Botanical Art Prints

How each botanical art print is made

Every illustration in this collection begins the same way — with a living specimen on the desk, studied under natural light, and drawn by hand. The method follows the tradition of 18th-century scientific botanical art, where accuracy matters more than decoration: each petal count, each leaf vein, each shift in colour is recorded from direct observation rather than from a photograph.

In total, the collection documents 47 species across four groups — flowers, plants and fruits, fungi, and insects — many of them observed around Lake Como in northern Italy, where Fiurdelin is based. Subjects range from common European wildflowers such as dandelions and snowdrops to less familiar species like Pinguicula alpina, a carnivorous plant of Alpine streams, and Rosalia alpina, one of Europe’s rarest longhorn beetles. You can read more about this art-and-science approach on the about Fiurdelin page.

Printing and display

Each botanical art print is delivered as a high-resolution digital file, so you can print it at any size through a home printer or a local print shop. The originals are drawn at 600 DPI, which means the detail holds from postcard size right up to a large wall format. If you are looking for a species not yet in the collection, get in touch — new illustrations are added regularly, based on seasonal observation and collector requests.