Vintage engraving of a flower bouquet in an urn. This book image was most likely made with a wood engraving and would work well anywhere you would normally use a rubber stamp. The details aren’t sharp enough to make out what any of the flowers are but that just adds to the universality of this flower drawing.
I have had the pleasure of working with a number of these vintage children’s encylopedias form the 1800s. They always seem to contain such a wonderful variety of illustrations and this one was no exception. The boys’ and girls’ library containing a variety of useful and instructive reading, selected from eminent writers for youth contained the artwork of William Monkhouse (1805?-1862) and was published in 1851.
This image is copyright free and in the public domain anywhere that extends copyrights 70 years after death or at least 120 years after publication when the original illustrator is unknown.
