The Collection

• Henry Craven Baildon

  • Nature printed ferns, 186* (see sample illustration on this page)

  Frederick Manson Bailey & Karl Theodor Staiger

  • An illustrated monograph of the grasses of Queensland, 1879

  Paulo Boccone (1633-1704)

  • A small collection of nature prints of Sicilian plants made in the late 17^th century

  Henry Riley Bradbury (1829-1860)

  • A few leaves represented by nature printing, 1854
  • Published works on ferns and seaweeds

  Hugh Cleghorn (1820-1895)

  • Numerous original works made in the Madras Presidency by  Cleghorn in the 1850s.
  • see also The Indian Collections

• John Frederick Doughty (1943- )

  Born in Denver, Colorado, John Doughty is a self-taught printer, making his first nature prints in 1980.

  • A collection of 26 nature prints, 2001-2010 (see sample illustration on this page)
    • Index to the John Frederick Doughty collection (odt) 
    • Index to the John Frederick Doughty collection (pdf)

  Johann Jakob Hunziker (1831-1923)

  • Nature’s Selfprinting, Mangalore, 1862

  Johann Hieronymus Kniphof (1704-1763)

  • Botanica in Originali seu Herbarium vivum - published in the 1760s in twelve parts, each with 100 plants

  Henry Smith

  • Nature Printing from Unprepared Plants, Madras, 1857

  Catherine Mary Stirling [née Wellings] (1819-1879)

  The wife of John Stirling (1811-1882), 7^th of Kippendavie (Kippenross), Catherine wrote up her method of nature printing in a communication read by Thomas Croxen Archer to a meeting of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, See Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, 7: 529-530 (1863) 

  • Bound volume of 25 sheets of entitled Pencil Sketches of Plant Leaves, 1861
    • Index to the Catherine Mary Stirling collection [docx]
    • Index to the Catherine Mary Stirling collection [odt]