Trew Plantae Selectae Vintage Illustration Pack, 16 Printable Plates

A themed pack of 16 printable vintage plates from Christoph Jakob Trew's Plantae Selectae (Nuremberg, 1750–1773), the celebrated folio of one hundred hand-coloured plates after watercolours by Georg Dionysius Ehret, engraved by Johann Jacob Haid, 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: Pineapple (Plate 2), Bocconia (Plate 4), Papaya (Plate 7), Coral Tree (Plate 8), Turk's-cap Lily (Plate 11), Crinum Lily (Plate 13), Banana (Plate 19), Ehretia (Plate 25), Coontie Palm (Plate 26), Spider Lily (Plate 27), Rat-tail Cactus (Plate 30), Night-blooming Cereus (Plate 31), Southern Magnolia (Plate 33), Yucca (Plate 37), Frangipani (Plate 41), Azalea (Plate 48). Plate numbers are the original Tabula numbers engraved on each plate.

Print size: Full-size original museum and library scans, never resized: about 11,800–12,100 px on the long edge. Every plate prints sharp up to about 25 × 40 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: 16 high-resolution JPGs, about 11,800–12,100 px on the long edge (796 MB total), delivered as one zip download.

Source: Hand-coloured copper-plate engravings after Georg Dionysius Ehret from Christoph Jakob Trew's Plantae Selectae quarum imagines ad exemplaria naturalia Londini in hortis curiosorum nutrita, via Wikimedia Commons (high-resolution library scans). JPEG originals used untouched at full native resolution. Public domain: Ehret died in 1770, Trew in 1769 and Haid in 1767; the plates were published 1750–1773.

Digital file only. No physical item will be shipped.