Here are 88 more! Just for you--only this time the coloration's and fonts are historically accurate! These come to us from Plant Curator, an online resource for all of us herbalists. They have multiple series of these Vintage Botanical Prints as well as backgrounds and Facebook Cover images to choose from. My all time favorite resource!
88 free vintage medicinal plant illustrations
Franz Eugen Köhler’s Medizinal-Pflanzen or Medicinal Plants was published in 1887 in Germany. It comes in four volumes and includes over 300 detailed, beautiful, botanical illustrations of plants. Below we supply 88 from Volume 1. The book was written by Kohler but the pictures were drawn by artists L. Müeller and C.F. Schmidt. They were then rendered in chromolithography by a certain K. Gunther. Chromolithography was the number one technique for printing in colour for around a decade between the mid-18th and 19th Centuries. This process required a skilled lithographer to draw the original painting, by hand, in reverse, onto limestone slabs and later zinc plates. They would then somehow ink this with a colour and use that to print onto paper. They then repeated this for all the other colours they needed, using a different stone for each one. The colours would overprint each other until the original image was recreated. What a faff. Printing methods started to get a little easier after this one. Wikipedia has a greattimeline of the History of Printing.
It is 75 years since the death of the author which in most of Europe denotes it is the Public Domain. That means all images are copyright free.
The original species title is written below exactly as it is printed on the picture. Where we think the currently accepted name differs significantly for the plant we have checked it against The Catalogue of Life or The Plant List and have written it in brackets. The common or vernacular name or names comes after that.
Now take a look at what to do with all of these...in your spare time of course. Clicking on each photo below will take you to the original post. Pillows, coasters or Wedding announcements needed?
Use the glass pane door that you've been saving up as a unique frame!
Group them together in a series with simple frames....
Print them off large or small!!!
So many beautiful things one can do with a botanical print! We are just about to make our move closer to Eagle River and I'll have loads of walls to fill. You never know who's walls will be next! Enjoy the day--bee well, bee happy and above all, bee blessed!
Sandy
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