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Flowers & Botanicals

3,579 works

Painting of a red lily stem with several open blooms, buds, and green leaves against a dark background.

Lily

F. L. Hoffmann, 1775

Hand-coloured engraving of a yellow iris with purple-veined falls, buds on the stem, and a long green leaf beside it.

A yellow iris (Iris variegata): flower and leaf. Coloured engraving by J. Sowerby, c. 1787, after himself

Woodblock print of two seated women and a child beside a veranda, with flowering plants and a lattice window behind them.

Madame Tang (Tō Fujin), from the series Fashionable Japanese Versions of the Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety (Fū…

Isoda Koryusai, 1764-72 (Meiwa era)

Watercolor of a flower wreath with passion flowers and lilies around a heraldic coat of arms beneath a crown, with butterflie

Alliance Coat of Arms of Cornelis Calkoen and Maria van der Merct

Maria Moninckx, 1694

Colour woodcut of cherry blossom trees over a riverbank with children, a kimono-clad woman, a mask vendor, and boats on the r

The Mukōjima embankment: a street vendor sells articles to caricatures of contemporary figures under the cherry bloss…

Kobayashi Kiyochika

Pink poinsettia-like flowers and green leaves in a watercolor design drawing, with a color swatch key at lower left.

Design Drawing

Tiffany & Co., ca. 1893

Watercolor on parchment of a pink rose and stem with a dragonfly, butterfly, bumblebee, damselfly and fly around it.

A Rose and Five Insects

Christoffel van den Berghe, 1618

Engraved title page of Gerard's Herball, 1633, with allegorical figures, ancient authors, a central title cartouche and a por

John Gerard: portrait and botanical motifs. Line engraving by J. Payne, 1633

Woodblock print of a woman in a pink kimono reaching a cherry branch as petals fall, with a kneeling woman beside a stool.

Cherry Blossoms in the Wind

Utagawa Toyokuni, late 1790s

Japanese woodblock triptych of a kabuki actor in a blue robe beside snowy pine branches, with falling snow and smoke.

The Actor Onoe Kikugoro V as the Priest Sogen (Yuki: Iwakura Sogen Onoe Baiko), from the series "Snow, Moon, and Flow…

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1890

Watercolor of wildflowers including yellow goldenrod, blue gentians, white asters and dark berries among green and rust leave

Wildflowers

Ellen Robbins, 1875

Woodblock print of two kneeling women in kimono beside a flowered folding screen, with poetry inscribed above.

Hatsuito of the Yamashiroya Likened to Bush Clover, from Beauties of the Floating World Compared to Flowers

Suzuki Harunobu, 1769-70

Woodblock print of an eggplant branch with purple fruit, white flowers, green leaves, and a gray butterfly in the upper right

Eggplant with fruit and flowers

Ônishi Chinnen, 1829

Watercolor of red and yellow flowers and banana plants before a yellow bungalow with a white roof overlooking blue sea.

Flower Garden and Bungalow, Bermuda

Winslow Homer, 1899

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in red costume with a sword, beside plum blossoms and a lattice window.

Onoe Kikugorō I as Izumi no Saburō in the Play Snowflakes: Plum Blossoms Kaomise

Ippitsusai Bunchō, 1769

Print of bundled plum blossom branches beside a pack-horse saddle, with calligraphy text in columns on the left.

Bundled plum blossom branches and pack-horse saddle

Yoshimi Rogetsu, c.1877

Watercolor of a glowing white-striped morning glory flower with green leaves against a dark blue nocturnal background.

Nocturne

John La Farge, ca. 1885

Woodblock print of a woman in a patterned kimono reading a slip of paper beside a vase of flowering plum branches.

Courtesan Reading a Poem Slip Tied to Flowers in a Vase

Ishikawa Toyonobu, mid-1740s

Pastel portrait of a young woman in a blue gown with pearls, holding a blue parrot on her hand.

A Young Lady with a Parrot

Rosalba Carriera, c. 1730

Pastel drawing of a bouquet of mixed flowers in a blue vase against a brown background, by Odilon Redon.

Bouquet of Flowers

Odilon Redon, ca. 1900-1905

Japanese woodblock print of a standing woman in a patterned kimono beside a seated attendant holding a vase with flowers and

A Lady-in-Waiting with Waist as Slender as a Willow from the series Flowers and Modern Beauties

Kikukawa Eizan, 1807

Illuminated initial A with a grotesque winged face, blue and green scrolling foliage, and yellow flowers on a gold ground.

Decorated Initial "A" with Grotesque and Flora from a Choir Book

Unknown artist, 15th century

Colored print of a family gathered around a grandmother in a white cap as a child offers her a bouquet of flowers.

Les Bouquets, ou la Fête de la Grand-Maman

Philibert-Louis Debucourt, 1788

Woodblock print of women in kimono viewing cherry blossoms on a hill, with a stone monument and pine trees behind.

Women Viewing Cherry Blossoms at Asukayama

Katsukawa Shuncho, 1780s

Miss Plum Blossom

Helen Hyde, 1897

The Bouquet of Violets

Eva Gonzalès, ca. 1877-78

Japanese woodblock print of a courtesan in a patterned kimono and hair ornaments, surrounded by red mallow flowers and green

The Courtesan Hanamurasaki of the Tsuchiya (from the series Beauties in their Finery amid Mallow Flowers)

Keisai Eisen, early or mid 1830s

Mezzotint of a lavish flower bouquet in a classical urn with cherubs, a bird nest, butterflies and a garden statue behind.

A Flower Piece, from The Houghton Gallery

Richard Earlom, 1778

Colorful folk-art Fraktur with two peacocks, two parrots, crowns, and stylized flowers in a symmetrical arrangement.

Fraktur

Johann Heinrich Otto, ca. 1770-1800

Woodblock print of cherry blossoms over a river with moored wooden boats and a woman in a grey kimono beneath wooded hills.

Eight Scenes of Cherry Blossom: Arashiyama

Yoshida Hiroshi, after 1935

Illuminated antiphonal page with an angel playing an instrument in a decorated R initial, floral border, and musical notation

Angel Playing an Instrument in a Decorated Initial "R" with Flora, Fauna and Grotesque, from an Antiphonal

Unknown artist, n.d.

Engraving of ornamental scrollwork with a central flower, nude wild folk climbing the foliage, an archer, and inscribed banne

Ornament with Flower and Eight Wild Folk

Israhel van Meckenem