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Papercutting : (Philipp Otto Runge, 1777–1810). This discipline was also practised in Ottoman Turkey (17th-18th centuries), under the name of Kaat'ı (more or less similar to quilling). Collages: (watercolor-enhanced paper collages by Mary Delany). Cut-out gouaches (Acanthus by Henri Matisse), 1953. Wall-paper and textile designers like Joseph-Laurent Malaine and the Arthur et Robert wallpaper factory, or William Morris, who paid close attention to botanical detail in his botanical patterns (Common hollyhock, 1862). Ceramics, such as those from Sèvres, often feature botanical motifs, finely observed from the 18th century onward. In 1790, Frederick VI of Denmark ordered a dinner set made decorated with exact copies of the plates of Flora Danica. Loren L. Zeller notes that Jean-Baptiste Pillement also produced several collections containing exotic floral and botanical designs. This was at a time when many women loved accessories decorated with flowers (flower holders, fans, perfume dispensers such as perfume [14]) and floral wall hangings, wallpaper, textiles and jewels were fashionable. Floral marquetry : Jan van Mekeren (Tiel 1658-1733 Amsterdam) is remembered for his cabinets covered with floral marquetry representing more than ten identifiable flowers. Cabinetmaker Jean-François Oeben was renowned for his foral marquetry decorations. Martine Lefèvre suggests that the foliage and flower decor on a table by Oeben may have been inspired by Jacques Daniel Cottin's indiennes as Cottin (who Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf worked for before he founded his toile de Jouy manufacture) was his neighbour in the "cour des Princes" in the Arsenal de Paris. She also writes that Cottin had "a silk sample decorated with twisted columns and small bouquets sent from Lyon in order to copy it". The silk manufactures in Lyon employed skilled artists trained in the local "classe de fleur" (flower drawing school) or in Paris (Gobelins Manufactory). The carved decor of Louis XV furniture featured garlands of flowers, fleurettes, palmettes, and foliage, as well as seashells. The Rocaille, during the reign of Louis XV, included the use of vegetal forms (vines, leaves, flowers) intertwined in complex designs.
=== Three-dimensional representations === wax sculpture : Louis Marc Antoine Robillard d'Argentelle (1777–1828) devoted 25 years of his life to creating the Museum's "Carporama", a collection of 112 tropical wax fruits and plants made between 1803 and 1826. The collection was presented in the Museum's botanical galleries in 1829. Before him, André-Pierre Pinson (1746–1828) had made wax mushrooms inspired by engravings by Pierre Bulliard (1742–1793). Papier mâché molded as in the botanical models designed for use in teaching by Louis Auzoux, dating from the 1870s-1880s, now in the Musée national de l'Éducation. Papier mâché and other materials were used for the Robert and Reinhold Brendel's modèles Brendel. Glass : In 1886, glass artists Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka were commissioned by the Harvard Botanical Museum to create a collection of Glass Flowers. Flowers have inspired many jewellers. In the 19th century, at least, they relied on detailed botanical sketches. "The ... designs, made by [Octave] Loeulliard for Boucheron, were criticized for striving after the exact representation of natural forms at the expense of the actual function of the jewel,... a criticism which could equally well have been levelled at Carl Fabergé and the Art Nouveau jewellers who clearly tended to regard a p iece of jewellery as a work of art rather than as a fashionable accessory". Other examples include jewels by Mellerio dits Meller (Set of jewels called Fuchsias en pluie - shower of Fuchsia flowers), circa 1830, presented at the Redouté exhibition at the Musée de la Vie romantique).
== Notable botanical illustrators == Notable botanical illustrators include:
== Awards == The Linnean Society of London awards the Jill Smythies Award for botanical illustration.
== See also == Florilegium Still life List of florilegia and botanical codices List of American botanical illustrators List of Australian botanical illustrators List of Irish botanical illustrators Illustration Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators
== References ==
== Further reading == De Bray, Lys (2001). The Art of Botanical Illustration: A history of classic illustrators and their achievements. Quantum Publishing, London. ISBN 1-86160-425-4. Blunt, Wilfrid and Stearn, William T. (1994). The Art of Botanical Illustration. Antique Collector's Club, London. ISBN 1-85149-177-5. Morris, Colleen; Louisa Murray: (2016). The Florilegium: the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney celebrating 200 years: plants of the three gardens of the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, The Florilegium Society at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. ISBN 978-099-447790-3 Sherwood, Shirley (2001). A Passion for Plants: Contemporary Botanical Masterworks. Cassell and Co, London. ISBN 0-304-35828-2. Sherwood, Shirley and Rix, Martyn (2008). Treasures of Botanical Art. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 978-1-84246-221-8. "Index". Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators 1780s-1980s. Australian National Herbarium. Retrieved 2008-10-02. "Women Illustrators". The Art of Botanical Illustration. University of Delaware Library. Retrieved 2008-10-02. "Home page". Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. Carnegie Mellon University. Archived from the original on 2008-05-09. Retrieved 2008-10-02. Lack, H. Walter (2021). A Garden Eden: Masterpieces of Botanical Illustration. Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8365-7739-7.
== External links ==
American Society of Botanical Artists Art Serving Science: Solutions for the Preservation and Access of a Collection of Botanical Art and Illustration Botanical Art Society of Australia Botanical Drawings of carnivorous plants from the John Innes Centre Historical Collection Archived 2018-04-03 at the Wayback Machine Plantillustrations.org: searchable database of historic illustrations Botany.si.edu: online Smithsonian catalogue Flora of New Granada (Colombia) Drawings online, from the Royal Botanical Expedition led by Jose Celestino Mutis Traveling Artist Wildflowers Project University of Delaware: 'The Art of Botanical Illustration' exhibit "The Science of Art — Why Botanical Illustration Matters". National Tropical Botanical Garden. June 28, 2019. Retrieved 5 March 2025.