Drawer V of VII

Trees, palms & ferns

Leaf, frond and branch: the forest trees of Europe, tropical palms, the Victorian fern craze in E.J. Lowe's lithographs, the ferns of Java, club mosses, lichens and seaweeds.

114 prints

Before 1750 4 1750 to 1799 7 1800 to 1849 33 1850 and after 59

Order: Finest firstOldest first Newest first Price, low to high Price, high to low

Antique Salak Palm Botanical Chromolithograph by Hoola van Nooten, c. 1880

£1,095

1880 · 40 × 55.5 cm

Antique Cycad Botanical Print, Copper Engraving, c.1831, Hand Colored

£950

1831 · 22.7 × 27.1 cm

Antique Botanical Print of Coconut Palm, Copper Engraving, c.1831

£935

1831 · 22.7 × 27.1 cm

Antique Sago Palm Botanical Print, Copper Engraving, c.1831

£865

1831 · 22.7 × 27.1 cm

Original Antique Botanical Chromolithograph of Namnam Tree, c. 1880

£760

1880 · 40 × 55.5 cm

Original Antique Botanical Chromolithograph of White Birdcatcher Tree, c. 1880

£755

1880 · 40 × 55.5 cm

Set of 2

Set of 2 Botany Prints of the European Fan Palm and Copernicia Prunifera, c.1740

£720

1740 · 24.5 × 40 cm

Exotic Victorian Fern Lithograph Collection with English Species Names, 1856

£715

1856 · 15.5 × 25 cm

Set of 10

Set of 10 Original Antique Fern Lithographs by Edward J. Lowe, 1856

£715

1856 · 15.5 × 25 cm

Collection of 10 Original Antique Tropical Fern Lithographs by E.J. Lowe, 1856

£715

1856 · 15.5 × 25 cm

Antique Victorian Fern Botanical Prints, Gymnogramma Plates Wall Art 1856

£525

1856 · 15.5 × 25 cm

Burning Bush, Autumn Crocus, and English Oak: Botanical Illustrations from 1819

£500

1819 · 21.7 × 27.5 cm

English Oak, Cloth of Gold Crocus, and Sand Sedge: Botanical Illustrations 1819

£500

1819 · 21.7 × 27.5 cm

Victorian Fern Botanical Prints, Exotic Decorative Plant Studies Set 1856

£490

1856 · 15.5 × 25 cm

The Melancholy Tree of the East: A 1601 de Bry Engraving from 'Indiae Orientalis

£465

1601 · 20 × 30 cm

Tropical Abundance: The Jackfruit and Palm Trees in De Bry's 1601 Engraving

£465

1601 · 20 × 30 cm

Antique Victorian Fern Botanical Prints Set, Polypodium Studies Wall Art 1856

£450

1856 · 15.5 × 25 cm

Antique Botanical Print of a Tamarind Tree

£415

Date not stated · 23 × 35.5 cm

Exotic Flora of the Indies: The Cajus and Jambos Trees Copper Engraved in 1601

£415

1601 · 20 × 30 cm

Set of 6

Antique Lichen Prints Set of 6, German Botanical Lithographs 1874

£415

1874 · 23.3 × 34 cm

Set of 6

Antique Lichen Prints Set of 6, German Botanical Lithographs 1874

£415

1874 · 23.3 × 34 cm

Antique Botanical Fern Prints, Polypodium Studies Decorative Set Lowe 1856

£405

1856 · 15.5 × 25 cm

Set of 6

Antique Botanical Fern Lithographs by E.J. Lowe, Set of 6, Published in 1856

£355

1856 · 15.5 × 25 cm

Set of 6

Victorian Exotic Fern Lithograph Portfolio by E.J. Lowe, 1856, Set of 6

£355

1856 · 15.5 × 25 cm

Rare Victorian Tropical Fern Lithograph Collection by E.J. Lowe, 1856

£355

1856 · 15.5 × 25 cm

Hand-Colored Botanical Lithograph of Sunflower & Linden Tree, 1854

£330

1854 · 20.5 × 26 cm

Large, Uniquely Handcolored Lithograph of Ferns of Indonesia 'Polypodium', 1829

£305

1829 · 44.5 × 55 cm

Antique Botany Print of Licuala Gracilis, a Fan Palm

£305

Date not stated · 29 × 44.4 cm

Antique Botany Print of Licuala Nana, a Fan Palm

£305

Date not stated · 29 × 44.4 cm

Antique Botany Print of Dacrydium Elatum and a Podocarpus Species

£305

Date not stated · 29 × 44.4 cm

Antique Botany Print of Liriodendron Tulipifera or Common Tulip Tree

£305

Date not stated · 14 × 23 cm

Antique Botanical Prints of Curly Palm, Spiny Date Palm & Trachycarpus, c.1897

£290

1897 · 15.9 × 24 cm

Antique Botanical Prints of Bourbon Palm, Cocos Weddeliana & Screw-Pine, c.1897

£290

1897 · 15.9 × 24 cm

Hand-Colored Botanical Engravings of French-Willow Species, 1902

£290

1902 · 17 × 26 cm

Antique Botanical Lithograph, Thuopsis Dolabrata, Siebold Zuccarini, 1856

£270

1856 · 24.7 × 31.2 cm

Set of 2

Set of 2 Botany Prints of Palm Species by Blume 'c.1840'

£255

1840 · 29.5 × 45 cm

Set of 3

British Ferns Triptych, Three Antique Botanical Prints, Anne Pratt, 1873

£255

1873 · 14 × 24.4 cm

Artfully Handcolored Lithograph of Ferns of Java 'Polypodium', 1829

£250

1829 · 28.5 × 45.5 cm

19th Century Sago Palm Tree Antique Engraving Original Handcoloring, 1845

£245

1845 · 17 × 26.5 cm

Hand-Colored Engraving of Shield Lichen, Parmelia saxatilis, by F. Guimpel, 1819

£245

1819 · 21.7 × 27.5 cm

Engraving of Common Orange Lichen, Parmelia parietina, Published in 1819

£245

1819 · 21.7 × 27.5 cm

Set of 2

Common Wall Spleenwort Ferns, Victorian Botanical Prints, 1873 Pair

£245

1873 · 14 × 24.4 cm

Hart’s Tongue and Scaly Spleenwort Ferns, Hand-Colored Botanical Prints, 1873

£245

1873 · 14 × 24.4 cm

Hard Fern and Common Brake Fern Prints, Hand-Colored Botanical Engravings, 1873

£245

1873 · 14 × 24.4 cm

Maidenhair and European Bristle Ferns, Hand-Colored Engravings, 1873

£245

1873 · 14 × 24.4 cm

Antique German Botanical Atlas Plates, Tafel 13 to 14, Ferns & Conifers, 1885

£245

1885 · 42 × 32 cm

Rare, Artfully Handcolored Lithograph of Ferns of Java 'Polypodium', 1829

£240

1829 · 28.5 × 45.5 cm

Lichen Varieties: A Collection of Symbiotic Elegance Engraved and Colored, 1845

£240

1845 · 17 × 26.5 cm

About trees, palms & ferns

Trees, palms and ferns have their own long tradition in print. Duhamel du Monceau and Le Bas engraved the forest trees of France, Blume described the palms of the East Indies, and in the 1850s Britain caught fern fever: E.J. Lowe's colour-printed Ferns British and Exotic fed a craze that filled Victorian parlours with fern cases.

Here too are the ferns of Java in hand-coloured lithographs of 1829, club mosses, horsetails, lichens and seaweeds, the quieter plants that botanists loved.

Explore

By maker, by plant and by place.

Makers and books

Van Houtte's Flore des Serres 39 Curtis's Botanical Magazine 24 Hoola van Nooten's fruits and flowers of Java 26 Bertuch's Bilderbuch 40 Sowerby's English Botany 18 Plenck's medicinal plants 10 Edward Step's Favourite Flowers 48 Maund's Botanic Garden 11 E.J. Lowe's ferns 6 Fries's Swedish mushrooms 9 De Bry's India Orientalis 11 Müller's orchids of Germany (1904) 18 Alpine flora 54

Subjects

Roses 13 Lilies and bulbs 40 Rhododendrons, camellias and azaleas 15 Begonias and foliage plants 32 Cacti, aloes and succulents 29 Carnivorous plants 6 Wildflowers 45 Water plants and water lilies 26 Grapes and vines 17 Apples, pears and plums 28 Citrus and the Hesperides 7 Tropical fruit 47 Spices 29 Medicinal plants 45 Coffee, tea, tobacco and cotton 23 Palms 16 Ferns and mosses 62 Grasses and grain 38

Places

Java and the East Indies 27 The Cape and Africa 12 Australia and New Zealand 7 The Americas 14 Japan and China 14

Questions about trees, palms & ferns

Why do so many fern prints date from the 1850s and 1860s?

Because of pteridomania, the Victorian fern craze. Ferns were collected, grown and drawn by everyone, and publishers answered with books of colour-printed plates.