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]
The Shin-Bijutsukai was a turn of the century (1901-1902) design magazine full of wonderful vintage Japanese art prints. The wonderful designs in the magazine were from the best Japanese artists at the time. All the prints are original Japanese woodblock prints. They reflected aspects of Japanese life from everyday surroundings,[Read more]
In the next street to me, there are two gorgeous magnolia trees that are in bloom at the moment. They look and smell so beautiful that it has inspired me to curate this collection of vintage magnolia prints. Like with many other flowers such as daffodils and tulips, magnolias are[Read more]
A collection of free Pierre-Joseph Redoute flower prints from his book “Choix des plus belles fleurs et de quelques branches des plus beaux fruits: Dédié les princesses Louise et Marie d’Orléans” The title of this 1827 book translates as “Choice of the most beautiful flowers and some branches of the[Read more]
The current trend for tropical prints in interiors really appeals to me. That’s why I have curated this cool collection of tropical palm tree illustrations. I don’t know if my love of tropical plant prints because I was actually born and grew up in the tropics themselves. Or it’s because[Read more]