Vintage botanical prints

The great botanical plates of the 18th and 19th centuries were made to be looked at closely: every vein of a leaf, every fold of a petal. We start from museum scans of those plates and re-pull them in a single historic technique each, so they read as prints rather than photographs of old paper.

Roses and crown imperials after Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Henry Bradbury’s nature-printed ferns, an orange lily from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine and George Brookshaw’s plums. Mix techniques freely: the cream and washi papers sit well together, and the blue cyanotypes make a strong pair with any of the warm prints.