If flowers and foliage can be said to speak, it is surely through the voice of botanical illustrators. Our Painted Botanicals journals feature images of orchids, wisteria, lilies and daisies, rendered by some of the finest illustrators in the history of the field.

Blooming Wisteria

Original Artwork: Wisteria Consequana from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
Era: mid-1800s
Region: England

Brazilian Orchid

Original Artwork: Cattleya Labiata from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
Era: Mid-1800s
Region: England

Gloriosa Lily

Original Artwork: Gloriosa Rothschildiana by H.G. Moon
Era: 1903
Region: England

Woodland Daisies

Original Artwork: Tridex Gaillardioides by H.G. Moon
Era: 1903
Region: England

As we experience a renaissance in botanical illustration, contemporary practitioners will certainly look to these masters for how best to be a voice for botanicals.

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