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 |
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 (images)
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Botanical Illustrations
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UK - LONDON
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AUSTRALIA
See also Flowering Plants and Ferns of New South Wales Plates at the University of Sydney |
JAPAN
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