This page provides links to places online
where you can see images of botanical art produced over the centuries.
where you can see images of botanical art produced over the centuries.
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It's impossible to get oneself physically to all the places where botanical art is archived - although some do try!
However digitisation of botanical images and their storage in online archives enables many students and fans of botanical art to access many more examples of the different ways plants have been portrayed over the centuries |
Some of the databases listed below belong to organisations specifically concerned with Botanical Art. Others archive images in systematic ways.
See also the links in the pages devoted to Herbals and Florilegia |
Image Databases maintained by Botanical Art Specialists
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Botanicus
a freely accessible portal to historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library. It includes 1,964 titles (books/journals) in 7,176 volumes The BioDiversity Heritage Library The Biodiversity Image Library - on Flickr (Albums) The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.” |
Catalogue of the Botanical Art Collection at the Hunt Institute
the searchable database includes includes text records c. 30,000 original works - paintings (mostly watercolors), drawings and original prints - dating from the Renaissance onward. It's mainly organised by the artists' surnames but also includes a comprehensive taxonomic index. The image records includes size and media and support used. Plantillustrations
One man's effort to ensure that botanical images no longer covered by copyright are accessible within the public domain. The database can be found at plantillustrations.org / plantgenera.org / botanicalillustrations.org. Choose the device mode for viewing at the top. |
Famous botanical art publications - on Wikipedia
Wikimedia Commons
All the links below relate to categories of botanical art and illustration which can be found online:
- on Wikimedia Commons
- or via the Flickr albums of the Biodiversity Heritage Library
Famous botanical art publications (images)
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Apples and melons by Basilius Besler in Hortus Eystettensis
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Botanical Illustrations
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Hortus Eystettensis | Plate: 79 Late white tulip, Golden garlic, Mountain garlic | 1613
By Basilius Besler (1561-1629) via Wikimedia Commons
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Flora associated with geographical areas
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UK - LONDON
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Flora Londinensis - Leontodon Taraxacum Dandelion
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AUSTRALIA
See also Flowering Plants and Ferns of New South Wales Plates at the University of Sydney |
Eucalyptus Robusta by Edward Minchen (1862-1913)
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INDIA
- Flora Indica - a Kew website funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation contains Roxburgh's 3 volume text-only Flora Indica published posthumously in 1832, PLUS the illustrations he commissioned of most of the plants he described.
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JAPAN
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Icones of Japanese algae..
Tokyo,Kazamashobo[1907-1942].
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1250286
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Plants
- Category: Botanical illustrations by taxon
- Category:Vilmorin-Andrieux, Les plantes potagres 1904 This category is intended to include all images from Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie, 1904.
Other Online Botanical Art History Sites
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Bauer initially used the Feldsberg colour chart, with at least 273 colours. By the time he got to Australia in 1801 to draw the flora and fauna on the eastern side of the continent, he had polished the colour-coding system. It could be used in the field so effectively that the drawings he ‘finished’ more than 10 years later are still the best-ever drawn of Australian plants. This colour code extended to a palette range of up to 1000 colours. |