Tag: vintage illustrations
Good morning lazy Sunday!
Good morning lazy Sunday! Feeling like a slow browse through some beautiful things?Spacewhale is open 11am to 2:30pm Sunday!
Vintage poster kits
Our Vintage poster kits make turning these gorgeous Cavallini Italian paper posters/ gift wraps into stunning wall hanging art! Sold as beautiful individual papers or buy the kit!
Kazumasa Ogawa
Kazumasa Ogawa’s stunning Lotus Flowers print a hand coloured collotype c1887 original on display at the Rijksmuseum available in museum quality prints framed or unframed in various sizes at SpaceWhale.
The Temple of Flora
The plates in Robert John Thornton’s (c. 1768–1837) The Temple of Flora remain outstanding and unique. Neither before nor after Thornton has anyone created such compellingly images of flowers, set portrait-like in their typical landscapes, though his attempt to publish The Temple of Flora bankrupted him. This beautiful print of the The Night–Blowing Cereus depicts…
The lost art of letter writing!
The lost art of letter writing! Handwriting; paper; letters: they are drifting from our lives. But here at Spacewhale we cannot resist beautiful stationary! These beautiful art papers are in Lettersets, Gift Wrap, & stickers for those special gifts as well as cool table place mats – perfect for your next dinner party!
Pierre-Joseph Redouté
Pierre-Joseph Redouté 1759 –1840, was a painter & botanist from Belgium, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers, many of which were published as large, color stipple engravings. He was nicknamed “the Raphael of flowers” and has been called the greatest botanical illustrator of all time. Redoute taught and painted up to…
John James Audubon Birds of America
Often cited as “the most expensive book of all time,” there are still 120 known intact copies of John James Audubon’s The Birds of America published between 1827 & 1838. While there are a handful of books in the world that may be worth more, until 2013 Birds of America held the record for the…
Émile Alain Séguy
Émile Alain Séguy is today considered one of the major and influential artists of the Art Deco period. He is the author of two collections of boards on insects. The first, published in 1928, is devoted to butterflies, the second in 1929, to insects. Both publications are exquisite plates in coloured phototype patterns in stunning…
