Scientific Illustration

stilllifequickheart:

Mary Vaux Walcott
Wild Pineapple
1921

stilllifequickheart:

Mary Vaux Walcott

Wild Pineapple

1921

Tagged: art watercolor 1920s wild pineapple botanical Mary Vaux Walcott

Posted on February 5, 2013 via still life quick heart with 128 notes

stilllifequickheart:

Louis Claude Noisette
Plums
1821

stilllifequickheart:

Louis Claude Noisette

Plums

1821

Tagged: art botanical engraving 19th century plums

Posted on February 5, 2013 via still life quick heart with 118 notes

heaveninawildflower:

Georgius Dionysius Ehret. Plantae et papiliones rariores (1748).

http://imgbase-scd-ulp.u-strasbg.fr/displayimage.php?pos=-8262

Tagged: botanical illustration botany botanical Georgius Dionysius Ehret Georg Ehret plant Illustration butterfly 1700's 18th century

Posted on January 27, 2013 via Heaveninawildflower with 80 notes

heaveninawildflower:

Vanilla Phalaenopis taken from

‘Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe’ (1867-1868).

Louis van Houtte (1810–1876)

Scan of original book from Botanicus Wikimedia.

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Tagged: botanical illustration botany botanical illustration floral floral art Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe Louis van Houtte 1800's 19th century garden vanilla

Posted on January 27, 2013 via Heaveninawildflower with 132 notes

deadsunflower:

Jacopo Ligozzi, Botanical Specimen (Motherwort or “Leonurus cardiaca”), 1577–91. Brush with watercolor and gouache on vellum. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (via The Metropolitan Museum of Art).

(via dreamssoreal)

Tagged: motherwort Leonurus cardiaca herbs herbalism botanical

Posted on January 24, 2013 via Nothing is static. Everything is falling apart. with 268 notes

Source: metmuseum.org

stilllifequickheart:

Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm
Pepper
1810