Antique Botanical Lithograph Print

Romantic and bucolic, this framed lithograph with light pink mat will add a delicate touch to your walls. To mix and match with your art or feature all alone.

Botanical illustrations like this one are accurate pictorial depiction of plants and plant traits for a scientific purpose. Over the course of centuries, revolution after revolution in printmaking produced botanical prints in a variety of forms. Not only antique botanicals represent early scientific progress, but they also offer a stunning form of wall art.

Lithography took off in the 19^th Century, presenting lots of advantages over previous methods. Because of the use of stone or another grained surface, it was possible to achieve far more variation in tone and texture. It also improved colour-printing, where one applies different colours to different stones and overprints them onto the same sheet.

Print-makers soon recognised the value of lithography for creating botanicals and it was particularly significant for colour differentiation. Whether the prints are originally black-and-white and later hand-coloured, or chromolithographs (printed in multi-colour), these results are vibrant, detailed and striking.