Category: botanic, botanicals, botanical, horticultural, floricultural, flora

Absalon and Gloria Nigrorum

Leendert Blok :: Tulips. Absalon (above) and Gloria Nigrorum. The Netherlands, 1920-1935. Autochrome. Early colour photography. | src Box Galerie & The Garden of Delight
Leendert Blok :: Tulips. Absalon (above) and Gloria Nigrorum. The Netherlands, 1920-1935. Autochrome. Early colour photography. | src Box Galerie & The Garden of Delight
Leendert Blok :: Floriculture, tulips, flowers, bulbs. Four variegated tulips. Example of early color photography using the Autochrome process. [The Netherlands, about 1930]. | src Nationaal Archief ~ Collectie Spaarnestad and Flow Magazine
Leendert Blok :: Floriculture, tulips, flowers, bulbs. Four variegated tulips. Example of early color photography using the Autochrome process. [The Netherlands, about 1930]. | src Nationaal Archief ~ Collectie Spaarnestad and Flow Magazine

Blok applied this first practical color process to photograph flowers for Dutch growers in the Bollenstreek. Using orange, violet and green colored very fine potato starch granules which act as a filter and which are applied to a black and white positive on glass, an image is created that can be viewed as a color slide. | src Nationaal Archief ~ Collectie Spaarnestad and Flow Magazine

Tulip and daffodil, 1927-1931

Leendert Blok :: Orange daffodil, Narcissus Queen of Spain. Example of early photography made according to the Autochrome process. [The Netherlands, ca. 1927.] | src Collectie Spaarnestad
Leendert Blok :: Orange daffodil, Narcissus Queen of Spain. Example of early photography made according to the Autochrome process. [The Netherlands, ca. 1927.] | src Collectie Spaarnestad
Leendert Blok :: Tulip 'Golden Age'. Lisse, The Netherlands, May 1931. Spectracolor. | src Collectie Spaarnestad
Leendert Blok :: Tulip ‘Golden Age’. Lisse, The Netherlands, May 1931. Spectracolor. | src Collectie Spaarnestad
Leendert Blok :: Orange daffodil, Narcissus Queen of Spain. Example of early photography made according to the Autochrome process. [The Netherlands, ca. 1927.] | src Collectie Spaarnestad
Leendert Blok :: Orange daffodil, Narcissus Queen of Spain. Example of early photography made according to the Autochrome process. [The Netherlands, ca. 1927.] | src Collectie Spaarnestad

La Micrographie Décorative

Laure Albin Guillot :: Planche II (Brazilwood - Paubrasilia). La Micrographie Décorative, Paris, Draeger frères, 1931
Laure Albin Guillot :: Planche II (Brazilwood – Paubrasilia). La Micrographie Décorative, Paris, Draeger frères, 1931
Laure Albin Guillot :: Planche II (Brazilwood - Paubrasilia). La Micrographie Décorative, Paris, Draeger frères, 1931. Album de 20 photographies en héliogravure tirées en noir, bistre, argent, sépia, vert et or sur papiers de diverses teintes, montées et présentées sous passe-partout. | src Artcurial
Laure Albin Guillot :: Planche II (Brazilwood – Paubrasilia). La Micrographie Décorative, Paris, Draeger frères, 1931. Album de 20 photographies en héliogravure tirées en noir, bistre, argent, sépia, vert et or sur papiers de diverses teintes, montées et présentées sous passe-partout. | src Artcurial
Laure Albin-Guillot :: Glossy Buckthorn (Frangula alnus), from Micrographie Décorative / Decorative Photo-Micrographs, 1931. Portfolio of 20 photogravures. | src MoMA
Laure Albin-Guillot :: Glossy Buckthorn (Frangula alnus), from Micrographie Décorative / Decorative Photo-Micrographs, 1931. Portfolio of 20 photogravures. | src MoMA

La Micrographie Décorative

Laure Albin-Guillot :: Bud from an Ashtree, from Micrographie Décorative / Decorative Photo-Micrographs, 1931. Portfolio of 20 photogravures. | src MoMA
Laure Albin-Guillot :: Bud from an Ashtree, from Micrographie Décorative / Decorative Photo-Micrographs, 1931. Portfolio of 20 photogravures. | src MoMA
Laure Albin-Guillot :: Barley Root, from Micrographie Décorative / Decorative Photo-Micrographs, 1931. Portfolio of 20 photogravures. | src MoMA
Laure Albin-Guillot :: Barley Root, from Micrographie Décorative / Decorative Photo-Micrographs, 1931. Portfolio of 20 photogravures. | src MoMA
Laure Albin-Guillot :: Glossy Buckthorn (Frangula alnus), from Micrographie Décorative / Decorative Photo-Micrographs, 1931. Portfolio of 20 photogravures. | src MoMA
Laure Albin-Guillot :: Glossy Buckthorn (Frangula alnus), from Micrographie Décorative / Decorative Photo-Micrographs, 1931. Portfolio of 20 photogravures. | src MoMA

Etudes de Fleurs ca. 1930

Laure Albin-Guillot :: Étude de fleurs [with stem] [magnolias (?)], ca. 1930. Vintage Fresson print. | src Seagrave Gallery
Laure Albin-Guillot :: Étude de fleurs [with stem] [magnolias (?)], ca. 1930. Vintage Fresson print. | src Seagrave Gallery
Laure Albin-Guillot :: Étude de Fleurs [water lilies (?)], ca. 1930. Vintage Fresson print. | src Seagrave Gallery
Laure Albin-Guillot :: Étude de Fleurs [water lilies (?)], ca. 1930. Vintage Fresson print. | src Seagrave Gallery

Watkins · Flower Studies

Margaret Watkins (Canadian, 1884-1969) ~ Flower Studies (Poppies), ca. 1920
Margaret Watkins ~ Flower Studies, ca. 1920s. © The Estate of Margaret Watkins. Courtesy Robert Mann Gallery. | src l’œil de la photographie

Cyanotypes of Algae, 1843

‘Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions’ by Anna Atkins (1799-1871) Part 1 of Fox Talbot’s own copy, sewn in original blue wrapper. Atkins published a collection of cyanotype photograms of algae, in installments over ten years from 1843 to 1853. | src Science and Media Museum