1812...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
4 plates from The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars & their Strange Diet..
Located in Middletown, NY
Four plates from The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars and their Strange Diet of Flowers. “Wolfsmelk Rupsen;" “Wolfsmilch, Raupe und Schmetterling" Amsterdam: J F Bernard, 1730. Each an engraving with hand coloring in watercolor and gouache printed on one sheet of watermarked Honig cream laid paper, each measures 6 1/4 x 5 inches (157 x 121 mm), sheet measures 20 5/8 x 14 inches (522 x 355 mm), full margins. With handling creases in the lower right sheet quadrant, as well as minor, loose cockling, otherwise in very good condition. The colors are superb with exceptionally fresh and bright saturation. Engraved between 1679 and 1683, printed 1730. Plates included: LIV, LV, LVI, & LVII.
MARIA SIBYLLA MERIAN was one of the most highly respected entomologists of the 17th century, and remains today one of the field's most significant figures. A German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator, she reared herself on the study of caterpillars, and made tremendous contributions to the knowledge of the life cycles of numerous species. Until her detailed and careful study of the process of metamorphosis it was thought that insects were "born of mud," through spontaneous generation.
Trained as a miniature painter by her stepfather, she published her first book of illustrations in 1675, at the age of 28. In 1679, Merian published the first volume of the two-volume series on caterpillars, The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars and their Strange Diet of Flowers; the second volume followed in 1683. Each volume contained 50 plates that she engraved and etched. In 1699, Merian traveled to Dutch Guiana...
Category
Early 18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Flowering Digitalis Plant: 18th C. Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "Digitalis rubra floribus albis maculatis. Digitalis angustifolia flore fe...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Amaryllis formosissima (Sprekelia, Aztec Lily), antique botanical engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Engraving with original hand-colouring. 1834. 230mm by 155mm. From Paxton's 'Magazine of botany and register of flowering plants' by Sir Joseph Paxton.
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Corn, Maize: An 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a striking original antique colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving of two varieties of corn or maize, which is finished with hand-coloring. It is entitled "Frumentum ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
"The Fern Gatherers" 18th Century Antique Mezzotint Engraving by John R. Smith
Located in Carmel, CA
"The Fern Gatherers" After a painting by George Morland. 1763-1804. - Mezzotint engraving by John Raphael Smith. 1752-1812.
Print: 20.75" x 26" - With Frame: 28" x 33.5"
Published:...
Category
Late 18th Century Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Flowering Garden Pea Plant: 18th C. Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "Pisum Mapis flore pupureo". It is plate 818 in Weinmann's monumental publ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Echium Glaucophyllum, Henry Andrews antique botanical flower engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Echium Glaucophyllum - Sea-green-leaved Viper's Bugloss'
Native of Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.
Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring from Henry Andrews...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Pee-amerdu Plant: A Rare 17th Century Botanical Engraving by H. van Rheede
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a rare 17th century engraving of a plant entitled "Pee-amerdu" by the Dutch botanist Hendrik van Rheede tot Drakenstein, plate 19 from his 'Hortus Indicus Malabaricus' (Garden of Malabar), published in Amsterdam in 1686 by Johann van Someren. The engraving depicts the Pee-amerdu plant, a large leafed plant climbing plant off the Malabar Coast in India. The plant is noted for its medicinal uses. It may be related to Tinospora species. Rheede's 19th century publication featured illustrations of exotic plants and fruits labelled with script in the upper right corner in Latin, Malay, Arabic, and Sanskrit. Hortus Indicus Malabaricus is believed to be the earliest comprehensive published work on the flora of Asia and the tropics. The 17th century treatise featured important illustrations of 740 plants of the region, including Indian medicinal plants.
The engraving is printed on 17th century laid, chain-linked watermarked paper. The sheet measures 14.88" high by 18.75" wide. There is a central fold, as issued. There are a few faint smudges, a spot in the upper margin and there is minimal irregularity of the left edge of the paper where the print was previously bound in the 17th century publication. The print is otherwise in very good condition.
There are additional Rheede botanical engravings from his 'Hortus Indicus Malabaricus' publication that are listed on my 1stdibs storefront and online website. These would make for an impressive display grouping. A discount is available for purchase of two or more of the prints.
Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Drakenstein...
Category
Late 17th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Winter and Spring
By Jean-Antoine Watteau
Located in Columbia, MO
Jean-Antoine Watteau
Winter – Spring
1841
Hand colored lithograph
14 x 19.5 inches
Framed: 25 x 31 inches
Category
19th Century Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Set of Six Hand-Colored Engravings from Curtis's Botanical Magazine /// Botany
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: William Curtis (English, 1746-1799)
Title: Set of Six Hand-Colored Engravings
Portfolio: The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed
Year: 1789-1810 (First-second ser...
Category
1780s Victorian Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving, Laid Paper, Intaglio
Milk-vetch Montpelier, Astragalus monspessulanus Plate 375
Located in Columbia, MO
Milk-vetch Montpelier, Astragalus monspessulanus Plate 375
1797
Hand-colored etching
Ed. 1st ed.
9 x 5.25 inches
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Caunga Cucumber Plant: A 17th Century Botanical Engraving by Hendrik van Rheede
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a rare 17th century engraving of a plant entitled "Caunga" by the Dutch botanist Hendrik van Rheede tot Drakenstein, plate 6 from his 'Hortus Indicus Malabaricus' (Garden of Malabar), published in Amsterdam in 1686 by Johann van Someren. The engraving depicts the caunga plant, also known as Inca cucumber or horned squash, which is a climbing vine that produces edible, cucumber-like fruits. Rheede's 19th century publication featured illustrations of exotic plants and fruits labelled with script in the upper right corner in Latin, Malay, Arabic, and Sanskrit. Hortus Indicus Malabaricus is believed to be the earliest comprehensive published work on the flora of Asia and the tropics. The 17th century treatise featured important illustrations of 740 plants of the region, including Indian medicinal plants.
The engraving is printed on 17th century laid, chain-linked paper, watermarked with an elaborate crown design. The sheet measures 15.25" high by 18.88" wide. There is a central fold, as issued. There is a small dark spot on the left which appears to represent a paper inclusion which occurred when the hand-made paper was produced. The print is otherwise in excellent condition.
There are additional Rheede botanical engravings from his 'Hortus Indicus Malabaricus' publication that are listed on my 1stdibs storefront and online website. These would make for an impressive display grouping. A discount is available for purchase of two or more of the prints.
Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Drakenstein...
Category
Late 17th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Amolago (Aglaonema) Plant: 17th Century Botanical Engraving by H. van Rheede
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a rare 17th century engraving of a plant entitled "Amolago" by the Dutch botanist Hendrik van Rheede tot Drakenstein, plate 16 from his 'Hortus Indicus Malabaricus' (Garden of Malabar), published in Amsterdam in 1686 by Johann van Someren. The engraving depicts the Amolago plant, a large leafed plant, possibly corresponding to the present day aglaonema plant. Rheede's 19th century publication featured illustrations of exotic plants and fruits labelled with script in the upper right corner in Latin, Malay, Arabic, and Sanskrit. Hortus Indicus Malabaricus is believed to be the earliest comprehensive published work on the flora of Asia and the tropics. The 17th century treatise featured important illustrations of 740 plants of the region, including Indian medicinal plants.
The engraving is printed on 17th century laid, chain-linked paper. The sheet measures 14.75" high by 17.25" wide. There is a central fold, as issued. There are a few tiny spots and there is minimal irregularity of the left edge of the paper where the print was previously bound in the 17th century publication. The print is otherwise in very good condition.
There are additional Rheede botanical engravings from his 'Hortus Indicus Malabaricus' publication that are listed on my 1stdibs storefront and online website. These would make for an impressive display grouping. A discount is available for purchase of two or more of the prints.
Hendrik Adriaan van...
Category
Late 17th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Tropaeolum Majus Atrosanguineum, antique botanical nasturtium flower engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Engraving with original hand-colouring. 1834. 230mm by 155mm. From Paxton's 'Magazine of botany and register of flowering plants' by Sir Joseph Paxton.
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Banana Plant: An 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original antique colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving of banana plants, which is finished with hand-coloring. It is entitled "Banana 2. Mauze, Baradis-feigen", p...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Flowering Morning Glory: 18th Century Hand-colored Weinmann Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "A. Convolvulus Major Folio Subrotundo Purpureg Albo, B. Convolvulus Major...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Nepenthes, English antique carnivorous plant botanical chromolithograph, 1896
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Nepenthes'
(Tropical Pitcher Plant)
Plants are numbered with a key to the varieties below the image.
Antique English botanical chromolithograph.
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Flowering Spurge: 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "A. Esula seu Tithyinalus Africanus SpinosusCera Effigie, B. Esula seu Ti...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Genip Tree & Fruit: An 18th C. Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "A. Geniculata Wieder Kraief, B. Genipa seu Ganipaba". It is plate 531 in...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Cultivated Pea Plants: An 18th C. Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "a. Pisum Minus sine Putamine, b. Pisa Indicum". It is plate 819 in Weinma...
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Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
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Engraving, Mezzotint
Papaya and Moth Metamorphosis: 18th C. Hand-colored Engraving by Maria Merian
Located in Alamo, CA
This exquisite hand-colored 18th century folio-sized engraving of a papaya plant and moth metamorphosis is plate 64 from Maria Sibylla Merian's publication '...
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Early 18th Century Academic Still-life Prints
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Engraving
Pompelmus (Grapefruit): An Early 18th C. Hand-colored Engraving by Volckamer
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an early 18th century hand-colored copperplate engraving of the anatomy of grapefruit by Johann Christoph Volkhamer, entitled "Pompelmus (Grapefruit), Der Herra Sitz und Burg...
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Early 18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
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Engraving
Flowering Peppermint Plants: A 17th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Pulegium Cervinum, Pseudo Pulegium Struthium, Pulegium Regium", depicting flowering Peppermint, Weld and Pennyroyal plants respectively from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713.
This beautiful colorful engraving is printed on thin laid chain-linked paper. There are subtle creases in the right upper corner, very common with Besler's relating to the drying of the paper during its production. The right margin is thinner than the others. The print is otherwise in excellent condition with striking hand-coloring.
Basilius Besler (1561–1629) was an apothecary and botanist. He was curator of the Willibaldsburg Castle garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop...
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1640s Academic Still-life Prints
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Engraving
THORNTON. Group of Carnations
Located in London, GB
Magnificent print by Robert John Thornton; aquatint and mezzotint, printed in colour and finished by hand, heightened with gum arabic, from The Temple of Flora.
[London 1799]
First state.
Thornton was a prolific medical author and became a Doctor of Medicine at St Andrews University and licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians. However, he is best remembered for this great botanical publication The Temple of Flora, which formed a part of the larger work - New Illustration of the sexual system of Linnaeus.
In 1797, he also began advertising for subscribers to his planned natural history publishing venture, which eventually comprised of 30 folio botanical plates. For these remarkable illustrations, he engaged the services of the leading artists and engravers of his day: Sir William Beechey, James Opie, Henry Raeburn, John Russell, Philip Reinagle...
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1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
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Mezzotint, Aquatint, Handmade Paper, Engraving
Flowering Carnation Plant: 18th C. Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "Caryophyllus Anglicus flore". It is plate 326 in Weinmann's monumental pu...
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Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
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Engraving, Mezzotint
Still-Life Prints and Other Still-Life Wall Art for Sale on 1stDibs
As part of the wall decor in your living room, dining room or elsewhere, original still-life prints and other still-life wall art can look sophisticated alongside your well-curated decorative objects and can help set the mood in a space.
Still-life art, which includes work produced in media such as painting, photography, video and more, is a popular genre in Western art. However, the depiction of still life in color goes back to Ancient Egypt, where paintings on the interior walls of tombs portrayed the objects — such as food — that a person would take into the afterlife. Ancient Greek and Roman mosaics and pottery also often depicted food. Indeed, popular still-life prints often feature food, flowers or man-made objects. By definition, still-life art represents anything that is considered inanimate.
During the Middle Ages, the still life genre was adapted by artists who illustrated religious manuscripts. A common theme of these still-life paintings is the reminder that life is fleeting. This is especially true of vanitas, a kind of still life with roots in the Netherlands during the 17th century, which was built on themes such as death and decay and featured skulls and objects such as rotten fruit. In northern Europe during the 1600s, painters consulted botanical texts to accurately depict the flowers that were the subject of their work.
While early examples were primarily figurative, you can find still lifes that belong to different schools and styles of painting and printmaking, such as Cubism, Impressionism and contemporary art.
Leonardo da Vinci’s penchant for observing phenomena in nature and filling notebooks with drawings and notes helped him improve as an artist of still-life paintings. Vincent van Gogh, an artist who made a couple of the most expensive paintings ever sold, carried out rich experiments with color over the course of painting hundreds of still lifes, and we can argue that Campbell’s Soup Cans (1961–62) by Andy Warhol counts as still-life art.
Still-life art enthusiasts and collectors of Warhol prints have lots of reasons to love the cultural icon — when Warhol brought the image of a Campbell’s soup can out of the supermarket and into the studio, in 1961, he secured his legacy as a radical contemporary artist. After Warhol painted the soup cans, he realized that he could more readily achieve the mass-produced aesthetic he was seeking with silkscreens, also called screen-prints, and he began experimenting with silkscreening on canvas. He used the technique to print paintings of Coke bottles and dollar bills (both in 1962), as well as his treasured Brillo box sculptures (1964).
When shopping for a still-life print, think about how it makes you feel and how the artist chose to represent its subject. When buying any art for your home, choose pieces that you connect with. If you’re shopping online, read the description of the work to learn about the artist and check the price and shipping information. Make sure that the works you choose complement or relate to your overall theme and furniture style. Artwork can either fit into your room’s color scheme or serve as an accent piece. Introduce new textures to a space by choosing an oil still-life painting.
On 1stDibs, the collection of still-life prints and other still-life wall art includes works by Jonas Wood, Alex Katz, Nina Tsoriti and many more.