Jane Wells Loudon British Wild Flowers

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British Wild Flowers
—1846 and 1849—
by Mrs. Jane Wells Loudon

Original hand-coloured lithographic plates over 175 years old!
Sheet size: approximately 9.125 x 11.675 inches (about 23 x 30 cm)

Miss Jane Wells Loudon
(1807-1858)

Illustrated floral publications for gardeners were extremely popular in the 19th century. Some specialized in flower gardens maintained by ladies. The most popular of these was created by Jane Wells Loudon who published the Ladies Flower Garden beginning in 1842 with 48 hand-coloured lithographs covering ornamental annuals. She later added 5 publications covering other flowers grown in ladies' flower gardens.

Mrs. Loudon's love of flowers is apparent in this statement from her introduction to the first publication:

"The love of flowers is calculated to improve our best feelings, and subdue our bad ones; and we can hardly contemplate the beauty and richness of a flower-garden without feeling our hearts dilate with gratitude to that Almighty Being who has made all these lovely blossoms, and given them to us for our use."

The popularity of these florals remains one and a half centuries later, and Mrs. Loudon's florals are still highly sought after by collectors and decorators. We now are pleased to present the same to supplement our already outstanding collection of floral prints.

See also our Miss Jane Loudon hand-coloured lithographs from
The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals (1844)

PLATE 31

1. Sloe, or Blackthorn 2. Wild Cherry 3. Bird Cherry

$179.95

PLATE 32

1. Dew-Berry 2. Common Bramble, or Blackberry 3. Arctic, or Dwarf Crimson Bramble 4. Cloud-Berry

$179.95

PLATE 33

1. Wood Strawberry 2. Shrubby Cinquefoil 3. Wild Tansey 4. Common Creeping Cinquefoil 5. Marsh Cinquefoil, or Purple Marshlocks 6. Trailing Tormentil 7. Water Avens 8. Mountain Avens

$179.95

PLATE 34

1. Burnet Rose 2. Sweet Briar, or Eglantine 3. Common Dog Rose 4. Ayrshire Rose

PLATE 35

1. Common Hawthorn, or Whitethorn 2. Common Cotoneaster 3. Crab, or Wild Apple Tree 4. White Beam Tree 5. True Service Tree

$179.95

PLATE 36

1. Common Red Currant 2. Spike-flowered Red, or Tree, Currant 3. Black Currant 4. Common Gooseberry

$179.95

PLATE 37

1. Persian or French Willow Herb 2. Codlins and Cream 3. Broad Smooth-leaved Willow Herb 4. Alpine Willow Herb 5. Common Evening Primrose

$179.95

PLATE 38

1. Wild Carrot 2. Great Bur Parsley 3. Small Hartwort 4. Sea Hog's Fennel, or Sea Sulphurwort 5. Sea Samphire 6. Spiguel, Meu, or Bald Money 7. Common Hare's-ear, or Thorow-wax

$179.95

PLATE 39

1. Mug Weed 2. White Water Bed-straw 3. Yellow Bed-Straw 4. Hedge Bed-straw, or Whip-tongue 5. Squinancy wort 6. Wild Nodder

$179.95

PLATE 40

1. Pale Perfoliate Honeysuckle 2. Common Honeysuckle 3. Fly Honeysuckle 4. The Linnaea

PLATE 41

1. Billberry 2. Cranberry 3. Round-headed Rampion 4. Spreading Bell-flower 5. Common Sheep's-bit or Sheep's Scabious 6. Water Lobelia 7. Fuller's Teasel 8. Devil's-bit Scabious

PLATE 42

1. Marsh Ragwort 2. Great White Ox-eye, or Mount Daisy 3. Ox-eye Chamomile 4. Common Yarrow, or Milfoil 5. Black Knapweed 6. Musk Thistle 7. Orange Hawkweed 8. Yellow Goat's-beard 9. Wild Succory

$179.95

PLATE 43

1. Lungwort 2. Gromwell 3. Tuberous-rooted Comfrey 4. Borage 5. Small Bugloss 6. Evergreen Alkanet 7. Red Hound's-tongue 8. Greek Valerian

PLATE 44

1. Procumbent Azalea 2. Marsh Andromeda 3. Ling, or Heather 4. Irish Menziesia 5. Cross-leaved Heath 6. Cornish Heath 7. Red bear-berry 8. Round-leaved Winter-green 9. Yellow Bird's-nest

$179.95

PLATE 45

1. Lesser Periwinkle 2. Common Buck Bean 3. Fringed Buck Bean 4. Woody Nightshade

PLATE 46

1. Common Primrose 2. Oxlip 3. Cowslip 4. Scottish Primrose 5. Wood Loosestrife, or Yellow Pimpernel 6. Scarlet Pimpernel 7. Large-flowered Butterwort 8. Bladderwort, or Common Hooded Milfoil

$179.95

PLATE 47

1. Spiked Speedwell 2. Flesh-coloured Shrubby Speedwell 3. Germander Speedwell 4. Large Bushy Yellow Rattle 5. Pasture Lousewort, or Dwarf Red Rattle 6. Alpine Bartain 7. Eye-bright

$179.95

PLATE 48

1. Ivy-leaved Toad Flax 2. Round-leaved Fluellen 3. Creeping Pale-blue Toad Flax 4. Yellow Toad Flax 5. Great Snapdragon

$179.95

PLATE 49

1. Blue Broom Rape 2. Toothwort 3. Crested Cow-wheat 4. Purple Cow-wheat 5. Vervain

$179.95

PLATE 50

1. Meadow Clary 2. Bergamot Mint 3. Wild Thyme 4. Bugle 5. Motherwort

$179.95

PLATE 51

1. Bastard Balm 2. Bee Nettle 3. Hedge Woundwort 4. Spotted Dead Nettle 5. Ground Ivy

$179.95

PLATE 52

1. Mezereon, or Spurge-Olive 2. Curled Dock 3. Amphibious Persicaria 4. Spotted Persicaria 5. Snake-weed 6. Purple Spurge

$179.95

PLATE 53

1. Lesser Water Plantain 2. Arrow-head 3. Water Soldier 4. The Frogbit 5. Floating Water Plantain

$179.95

PLATE 54

1. Yellow Water Iris 2. Stalking Iris 3. The Saffron 4. The Yellow Crocus 5. The Early Crocus

$179.95

PLATE 55

1. Marsh Hellebore 2. Purple Hellebore 3. Bird's Nest 4. Lady's Tresses

$179.95

PLATE 56

1. Early Purple Orchis 2. Marsh Orchis 3. Monkey Orchis 4. Lizard Orchis

$179.95

PLATE 57

1. Man Orchis 2. Bee Orchis 3. Spider Orchis 4. Fly Orchis 5. Lady's Slipper

$179.95

PLATE 58

1. Meadow Saffron 2. White Meadow Saffron 3. Primrose Peerless 4. Daffodil 5. Snowdrop

$179.95

PLATE 59

1. Wild Tulip 2. Fritillary 3. Star of Bethlehem 4. Ramsons, or Broad-leaved Garlic 5. Yellow Gagea

$179.95

PLATE 60

1. Flowering Rush 2. Lily of the Valley 3. Solomon's Seal 4. Herb Paris 5. Butcher's Broom

$179.95

THE PLATES BELOW ARE FROM THE 1846 EDITION OF BRITISH WILD FLOWERS BY MRS. JANE WELLS LOUDON.
THE ONLY DIFFERENCE FROM THOSE ABOVE ARE THE LACK OF PLATE NUMBERS IN THE UPPER RIGHT CORNER.
(WE DO NOT HAVE THE TITLE PAGE FOR THIS VOLUME.)

[PLATE 3]

1. Globe flower 2. Marsh Marigold 3. Stinking Hellebore

$179.95

SHORT CLOSED TEAR AT TOP, EASILY COVERED WHEN MOUNTING/MATTING

[PLATE 5]

1. The White Water Lily 2. The Common Yellow Water Lily 3. The small Yellow Water Lily

$179.95

A FEW TINY, UNOBTRUSIVE FOX MARKS AND MINOR SMUDGES IN OUTER MARGINS

[PLATE 16]

1. Large Flowered St. John's Wort 2. St. Peter's Wort 3. Common St. John's Wort 4. Upright St. John's Wort 5. Marsh St. John's Wort

$179.95

A FEW TINY, UNOBTRUSIVE FOX MARKS

[PLATE 12]

1. Wild Cabbage 2. White Mustard 3. Sea Kale

$179.95

MILD SMUDGING ALONG RIGHT EDGE

[PLATE 40]

1. Pale Perfoliate Honeysuckle 2. Common Honeysuckle 3. Fly Honeysuckle 4. The Linnaea

$179.95

MILD SMUDGING ALONG EDGES

[PLATE 11]

1. Jack in the Hedge or Sauce alone 2. Hedge Mustard 3. Woad

$179.95

SOME FOXING

[PLATE 59]

1. The Wild Tulip 2. The Fritillary 3. The Star of Bethlehem 4. Ramson's, or Broad leaved Garlic 4. Yellow Gagea

$79.95

FOXING, ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR SMEAR ON TULIP

[PLATE 28]

1. Common Yellow Meillot 2. Starry headed Trefoil 3. Common Bird's Foot Trefoil 4. Greater Bird's Foot Trefoil 5. Lucerne 6. The Heart Medick, or Clover

$79.95

NOTE: this print has been trimmed down to about 7x9 inches; also note the paper clip indentation and rust upper left edge

[PLATE 50]

1. Meadow Clary 2. Bergamot Mint 3. Wild Thyme 4. Bugle 5. Motherwort

$179.95

MILD TONING AROUND EDGES

[PLATE 41]

1. Billberry 2. Cranberry 3. Round-headed Rampion 4. Spreading Bell-flower 5. Common Sheep's-bit or Sheep's Scabious 6. Water Lobelia 7. Fuller's Teasel 8. Devil's-bit Scabious

$179.95

MILD TONING AROUND EDGES

[Plate 31]

1. Sloe, or Blackthorn 2. Wild Cherry 3. Bird Cherry

$179.95

MILD TONING AROUND EDGES; FOX MARK IN UPPER MARGIN OUTSIDE OF IMAGE AREA

[Plate 10]

1. Yellow Whitlow Grass 2. Sea Rocket 3. Mithridate Mustard 4. Common Scurvy Grass

$179.95

MILD FOXING

[PLATE 39]

1. Mug Weed 2. White Water Bed-straw 3. Yellow Bed-Straw 4. Hedge Bed-straw, or Whip-tongue 5. Squinancy wort 6. Wild Nodder

$179.95

MILD TONING AROUND EDGES

[Plate 35]

1. Common Holly 2. Common Spindle Tree 3. The Bladder Nut

$179.95

VERY MILD FOXING

[Plate 33]

1. The Hairy London Pride 2. The Cream Colored London Pride 3. The Broad-petaled Saxifrage 4. Purple Mountain Saxifrage

$179.95

MILD TONING AROUND EDGES

[Plate 30]

1. Willow-leaved Spiroea 2. Common Dropwort 3. Meadow Sweet, or Queen of the Meadows

$179.95

MILD TONING AROUND EDGES

[PLATE 52]

1. Mezereon, or Spurge-Olive 2. Curled Dock 3. Amphibious Persicaria 4. Spotted Persicaria 5. Snake-weed 6. Purple Spurge

$179.95

MILD TONING AROUND EDGES

[PLATE 44]

1. Procumbent Azalea 2. Marsh Andromeda 3. Ling, or Heather 4. Irish Menziesia 5. Cross-leaved Heath 6. Cornish Heath 7. Red bear-berry 8. Round-leaved Winter-green 9. Yellow Bird's-nest

$179.95

MILD TONING AROUND EDGES

[PLATE 35]

1. Common Hawthorn, or Whitethorn 2. Common Cotoneaster 3. Crab, or Wild Apple Tree 4. White Beam Tree 5. True Service Tree

$179.95

MILD TONING AROUND EDGES

See also Jane Loudon's The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals

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