Here are four beautiful vintage botanical clip art illustrations. The images include: parsnip, hazel, spindle tree and a horse chestnut.
The parsnip features a plant with green leaves, a sprig of green buds and a section of dark yellow flowers in full bloom.
The illustration of the hazel plant features a sprig of bluish green leaves, one of which is partially torn away, perhaps eaten by pests. The sprig also includes a cluster of three golden hazelnuts in their casings.
The vintage botanical clip art illustration of the spindle tree features a sprig of burgundy colored leaves and an abundance of beautiful red berries hanging in clusters from thin branches.
The horse chestnut features a sprig of yellow leaves and two prickly casings. One of the casings has broken open to reveal the reddish brown nut inside.
For your convenience, I have also resized the four vintage botanical clip art illustrations to include them on one printable page.
I scanned the original images from Wild Fruits of the Country Side by F. Edward Hulme. The book was published in 1907.
New in my Etsy shop this week is a printable set of 8.5″ x 11″ aged, shabby notepapers.
Image is linked to my shop.
9 thoughts on “Vintage Botanical Clip Art Illustrations”
Thank you for these lovely botanicals. I especially love the spindle tree.
You’re welcome, Peggy. I’m happy to know you like the botanicals. 🙂
What an angel you are–I`m right in the middle of a Nature themed journal and these images are SO perfect for what I`m doing.
Thankyou so much for your generosity and your excellent artwork .
Got to get back to my table……
Best wishes , Hellen
Hi Hellen. I’m very happy to know the timing was right for you to have these images for your nature themed journal. Have fun creating! 🙂
TFS. Great images!
You’re welcome, Debbi. I’m happy to know you like the images. 🙂
Love the horse chestnut one, that conker looks lovely and shiny x
You’re welcome, Angela. I’m happy to know you love the horse chestnut. 🙂
I am absolutely in love with font used in those illustrations.
I would like to create a computer font from it so everyone can use it. I’ve gathered all the images you’ve posted, do you have any more? Is that font used anywhere else in the book?
The more of the original font I have the better it’ll look in the end. I believe I can make craft most of the missing letters from what I’ve got but the uppercase is going to be trickier.
If you are at all interested in having this font for yourself let me know, I’ll send it to you when it’s done.