UIG are pleased to add the Florilegius collection to our archive. Florilegius, the passion of collector Richard Jeffery, offers more than 35,000 engravings, illustrations, archival prints, and lithographs of a variety of subjects.
Well-known for its deep coverage of botanical illustrations, Florilegius built its comprehensive botanical image archive from its collection of flower magazines, botany books and gardening manuals, published between 1750 and 1900. The collection grew to include vast amounts of other subjects, including illustrations of birds and animals (including extinct and endangered species); historical fashion; antique maps; notable persons in history; and cultural heritage.
All Florilegius images are now available from UIG for licensing. Please enjoy the attached slideshow as an introduction of the many subjects available from this beautiful new collection.
Merian duck Anas merianae 
Dimetrodon dollovianus. 
The skeleton of Death appears before the telescope of the old astronomer 
Great boa Boa constrictor 
Carriage of Friedrich, Prince of Schwarzenberg, Ambassador Extraordinary of the Emperor of Austria in Queen Victoria’s coronation parade. 
Regency gentlemen and ladies playing a game of Pope Joan. 
View of the Staubbach Falls, Bernese Highlands, Switzerland 
French women’s fashions of 1750. 
Cuirassiers, hussars and dragoons or heavy cavalry of the (German or Holy Roman Empire) Imperial Army, 19th century. 
Interior of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, 1800s. 
Johnny Newcome drinking grog in the cockpit with other middys (midshipmen), HMS Victory. 
Corocoro boat with sails and oars from the island of Guebe, Maluku Islands, Indonesia, 19th century. 
Chinese stage cart, Qing Dynasty. 
Black pine or Austrian pine, Pinus nigra subsp. laricio, Pinus laricio, Pin laricio. 
Mongoose lemur, Eulemur mongoz. Critically endangered. Lemur mongoz Linn. 
Great auk, Pinguinus impennis 1, exctinct, and Brazilian sandperch, Pinguipes brasilianus 2. Pingouin, Pinguipes. 
Western grasswren, Amytornis textilis 1 and common blackbird with nest and eggs, Turdus merula 2. Merion, Merle commun. 
Mounted bodyguard to the Sheikh of Bornu along with Kanembu lancer and Munga archer, Kanem-Bornu Empire, 19th century. 
Samurai receiving a letter from a courtesan in the pleasure quarters. 
Passion fruit or granadilla, Passiflora ligularis (Clematis passionalis) and meadow saffron, Colchicum autumnale. 
Cuchulain comes at last to his death. Killed by a magical spear made by Lugaid, son of Cu Roi. 
The Lady Mary, daughter of King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, later Queen Mary I of England (1516-1558). 
Great grey shrike, Lanius excubitor a, red-backed shrike with cricket, Lanius collurio b, lesser grey shrike with bee on thorn, Lanius minor c, scarlet macaw, Ara macao d, Alexandrine parakeet, Psittacula eupatria e, and red-tailed black cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus banksii f.
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