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Art Subject: Plant
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...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Florals Rose
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Florals Rose
MEDIUM: Etching
SIGNED: Hand Signed
EDITION NUMBER: 99/350
MEASUREMENTS: 21.6" x 29.4"
Framed: 33" x 41"
YEAR: 1972
FRAMED: Yes
CON...
Category
1970s Surrealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali - Raspberry - Original Hand-Signed Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Raspberry - Original Hand-Signed Lithograph
1969
Dimensions: P. 57 x 37 cm
Sheet: 75 x 56 cm
Handsigned, EA (Epreuve d'Artiste)
Excellent Condition
Reference: Field...
Category
1960s Surrealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Dignimont, Le bouquet, Dignimont (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin de Rives paper. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Dignimont, 1946. Published by Éditi...
Category
1940s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
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...
Category
1640s Academic Still-life Prints
Materials
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...
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
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...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Flora Italiana ( Papavero Arancio Piene ) - large botanical still life photo
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original large format still life photograph from Linda Rosewall's botany study series "Flora Italiana", an intensely beautiful body of works exploring t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Duo of Blue Egyptian Palms, Botanical Diptych Cyanotype on Paper, Vintage Modern
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
Exclusive limited edition cyanotype diptych.
Details:
+ Title: Duo of Egyptian Palms
+ Year: 2024
+ Edition Size: 20
+ Medium: Cyanotype on Watercolor Paper...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Rag Paper
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: 1796-1829 (First-third seri...
Category
1790s Victorian Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving, Intaglio
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: No.1:I; No. 2:1; II & III.
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
Rosa Semperflorens Minima Miss Lawrence's Rose /// English Botanical Engraving
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: William Curtis (English, 1746-1799)
Title: "Rosa Semperflorens Minima Miss Lawrence's Rose" (Vol. 42, Plate 1762)
Portfolio: The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Display...
Category
1810s Victorian Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving, Intaglio
Yellow Tulips - Contemporary, 21st Century, Silkscreen, Limited Edition, Katz
By Alex Katz
Located in Zug, CH
Alex Katz, Yellow Tulips
Contemporary, 21st Century, Silkscreen, Limited Edition
Edition of 50 + 5 PP + 15 AP
122,5 x 195,7 cm (48.2 x 77 in.)
Signed and numbered on the front
In mint condition, as acquired from the publisher (Lococo)
PLEASE NOTE: Edition numbers could vary from the one shown in the images. All edition available come from the edition /50
The pictures are only for illustrative reasons, the work is offered unframed.
“Yellow Tulips” is part of the famous flower painting series by Alex Katz. The aesthetics of flowers such as flags, tulips, and roses has been continuously explored by the artist throughout his career.
"I generally start with oil sketches, because I can paint more quickly than I can draw. In this way I try to capture the sensation of what I’m doing, getting into the unconscious and creating the images, and then figuring out what I did." — Alex Katz
Katz has been painting flowers since the 1960s, often during his summer residencies in Maine. The cropped, flattened composition displays a debt to Japanese woodblock art printing. The American artist is well-known for his large paintings, whose bold simplicity and unmodulated colours are now seen as precursors of Pop Art.
"Yellow Tulips" is another of Katz's wonderfully bright exploration of nature and the landscape. He represents the volumes and colors created by the natural light, this artwork breathes nature, the radiant yellow delights the vision against the limitless black background.
The painting “Tulips 4” which this edition is based on belongs to the Collection of Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
ALEX KATZ
Alex Katz (American, born 1927) is the outstanding protagonist of figurative painting and one of our era's most acclaimed artists. In the late 1950s, the artist began to develop his mature style, characterized by elegance, simplicity, and stylized abstraction, which typifies his entire production. Alex Katz’s paintings...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
Calendula Flowers: An 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by B. Besler
Located in Alamo, CA
A hand-colored copper plate engraving depicting "Calendula prolifera; Calendula lutea flore pleno; Calendula lute medioruffa" flowers from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eys...
Category
Early 18th Century Academic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Red Geranium: 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 flowering Red Geraniums which is finished with hand-coloring. It is entitled "Geranium Anemones folio Af...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Yellow Rose - Etching by Giacomo Porzano - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Yellow Rose is a contemporary artwork realized by the Italian artist Giacomo Porzano (1925-2006) in 1972
Mixed colored etching.
Hand-signed and dated on the lower right. Edition 24...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Betel Nut Palm: 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 a flowering Betel Nut Palm plants, which is finished with hand-coloring. It is entitled "Fagus Fau Buch,...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
3 plates from The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars & their Strange Diet..
Located in Middletown, NY
Three 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: XLVIII; XLIX & L.
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
Weed Wreath (Framed)
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Weed Wreath" is an original artwork made from hand colored cut-plate intaglio on Somerset by Katie VanVliet. This piece is shipped in the pictured white frame and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Color, Intaglio
"Orchid" Portal Gallery Sausalito-Poster
Located in Clinton Township, MI
SHODO KAWARAZAKI (Japanese, 1889-1973)
Orchid, Portal Gallery Sausalito
Poster
28 x 20 in Unframed
Publishing Information: Portal Publications, Corte ...
Category
1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Boxthorn Japanese, Lyciym japonicum Plate 361
Located in Columbia, MO
Boxthorn Japanese, Lyciym japonicum Plate 361
1797
Hand-colored etching
Ed. 1st ed.
9 x 5.25 inches
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Bright Floral
By Marc Whitney
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
The paintings by California artist Marc Whitney capture the private, visual experiences that define our daily lives and validate moments that matter; a morning cup of coffee, the rumpled sheets across a bed, a simple vase...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Color
The Pond Diptych (2 hand-printed botanical cyanotypes, 24 x 18 inches each)
Located in Oakland, CA
This monotype was made by carefully arranging hundreds of individual blades of fresh-cut native Californian wild grass. The species of tall marsh grass is called Gray Rush or the lat...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Columnar-chived Ixia, Henry Andrews antique botanical flower engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Ixia Columnaris - Columnar-chived Ixia'
Native of Cape of Good Hope.
Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring from Henry Andrews' 'The Botanist's Repository', ...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Flowering Narcissus Lily: 18th Century Hand-colored Weinmann Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original antique colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving of a flowering Red Narcissus Lily plant, which is finished with hand-coloring. It is entitled "Narcissus In...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Purple Mushroom
Located in New York, NY
Burke Libaire is a Charleston based visual artist and designer. She began her career in New York City, translating her love of art and architecture into the world of interior design ...
Category
2010s Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Paper
Flowering Jasmine and Laurel Plants: A Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper-plate engraving entitled "Gelsiminum Catalonicum, Mairana Latifollia, Euphasiaramosa Pratensis Flore Albo, Euphasia Minus Ramosa Flore Excereruleo Purpurascente", depicting flowering Jasmine, Mountain Laurel...
Category
1710s Academic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Prickly Viper's Bugloss Henry Andrews antique botanical flower Echium engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Echium Ferocissimum - Prickly Viper's Bugloss'
Native of Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.
Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring from Henry Andrews' 'The Bot...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Cactus & Rose of Jericho Plants: A Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
A hand-colored copper plate engraving depicting flowering "Melocactos" (Turk's Cap Cactus or Mother-in-law's Cushion), "Rosa Hiericontea aperta" (Rose of Jericho Unfolded), "Rosa Hie...
Category
Early 18th Century Academic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Apocynum androsamifolium - French botanical flower engraving by Bessa, c1830
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Apocynum androsamifolium' (Fly-trap dogbane or spreading dogbane)
Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring.
From 'Herbier general de l'amateur' by Jean Louis A...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
A 19th Century Curtis Hand-colored Engraving of a Flowering Clerodendrum Plant
Located in Alamo, CA
This early 19th century hand-colored double fold-out botanical engraving is entitled "Clerodendrum Macrophyllum" (Broad-Leaved Clerodendrum), plate 2356, published in London in 1824 ...
Category
1820s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Salvia cana (Woolly Sage) /// Botanical Botany Flowers Plants Science Art Print
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Nathaniel Wallich (Danish, 1786-1854)
Title: "Salvia cana (Woolly Sage)" (Plate 116)
Portfolio: Plantae Asiaticae Rariores; or, Descriptions and Figures of a Select Number of Unpublished East Indian Plants
Year: 1830-1832
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph on J. Whatman paper
Limited edition: 254
Printer: Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co., London, UK
Publisher: Richard Taylor for Treuttel & Würtz, London, UK
Reference: Nissen BBI No. 2099; Pritzel No. 9957; Stafleu-Cowan No. 16583; Dunthorne No. 326
Sheet size: 21.13" x 14.25"
Condition: Some scattered tiny handling creases to sheet. Has been professionally stored away for decades. In excellent condition with strong colors
Rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Aspen, CO. Lithography by Maltese artist...
Category
1830s Victorian Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
June Wild Grass (hand-printed botanical cyanotype, 18 x 36 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
This long narrow monotype was made by carefully arranging hundreds of individual blades of fresh-cut native Californian wild grass. The species of tall marsh grass is called Gray Rus...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
QUIET ZONE Signed Lithograph, Surreal Mini Landscape, Jingle Bell, Trees
Located in Union City, NJ
QUIET ZONE is a hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the American surrealist artist Fanny Brennan, created using traditional hand lithography techniques printed on archival Arche...
Category
1990s Surrealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Banana Plants: 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 double page engraving of banana plants, which is finished with hand-coloring. It is entitled "Banana 1. Musa,...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Wild Mugwort (hand-printed botanical cyanotype, 24 x 12 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is the silhouette of wild mugwort (artemisia) or chrysanthemum weed which grows in the woods in northern California. It is a fragrant herb that smells similar to sage.
Though t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Flowering Cotton Plant: 18th Century Hand-colored Weinmann Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This striking hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving is entitled "Gnaphalium, Gossypium (Cotton Plant)". It is plate 551 in Johann Weinmann's monumental publication "Phy...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Calothamnus Villosa, 19th century Australian native botanical engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Calothamnus Villosa - Villous Calothamnus'
Original engraving with original hand-colouring by S Watts After M Hart, 1827.
Native plant of Australia.
...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Panicum sanguinale, from "Flora Londinensis..."
Located in Houston, TX
Antique hand colored engraving of grass or Panicum Sanguinale by W.Curtis, circa 1820. Artwork was intended to be actual size of specimen.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a w...
Category
1820s Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Hand-colored 1834 Joseph Paxton Botanical Engraving of Yellow Trumpet Flowers
By Joseph Paxton
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored engraving of yellow trumpet flowers from Sir Joseph Paxton's (1803-1865) "Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants", published in 1834. This engravi...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Flower Vase, Red Camellia, white plum, white daffodils and orchids
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Flower Vase, Red Camellia, white plum, white daffodils and orchids
Color woodcut, c. 1950
Signed "B. Ohno" (see photo)
Seal: Bakufu (see photo)
Series: Flowers of the Four Seasons
Ca...
Category
1950s Other Art Style Still-life Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Impatiens puberula (Soft Pink Balsam) /// Antique Botanical Flowers Plant Print
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Nathaniel Wallich (Danish, 1786-1854)
Title: "Impatiens puberula (Soft Pink Balsam)" (Plate 193)
Portfolio: Plantae Asiaticae Rariores; or, Descriptions and Figures of a Select Number of Unpublished East Indian Plants
Year: 1830-1832
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph on J. Whatman paper
Limited edition: 254
Printer: Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co., London, UK
Publisher: Richard Taylor for Treuttel & Würtz, London, UK
Reference: Nissen BBI No. 2099; Pritzel No. 9957; Stafleu-Cowan No. 16583; Dunthorne No. 326
Sheet size: 21.13" x 14.13"
Condition: Has been professionally stored away for decades. In excellent condition with strong colors
Rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Aspen, CO. Lithography by Maltese artist...
Category
1830s Victorian Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Rose, from Recent Etchings II
Located in San Francisco, CA
Framed: 39 3/8 x 30 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches, 3/4 inch face, Wood frame
Wayne Thiebaud was born Mesa, Arizona in 1920, and his family soon moved to Los Angeles in 1921. In high school he ...
Category
1970s Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Flowering Houseleek Plant: A 19th C. Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by Curtis
Located in Alamo, CA
This early 19th century hand-colored double fold-out botanical engraving is entitled "Sempervivum Glutinosum" (Clammy Houseleek), plate 1963, published in London in 1818 in William C...
Category
1810s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Flowers 6, Modern Lithograph by Ira Moskowitz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Flowers 6, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 75, Size: 29.5 in. x 21 in. (74.93 cm x 53.34...
Category
1970s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Euphorbia (Spurge) /// Antique Botanical Botany Plants Engraving Buffon Science
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (French, 1707-1788)
Title: "Euphorbia (Spurge)" (Dodecandrie, Trigynie, Plate 411)
Portfolio: Histoire Naturelle
Year: 1749-1789
Medium...
Category
1740s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving, Laid Paper, Intaglio
THORNTON. The Roses
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 Doctor of Medicine, practicing 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 and others as painters; Francesco Bartolozzi, Richard Earlom and John Landseer. Most of the images were painted by Peter Charles Henderson and Philip Reinagle.
These botanical illustrations are unique as they were the first flower prints with landscape backgrounds, depicting the natural habitat of the plant. The life-size flowers stand out dramatically and the whole effect is startlingly modern. Thornton's announced intention was to make this work the most magnificent tribute ever paid to the famous Swedish botanist Linnaeus by illustrating his Sexual System with the finest possible prints. All these were engraved on a larger scale than anything which had hitherto appeared and then were printed in colour, an expensive and uncommon method in England at this time. A brilliant effect.
This rare and celebrated plate of the Roses...
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint, Handmade Paper, Engraving
Acer & Carduus - 18th century Weinmann botanical plant flower engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Acarna Theophrasti' and 'Acer Campestre minus'
Mezzotint printed in colours. Circa 1740.
From Johann W Weinmann's Phytanthoza Iconographia, published in Regensburg 1737-45. The fi...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Purple Bouquet of Flowers
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Bernard Buffet
Title: The Purple Bouquet of Flowers
Portfolio: Bernard Buffet Lithographs 1952-1966
Medium: Lithograph
Year: 1968
Ed...
Category
1960s Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Antirrhinum Orontium - 18th century Weinmann botanical plant flower engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Antirrhinum Orontium'
Mezzotint printed in colours. Circa 1740.
From Johann W Weinmann's Phytanthoza Iconographia, published in Regensburg 1737-45. The first botanical series to u...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Mark A Pearce, Orchard Stripes, Contemporary Linocut Print, Bright Landscape Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Mark A Pearce
Orchard Stripes
Limited Edition Linocut Print
Edition of 42
Artwork Size: H 40cm x W 40cm x D 0.5cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that in situ images are purely an indicati...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Linocut
V's Vase, by Yuji Hiratsuka
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled, and numbered from the edition of 15. Japanese still life with vase and flowers on a table. While the images have some resemblance t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Interior Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Composition - Original Lithograph after George Braque - 1982
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is a colored lithograph realized after George Braque by Atelier Mourlot..
The artwork is from A même la pierre, Fernand Mourlot Lithogra...
Category
1980s Cubist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Round-leaved Pellaea, antique fern botanical plant lithograph print, 1859
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Antique 19th century fern lithograph with original hand-colouring , 1859, after Walter Hood Fitch.
310mm by 250mm (sheet)
Walter Hood Fitch was one of the...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Fever Nut Plant "Ban Caretti": A 17th Century Engraving by Hendrik van Rheede
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a 17th century engraving of a fever or bonduc nut plant entitled "Ban Caretti" by Hendrik van Rheede tot Drakenstein, plate 20 from his 'Hortus Indi...
Category
Late 17th Century Naturalistic Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
Cape Atragene, Henry Andrews antique botanical pink flower engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Atragene Capensis - Cape Atragene'
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring from Henry Andrews' 'The Botanist's Repository', 1...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Burtonia Villosa, antique botanical Australian flower lithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Burtonia Villosa - Villous Burtonia'
Botanical lithograph of a Western Australian native plant with original hand-colouring , 1848, by Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892).
235mm by 145m...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Calla, by Mark Jenkins
By Mark Jenkins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and numbered from an edition of 25, this simple elegant image captures the grace of a single Calla Lilly against a black background.
Based in San Francisco, Mark Jenkins has ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Digital Pigment
