illustrations

the plants and insects on this site come from old natural history books. all of them are in the public domain. we cut them out of the page and recoloured them to match.

• common ivy (hedera helix), woodcut

  Leonhart Fuchs, De historia stirpium commentarii insignes, Basel, 1542, page 423

  Public domain (PD-scan, PD-old-70-1923). source

• climbing fumitory (adlumia), wood engraving

  The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, New York, 1897

  Public domain, published 1897 (Commons: no known copyright restrictions, Internet Archive Book Images). source

• butterfly, wood engraving

  Helen S. Conant, The Butterfly Hunters, Boston, 1868, page 120

  Public domain, published 1868 (Commons: no known copyright restrictions, Internet Archive Book Images). source

• moth, wood engraving

  Helen S. Conant, The Butterfly Hunters, Boston, 1868, page 164

  Public domain, published 1868 (Commons: no known copyright restrictions, Internet Archive Book Images). source

• lady fern (athyrium filix-femina), nature print

  Thomas Moore and John Lindley, The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland, nature printed by Henry Bradbury, London, 1857

  Public domain (PD-Art, PD-old). source

• male fern (dryopteris filix-mas), woodcut

  Leonhart Fuchs, De historia stirpium commentarii insignes, Basel, 1542, page 595

  Public domain (PD-scan, PD-old-70-1923). source

• common polypody fern (polypodium), woodcut

  Leonhart Fuchs, De historia stirpium commentarii insignes, Basel, 1542, page 588

  Public domain (PD-scan, PD-old-70-1923). source

• oat (avena), woodcut

  Leonhart Fuchs, De historia stirpium commentarii insignes, Basel, 1542, page 185

  Public domain (PD-scan, PD-old-70-1923). source

• grape vine (vitis vinifera), woodcut, the whole plant upright

  Leonhart Fuchs, De historia stirpium commentarii insignes, Basel, 1542, page 84

  Public domain (PD-scan, PD-old-70-1923). source

• grape vine (vitis vinifera), woodcut, shown upside down so it hangs

  Leonhart Fuchs, De historia stirpium commentarii insignes, Basel, 1542, page 84

  Public domain (PD-scan, PD-old-70-1923). source

the world, the grass block, the paper texture and the sapling mark are our own.