The spring makes me think of flowers and tropical botanicals. Whereas for fall, I think of more woodland vintage botanical prints.
Pine cones and acorns make me think of fall and I love to decorate my home with these vintage botanical images. Also living in the Northern Hemisphere, woodland foliage is the one I’m most used to.
I think a gallery wall of botanical prints can look amazing on the living room wall. If you are looking for some vintage botanical print gallery wall inspiration you should check out this post from the Painted Hive.
Or you can craft with these images and make some gorgeous bunting with the woodland prints to decorate your home for fall. Like this bunting from fleaingFrance.com.
Free Woodland Vintage Botanical Prints For Fall
The PDF downloaded vintage botanical prints will be of a higher resolution than the images below.
To download the prints just click on the highlighted title link and a PDF of the botanical print will automatically download to your device. For illustrations of whole trees check out the stunning tree posters of Larousse.
Acorns and Oaks
Acorns are a great symbol of autumn and fall. It’s not just the squirrels that eat them in the past they were an important food source for Native American Indians.
The acorn was a popular motif in Roman architecture. Its also a common symbol in Scandinavian art and used as an adornment on furniture, jewelry and cutlery. It also appears on finials at many churches including Westminster Abbey.
1.White Oak – Histoire des arbres forestiers de l’Amérique (1812)
2. Black Jack Oak – Histoire des arbres forestiers de l’Amérique (1812)
3. Grey Oak – Histoire des arbres forestiers de l’Amérique (1812)
4. Austrian Oak – Traite des arbres forestiers (1824)
5. Chestnut White Oak – Histoire des arbres forestiers de l’Amérique (1812)
Pine, fir, conifer and spruces
There are lots of different types of conifer/pine trees. These pine cones are often collected and used for home decorations and wreaths. There are hundreds of arts and crafts on pinterest using pine cones. They also make for great vintage botanical prints.
6. Norwegian Spruce – Billeder af nordens flora 1917
This is probably one of the most common spruces to be used as Christmas trees.
7. Brazilian Pine – 1824
Even though this isn’t a typical shape for a pine cone this has to be one of my favourite vintage pine cone drawings.
8. Longleaf (Indian) Pine – 1824
9. Stone Pine – 1824
Here’s another close-up illustration of the Stone Pine cone.
10. Pitch Pine -1824
There are some wonderful woodland leaf prints here.
You might want to check out these beautiful free vintage flower pictures to download.
Thank you so much for providing these! They are beautiful. I just tried printing the Austrian oak but it says the URL is broken. Am I doing something wrong?
Thank you!
Thank you, I have fixed the link so the download should work now.
HI Claire,
Is it possible to fix the link for the Austrian Oak? I cannot open the site. Do you have any companions to this print? I am looking for the paler background and soft colors of this oak.
Thanks,
Lee
Sorry about the broken link, it has been fixed now.
Thank you for these
You’re welcome, thank you 😊
I cannot access the download feature for the “grey oak” … can you email me the image file?
Thanks for sharing all these beautiful vintage prints!
Larlyn
The link to grey oak has been fixed now, you should be able to download it.
Thank you so much for this. This is amazing!
Thank you, I’m glad you enjoy them.
My granddaughter and I make nature journals that we sell at church bazaars and markets. Are we allowed to use these images? Thank you.
Yes the images are copyright free So you can use them how you like.
Love these, thank you!
Thank you, you’re welcome.