This page provides links to places online
​where you can see images of botanical art produced over the centuries.  

It's impossible to get oneself physically to all the places where botanical art is archived - although some do try!
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​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. 
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​See also the links in the pages devoted to Herbals and Florilegia

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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.

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Famous botanical art publications - on Wikipedia
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• List of florilegia and botanical codices

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Wikimedia Commons
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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

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Famous botanical art publications (images)
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• ​Category: Herbal
• This category has the following subcategories[+] De materia medica‎ (2 C, 17 F)[] Vienna Dioscurides‎ (1 P, 48 F)[+] Herbal manuscripts‎ (3 C, 3 F)[] Medicina antiqua (Cod. Vind. 93)‎ (12 F)[] Naples Dioscurides‎ (3 F)
• Category: De historia stirpium commentarii insignes by Leonart Fuchs et al
• Category: Hortus Eystettensis by Basilus Besler
• Category: Hooker's Icones Plantarum
• Category: Curtis's Botanical Magazine
  The category is for volumes from The Botanical Magazine (Volume 1 - 14, 1787-1800), which continues as Curtis's Botanical Magazine (Volume 15 and later, 1801 to the present day).
• Category: Botanical illustrations from Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary ​
• Category: Japanese Herbal 17th Century

Apples and melons by Basilius Besler in Hortus Eystettensis

Botanical Illustrations
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• Category: Botanical illustrations
• Category: Botanical Illustrations by Taxon - including 338 different taxon in total
• Category:Botanical illustrations in Kloster Michelsberg / Bamberg 
  These illustrations are painted at the ceiling of Kloster Michelsberg in Bamberg

Botanical illustrators 
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• Category: Botanical illustrators
• Category: Botanical illustrations by illustrator

Botanists
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• ​Category: Joseph Dalton Hooker Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, FRS (30 June 1817 - 10 December 1911) was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend.

Hortus Eystettensis | Plate: 79 Late white tulip, Golden garlic, Mountain garlic | 1613 By Basilius Besler (1561-1629) via Wikimedia Commons

Flora associated with geographical areas

UK - LONDON

• Category: Flora Londinensis, or, Plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London​
• Flora Londinensis - Biodiversity Heritage Library Flickr Album) - lFlora Londinensis, or, Plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London : with their places of growth, and times of flowering, their several names according to Linnæus and other authors : with a particular description of each plant in Latin and English : to which are added, their several uses in medicine, agriculture, rural œconomy and other arts ByCurtis, William, 1746-1799 
  
  Darton, William, 1755-1819 
  Edwards, Sydenham, 1768-1819 
  Kilburn, William, 1745-1818 
  Sansom, Francis, acti-e 17 
  Sowerby, James, 1757-1822 
  White, Benjamin, acti-e 17 
  White, Benjamin, 1879-

Flora Londinensis - Leontodon Taraxacum Dandelion

AUSTRALIA

• Category: Forest Flora of New South Wales - illustrations by Lilian Margaret Flockton (1861-1953) and Ethel Anna King (1879-1939)
• Category: Flowering Plants and Ferns of New South Wales 

See also Flowering Plants and Ferns of New South Wales Plates at the University of Sydney

Eucalyptus Robusta by Edward Minchen (1862-1913)

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. 

JAPAN

• Icones of Japanese algae v.4 - Icones of Japanese algae v.4
  Tokyo, Kazamashobo [1907-1942], Biodiversity Heritage Library Flickr Album

Icones of Japanese algae.. Tokyo,Kazamashobo[1907-1942]. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1250286

Plants
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• 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. 

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Other Online Botanical Art History Sites
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• Botanical Illustration - maintained by an art teacher in the USA
• Antiquariaat Junk - the website of a Dutch bookseller of fine Antiquarian Natural History Books, including handcoloured books on Flowers, Herbals, and Botanical Classics - many of which have been partially digitized

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