19th and 20th Century Style Botanical Illustrations of the Cactaceae?

[mira]

I recently decided I'd like to put some art on the walls and was struck by some excellent 19th century botanical illustrations I saw at a clients house, but searches for classic illustrations of Cactaceae are bringing up nothing. Can someone (trucha?, EG?) point me in the right direction?

I'm looking specifically for something like Trichocereus or Lophophora.

[chilli]

Cool idea, did you try words like 'vintage' in the searches? vintage cactus illustrations brought up some interesting results.

adding botanical to the mix made it even better, you could further refine the filter by adding things like 18th century or particular species.

usually enough creative googling will find what you are looking for

Edited November 28, 2012 by chilli

[mira]

I spent a lot of time googling and I came across some really cool stuff, but not too many hi-res cactus illustrations and none that were Trichocereus or Lophophora.

Unfortunately the libraries and herbariums that hold the interesting prints are slow to scan them usually. I found a really nice collection of South American prints including some active vascular species.

[lhb2444]

http://vintageprinta...aturated-color/

Some cool pictures here (no trichs or lophs) nut lots of nicely coloured columns and hylocereus flowers. Definitely worth a browse!

(Edited to add link) http://vintageprintable.swivelchairmedia.com/botanical/botanical-mushrooms/

Some nice mushrooms here.

Edited November 28, 2012 by lhb2444

[bogfrog]

I imagine you have already checked out ebay, but i saw some beautiful botanical prints of a few types of cacti for sale a couple months ago, between $15-25 US each.

I'm pretty sure there was a black and white lophophora print, and the seller had a nice selection so i'd say they would still have some available.

[niggles]

this was the best ive found so far...

http://botany.si.edu/botart/rptShowImage.cfm?recID=13&imageName=13.JPG

[mira]

Double Post.

Edited November 29, 2012 by mira

[mira]

This is the best I've found and it draws heavily from botanicus which I mentioned in the other thread, but it is an excellent resource for pictures even though there isn't much in the way of Trichocereus.

http://plantillustrations.org/

Link to their Cactaceae collection: http://plantillustrations.org/taxa.php?id_taxon=%20%2013590&lay_out=1&photo=1

I did manage to find a decent scan of Hooker's Echinocactus williamsii aka. L. williamsii through botanicus though.

This is great for vascular plants, but unfortunately it's not the absolute best scan quality.

If anyone has a really high-res copy of the Hooker watercolor I mentioned above I'd love a PM.

This site is also excellent for some images but mainly old botanical/natural texts:

http://www.biodivers...rg/Default.aspx

Edited November 29, 2012 by mira

[trucha]

Smithsonian has LOADS of old botanical illustrations and photographs online. There are a number of different image collections available at their website.

Also visit the library at Cactusconservation.org. At the bottom of the page are links to several digital libraries online (including the two mentioned above).

Many of the old botanical works are available online at a decent enough resolution for printing.

The Biodiversity Heritage site has a really nice selection but often scans at too weak of resolution however many of he works there are great.

Cactuspro is similar. Lots of great scans and some inadequate ones.

[bogfrog]

JUst been trying to find some b&w cacti images to scrimshaw,

came across this site,

images seem to vary in size and quality but there are some goodies for sure

http://botany.si.edu/botart/

[bogfrog]

here's an interesting one lol

from:

http://plantillustrations.org/illustration.php?id_illustration=101699&language=English

[trucha]

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Edited December 4, 2012 by trucha

[CβL]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1904-Kunstformen-der-Natur-Art-Forms-of-Nature-ERNST-HAECKEL-antique-100-plate-/271100313300?pt=Antiquarian_Collectible&hash=item3f1ed67ed4

If only we could pool a few grand, hehe.