Scientific Illustration

heaveninawildflower:

Canada Lily  (Lilium canadense) before 1870 by Priscilla Susan Bury (1793–1869).

Wikimedia.

(via dendroica)

biomedicalephemera:

Hasselet’s Dendrobium - Dendrobium hasseletii

This orchid lives high in the hills and mossy, montane forests of the Malaysian peninsula, as well as in Sumatra and Java. It has sparse, thin leaves, on a sturdy bamboo-like stalk. The flowers bloom from the apex of the stalk, in late summer and early fall. Despite its elegance, this orchid is one of the more difficult keepers, and as such is not widespread in the gardening and botanical circles.

Collection d’orchidées: aquarelles originales. Unknown German author/artist, late 1800s.

nybg:

Exotic butterflies meet beautiful zinnias and dahlias. Color me smitten! ~AR

jenbekmanprojects:

Common Morpho (word / l8r) and Aphrodite Fritillary by Amy Jean Porter

What strange magic allowed us to conjure butterflies in December? Let us reassure you, collectors, that there’s nothing supernatural about Common Morpho (word / l8r) and Aphrodite Fritillary, our new editions by Amy Jean Porter, enchanted as they are. Summer’s delights can look like sorcery to off-season eyes. Read more.

Plantago major. by Library & Archives @ Royal Ontario Museum on Flickr.

Author: Mattioli, Pietro Andrea, 1500-1577.
Title: Herbarz : ginak Bylinár̆, welmi uz̆itec̆ny, a figůrami pieknymi y zr̆etedlnymi : podlé praweho a yako ziwého zrostu Bylin, ozdobeny, y také mnohymi a zkussenymi lekarzstwijmi rozhognieny, gessto takowy nikdá w ziadnem yazyku prwé wydan nebyl / od Doktora Petra Ondr̆ege Matthiola … nayprw w latinské rz̆ec̆í sepsaný, a gíz̆ … na cz̆eskau rz̆ec̆, od Doktora Thadeásse Hágka z Hágku, pr̆eloz̆ený … Pr̆i koncy pr̆idano kratke nauc̆enij a zpráwa, o rozlitzném distyllowánij a pálenij wod, s nĕkolíka pýckamí k takowému pálenij nález̆ítýmí, kteréz̆ netolíko apatekár̆uom, ále y gíným kter̆ijz̆ se w tom kochagij, dobr̆e se tressiti budau mocy …
Imprint: Wytisstieno w starém miestie Prasz̆ském : v Girzÿka Melantrycha z Awentynu, [1562]
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Call Number: QK41 .M38175 1562 1796 Rare Oversize

heaveninawildflower:

Hypericum minoribus

From Phytanthoza iconographia, sive, Conspectus aliquot millium, etc., Johann Weinmann, editor, various engravers. Ratisbon (Regensburg), Hieronymus Lentz, 1737-1745.

Source - The Antiquarium

overinformedblues:

antique book plate 338 Hippuris Vulgaris L. (Common Mare’s Tail)

brittanynicolesart:

This was from the second half of my Scientific Illustration assignment. We had to do two plants in water color. I messed up on the sunflower, but I’m putting it up here anyway.

heaveninawildflower:

Study of a Lesser Kestrel and Flowers ( second half of 16th century) by Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527–1593). Watercolour and gouache.

Web Gallery of Art via Wikimedia. 

heaveninawildflower:

Hibiscus rosa-sinensis (1880-1883) plate from Flora de Filipinas […] Gran edicion […] [Atlas II].[1 

Author - Francisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.).

Wikimedia

biomedicalephemera:

Aconitum variegatum - Wolf’s Bane, Monkshood

Aconitum is thought to be from the Greek ἀκόνιτον - “without struggle”. And it is without struggle that this plant causes death.

This beautiful perennial flower can be seen through the autumn months in forests and taigas in Europe, and is popular as an ornamental in gardens, lending color long after summer blooms have faded.

It can also be found in the traditional bikh poison, nepaline, in the writings of Ovid and Dioscorides, and in the bodies of murdered Borgia family members.

Flora Conspicua; a selection of the most ornamental flowering, hardy, exotic and indigenous trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants. Richard Morris, 1826.