This is a collection of beautiful copyright-free vintage flower illustrations and drawings.
Naturalists have been painting beautiful Botanical floral illustration since the time of the Greeks. Being a Botanical illustrator was a respected profession in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Many of these wonderful flower illustrations are still have relevance and importance with today’s botanists.
Many of these vintage flower drawings were like works of art in themselves. Here is a collection of the best flower prints on Pictureboxblue, from individual flowers such as roses, sunflowers, peonies and tulips to seed packets and artistic floral still lifes by the Dutch Masters.
Beautiful Vintage Floral Art
All the flowers prints are in the public domain so you are free to download and print them out and use them however you want. Whether it is to frame and great a beautiful gallery wall in your home or to use the flower illustrations in your craft and DIYs.
I have a friend who is a professional floral textile designer and she uses vintage flower illustrations for reference and inspiration with her new paintings. Or perhaps you are like me and just like looking at beautiful drawings and pictures.
All the floral prints, drawings and illustrations have been featured on Pictureboxblue. I have just curated them in one convenient location. This list will grow as more vintage floral art is published on the site.
I suggest you pin or bookmark the page and revisit it later to see what is new. If you want to look at your own flower illustrations, check out my guide to easy cherry blossom drawings and hibiscus how to draw posts.
A wonderful collection of vintage rose paintings. Including some from one of the most famous Botanical artists of the 19th Century, Pierre-Joseph Redouté.
A showy flower that comes in lots of colours and is the state flower of Hawaii.
One of my favourite flowers and one that features regularly in oriental designs the peony. In China the peony is known as the king of flowers.
Every time I say the word tulip I immediately think of Amsterdam and Holland. The two are just so intricately linked. They come in loads of colours and some are even variegated.
There is nothing more impressive than a field of sunflowers. I spent a weekend driving across the French countryside and every time I came across a field of sunflowers it really made me smile.
These wonderful floral charts by the famous French naturalist Adlophe Millot are full of fabulous vintage flower illustrations. The charts are separated into annuals and biannual, perennial and tree and shrub flowers.
These are a beautiful collection of flowers that you would associate with Christmas. There are prints of poinsettias, amaryllis, Christmas roses and Christmas cacti.
Not only a beautiful flower but the plant also produces the tastiest of fruits.
Arguably one of the best botanical flower painters ever Pierre Joseph Redoute.
Considered to be one of the most popular houseplants, its easy to see why with such beautiful flowers.
A dark and moody collection of beautiful still life flower paintings by the 17th Century Dutch Masters.
A stunning collection of art nouveau style vintage flower illustrations by Maurice Pillard Verneuil. Many of these art nouveau illustrations have been turned into decorative wall paper and prints.
A wonderful collection of vintage floral illustrations from old flower seed packets.
A wonderful collection of vintage poppies illustrations. From the common poppy to the scarlet and oriental poppy.
Considered to be the first sign of spring, daffodils.
There are 15 beautiful vintage magnolia floral prints in this collection.
A beautiful collection of over 20 botanical illustrations and drawing of true lilies. The post includes som wonderful lily seed packet paintings.
A beautiful collection of Cherry blossom drawings which also includes a collection of vitnage Japanaese labels.
A collection of wonderful rose illustrations from vintage gardening catalogs.
A wonderful collection of floral textile and wallpaper patterns inspired by nature by the famous designer William Morris.
A wonderful collection of tropical botanical illustrations including many orchids by the famous botanist John Lindley,
Amazing facts and prints of this stunning wonder of the botanical world, the giant water lily.
A stuning collection of vintage floral prints from this rare and important botanical book.
Irises of various colours and sizes. There are 40 beautiful Japanese paintings.
I’ve used some wonderful vintage flower images in a nature-inspired decoupage paper mache bowl.
You might also want to check out some of the amazing vintage botanical prints.
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Pam
Thursday 10th of October 2019
Wow, these are gorgeous! You always share such wonderful printables. I've featured these today at Thursday Favorite Things and pinned it. Thanks for sharing!
claire
Friday 11th of October 2019
Thank you, I just love finding beautiful free images.
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Susan
Monday 7th of October 2019
What a lovely collection! Pinning because I know I"ll come back to this. Thank you for compiling!
claire
Monday 7th of October 2019
Thank you, I just love vintage flower paintings.