Botanical Silhouettes
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Red Rose
A nineteenth-century botanical emblem of love, with period flower dictionaries specifically linking the red rose with beauty and romantic affection.
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Forget-Me-Not
A nineteenth-century floral emblem of remembrance, the forget-me-not was explicitly linked with true love and enduring memory in period flower dictionaries.
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Rosemary
Rosemary carried a well-established association with remembrance, reinforced in nineteenth-century flower dictionaries and a much older literary tradition of memory.
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Ivy
An evergreen emblem of fidelity and attachment, ivy appears in nineteenth-century flower dictionaries with meanings centred on faithfulness, friendship and enduring bonds.
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Pansy
In nineteenth-century flower dictionaries, the pansy was characteristically an emblem of thought, remembrance and affectionate reflection—an association echoed by its older name, heartsease.
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Lily of the Valley
Lily of the valley was a distinctive nineteenth-century emblem of the return of happiness, a hopeful meaning repeatedly recorded in language-of-flowers dictionaries.
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Sweet Violet
The sweet violet was a nineteenth-century floral emblem of modesty, its low-growing, fragrant blooms lending themselves naturally to the period's language of restrained virtue.
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Daffodil
In late nineteenth-century floriography the daffodil carried the concise meaning “regard,” distinct from the related narcissus and jonquil entries found in flower dictionaries.
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Hawthorn
Hawthorn was a nineteenth-century emblem of hope—more particularly a lover's hope in one period account—with its May blossom also carrying older associations with courtship and marriage.
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White Heather
White heather became a late nineteenth-century emblem of good luck, developing a distinctly Scottish association that differed from earlier flower-dictionary meanings for heath or heather generally.
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Fern
The fern carried the meaning “fascination” in late nineteenth-century floriography, while period dictionaries treated the separately named flowering fern as a different emblem associated with reverie.
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Myrtle
Myrtle was a well-established nineteenth-century floral emblem of love, reinforced by older associations with Venus and by its prominent place in Victorian bridal tradition.
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Oak Leaf
Late nineteenth-century flower dictionaries distinguished oak leaves from the oak tree itself, assigning the leaves the specific emblematic meaning of bravery.
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Yew
The yew was repeatedly identified with sorrow in nineteenth-century flower dictionaries, an association reinforced by its dark evergreen foliage and long presence in churchyards and burial grounds.
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Cypress
Cypress was an explicit nineteenth-century emblem of mourning, its long funerary history and association with graves making it one of floriography's clearest symbols of grief.
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Red Poppy
In nineteenth-century floral language the red poppy symbolised consolation, while its now-familiar association with remembrance belongs primarily to the twentieth-century aftermath of the First World War.
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Camellia
Nineteenth-century flower dictionaries linked Camellia japonica with modest merit or excellence, while colour-specific entries gave red and white camellias distinct meanings.
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Peony
Peony carried surprisingly uneasy meanings in nineteenth-century floriography: period dictionaries record anger, shame and bashfulness rather than the modern prosperity-focused symbolism often encountered today.
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Primrose
The ordinary primrose was associated with early youth in late nineteenth-century floriography, while red and evening primroses were treated as separate emblems with different meanings.
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Common Daisy
The common daisy was a clear nineteenth-century emblem of innocence, while period flower dictionaries gave separately named garden, wild and party-coloured daisies their own meanings.
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Sunflower
Victorian flower dictionaries did not give the sunflower one universal meaning: Kate Greenaway distinguished dwarf sunflower as adoration and tall sunflower as haughtiness.
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Red Tulip
Late nineteenth-century flower dictionaries gave the red tulip the particularly direct message “declaration of love,” distinguishing it from generic, yellow and variegated tulips.
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Honeysuckle
Honeysuckle was an emblem of generous and devoted affection in late nineteenth-century floriography, its twining growth providing a natural image of close and enduring attachment.
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Wisteria
Wisteria was a recognised nineteenth-century ornamental climber, but the familiar meaning “welcome” is not securely evidenced in the major Victorian flower dictionary checked here and is better treated as a later association.
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Laurel
Laurel was a clear late-Victorian emblem of glory, continuing an older classical association with honour and victory while period dictionaries distinguished several other plants bearing the laurel name.
About this collection
Botanical Silhouettes brings together 25 flowers, leaves and plants rendered as bold, simplified botanical emblems. Inspired by nineteenth-century botanical illustration and decorative arts, the collection focuses on recognisable plant forms translated into clean silhouettes suitable for engraving, cutting and print. Many of these plants also appear in historical traditions of botanical symbolism. Where a historical symbolic association is documented, individual entries should distinguish period evidence from later or modern interpretations.
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