I love finding wonderful hand-colored book plates but when they’re flowers, they just seem a little bit more special. This purple flower book plate was identified as being a drawing of an orchid. I’m not sure if the colorist chose the color on their own or the book’s author suggested it, but either way, I think it came out beautiful.
In this purple orchid plant drawing, we have the entire plant frrchidm roots to flower tips. I’m sure there’s someone that will find a great use for this public domain flower image.
This is one of a number of plant images which appeared in the 1858 publication Lessons From the Vegetable World.
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.
