Thornton Temple of Flora Vintage Illustration Pack, 14 Printable Plates

A themed pack of 14 printable vintage plates from Robert John Thornton's The Temple of Flora (London, 1798–1807), the most dramatic flower book of its age, with blooms painted against moody landscapes, made for junk journals, scrapbooking, card making, collage, decoupage and paper crafts. Print them at home, cut them out and layer them into your projects. The files are full-size original scans, so they are also big enough to frame as wall art.

Plates included: Blue Passion Flower, Queen Flower, Night-Blowing Cereus, Blue Egyptian Water Lily, Group of Auriculas, White Lily, Oblique-Leaved Begonia, Sensitive Plant, American Aloe, American Cowslip, Narrow-Leaved Kalmia, Nodding Renealmia, Persian Cyclamen, Pontic Rhododendron. The original Temple of Flora plates were issued unnumbered.

Print size: Full-size original museum and library scans, never resized: about 4,800–6,400 px on the long edge. Every plate prints sharp up to about 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi (based on the smallest plate; most go larger), and down to A4, US Letter or A5 with no loss. The shapes vary slightly because they're original book pages.

Files: 14 high-resolution JPGs, about 4,800–6,400 px on the long edge (174 MB total), delivered as one zip download.

Source: Colour-printed and hand-finished aquatints, mezzotints and stipple engravings after paintings by Philip Reinagle, Peter Henderson and others, from Thornton's The Temple of Flora. Thirteen plates are the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access master scans (CC0) and the Night-blowing Cereus is from the New York Public Library Digital Collections, all via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain: Thornton died in 1837, Reinagle in 1833 and Henderson in 1829, and the plates were published over 200 years ago.

Digital file only. No physical item will be shipped.