My favorite harbinger of spring – the crocus, in this case, a lovely drawing of a purple crocus. This purple flower image comes from a book that was printed over 150 years ago. The purple crocus drawing was hand-painted with watercolors.
Here we have a lovely single crocus bloom with a yellow center and a trio of leaves. The stem has been cut. Too bad that a cut crocus flower doesn’t last near as long as this pretty painted one has.
Lessons From the Vegetable World included a number of flower illustrations. They were published in 1858 and now illustrator or watercolorist was credited for the work.
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.
