Besides pine trees, the holy, and the ivy, there are other plants one associates with Christmas. Here I’ve curated some vintage Christmas flower illustrations including poinsettia drawings Poinsettias are probably the most popular of all the Christmas flowers. Over 35 million of them are sold in the US every year.[Read more]
These are a collection of fabulous late 19th century French natural history educational Deyrolle Posters. I love the old school educational charts that used to hang on the walls in the classrooms. I’ve already shared the stunning educational geography posters of Yaggy. Here, I’ve curated some of the amazing natural[Read more]
These beautiful vintage orchid prints and drawings are the latest collection of botanical illustrations to add to the collection of flower prints on Pictureboxblue. This collection already includes the flower species such as roses, peonies, and poppies plus many more. Orchids are considered some of the most beautiful and mysterious[Read more]
Whenever I go for a walk in the woods I can’t help pocketing a few pine cones from the forest floor. I just love a pine cone and I thought it would be fun to curate a collection of wonderful botanical pine cone drawings and prints. Pine cones are very[Read more]
A curated collection of vintage fungi and mushroom drawings from the book “Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms” by James Sowerby (1809). James Sowerby was an English naturalist, illustrator, and mineralogist. He studied art at the Royal Acadamy in London in the late 18th Century. James started off his artistic career[Read more]
I am a big fan of the identification charts and posters of Adolphe Millot. This is my latest collection of his, which includes the fruit and vegetable prints. Adolphe Philippe Millot was a French naturalist and artist who illustrated many of the natural history sections of the Larousse collection of Illustrated Dictionaries. He[Read more]
An amazing collection of avocado drawings and watercolor paintings from the US Department of Agriculture Pomological watercolor collection. There are over 7500 antique fruit watercolors and drawings in the Pomological collection. The paintings were completed between the years 1886 and 1942, by around five dozen artists. Amazingly over half of[Read more]
All these wonderful tropical house plant drawings are from the book with a rather lengthy title. ” New and rare beautiful-leaved plants: containing illustrations and descriptions of the most ornamental-foliage plants not hitherto noticed in any work on the subject.” The book was written by Shirley Hibberd and Benjamin Fawcett in 1870.[Read more]