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Images of Botanical and Horticultural IllustrationsAntiquity

Herbal of DioscoridesDrawings from the 5th century

Vigna sinesis (cowpea) 512 CE. Source: Arber (1912).

Ferula, (Codex Vindoboensis, Juliana Ani-cia, 512 CE). Source: Arber (1912).

Lady’s bedstraw (Galium), Cranesbill (Erodium), and Geranium, 7th century. Source: Raphael (1979).

Winter Cherry (Physalis) and Mulleins (Verbas-cum). Codex Neopolitanus, 7th century. Source: Raphael (1979).

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Wild strawberry, Jacques Le Moyne de Morques (1533–1588) water color.

Borage (Borago officina-lis). Jacques Le Moyne de Morques (1533–1588) water color.

Herbal and Bestiary, England (1510–1520) foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) and fennel (Faeniculum vulgare).

Italian translation of Serapion the younger, 800 CE, 1390–1400. Anonymous artist. grape (Vitis vinifera).

Pfl anzenbuch, Charlemagne and carline thistle (Carlina acaulis). An angel dispatched by God shoots an arrow into the plant to heal the king of plague.

12th century Anglo-Norman herbal (Apuleis Platonicus) Artemesia.

Corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas). Beneditto Rinio, Liber de Simplicibus 1419.

Hand Illustrated Herbal Manuscripts

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Ornithogalum umbella-tum, star-of-Bethlehem, and other plants.

Bush cranberry, Viburam opulus.Coix lacryma-jobe (job’s tears)

Madonna lily (Lilium candidum).

Dyers greenwood (Genista tinctorea) and oak (Quercus robur).

Theoretical basis of ramifi cation.

Skull and onions. Salvia offi cinalis (Nature painting by undercoating leaf with carbon coating).

Leonardo de Vinci (1452–1519)

Comparison of peach seed germination and vascularization of heart and liver.

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Sunflower, Flos solis major. The greater Sun fl oure. Gerard 1633.

Sunfl ower, Flos solis minor. The lesser Sunne fl oure. Ge-rard 1633.

Iris “Acorus,” Iris pseudacorus L., Yellow-fl ag, Herbarius zu Teutsch, Mainz, 1485.

Dragon tree (from Canary Island) Gerard 1597.

Pumkin (Pepo maximus rotun-dus. The great round Pompion). Gerard 1633.

Fragaria and Fragasubalba. White Straw-berries. Gerard 1633.

Wood Block Botanical Illustrations

Illustration from frontpiece of The Herball of John Gerard (1633) augmentation by Thomas Johnston.

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Citrons Apricots

Fruit Cultivar Paintings of Bartolomeo Bimbi (1648–1729)

Renaissance

Vincenzo Campi, Fruit seller, 1580.

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Kawahara Keiga, wisteria, 1842. Inumi Yokusai, Mainel of Peru (Mirabilis jalopa), 1874.

Nehemiah Grew The Anatomy of Plants, 1682.

Knight’s Horticultural Papers. Plate I.

Japanese Woodcuts

Anatomical botanical illustrations based on the Microscope

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Peirre-Joseph Redoute (1759–1840), Canteberry bells, 1787.

Peirre-Joseph Redoute (1759–1840), poppy, 1827.

Samuel Halden, orchid, 1844.

Parrot tulip, Georg Dionysus Ehret, Celebrations of the Beauty of Plants, 1744.

Georg Dionysus Ehret, Lily, 1740s.

Georg Dionysus Ehret, glade wil-low and morning glory, 1748.

Jeon Louis Prevost, Bouquet- paeones, poppy, and foxglove, 1805.

18th Century Illustrations

Pierre-Joseph Redoute (1759–1840), Bird of paradise, 1802.

John Miller, saffron crocus, 1770.

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Peach, 1966. Carnation, 1969.

Fancy pansies, Floral Magazine, 1872.

Perfect carnation, US plant pat-ent illustration, 1850.

James Andrew, dahlia, Floral Magazine, 1862.

Pistachia, 1963.

19th Century American Horticultural Illustrations

Patent Illustrations

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Tunneling electron photograph (Imaging on the atomic level).

Computer image, Royal Heins, Michigan State Uni-versity.

Anne Atkins, (1799–1871), dan-delion, Cyanotype print.

Roger Phillip, wild flowers field guide photograph, 1977.

Bradbury and Evans, Nature Prints (Plant impressions).

Tomato scanning electron photograph. Computer image, Univ. of Illinois.

Nature Prints, Photography, and Computer Images