A timeline of illustrated botanical works to 1900.

BCE

[6th-century Greek copy of

De Materia Medica | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/ViennaDioscoridesPlant00.jpg]

[13th-century Arabic copy of

De Materia Medica | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Dioscorides00.jpg]

[Tree of Life

Hortus Sanitatis 1491 | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Jacob///Meydenbach02.jpg]

[Helleborus niger

Herbarium Vivae Eicones 1530 | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Brunfels///Helleborus.jpg]

[Agave americana

Jacopo Ligozzi (1547–1627) | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Agave///americana00a.jpg]

[Plate 79

Hortus Eystettensis 1613 | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Basilius///Besler079.jpg]

[Hortus Malabaricus 1678

Nerium oleander | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Nerium///oleander00.jpg]

[Maria Sibylla Merian

1700 | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Maria-Sibylla-Merian-001.jpg]

[Plate 73

Phytanthoza iconographia 1737 | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Phytanthoza///iconographia00.jpg]

[Erythronium dens-canis

Edward Donovan 1789 | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Erythronium///dens-canis00.jpg]

[Tropaeolum majus

James Sowerby The Botanical Magazine 1790 | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/The///Botanical///Magazine%2C///Plate///23///%28Volume///1%2C///1787%29.png]

[Hemerocallis japonica

Pierre-Joseph Redouté Les liliacées 1802 | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Hemerocallis///japonica00.jpg]

[Papaver somniferum var paeoniflorum

Iwasaki Tsunemasa Illustrated Manual of Medicinal Plants 1828 | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Iwasaki///Tsunemasa00.jpg]

[Papaver bracteatum

John Lindley Collectanea botanica 1821 | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Papaver///bracteatum///RHS.jpeg]

[Phalaenopsis schilleriana

Walter Hood Fitch Select Orchidaceous Plants 1862 | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Phalaenopsis///schilleriana00.jpg]

[Cucurbita maxima

Francisco Manuel Blanco Flora de Filipinas 1877 | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Cucurbita///maxima///Blanco2.320.jpg]

[Cypripedium lathamianum

Jean Jules Linden Iconographie des Orchidées 1885 | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Cypripedium///lathamianum00.jpg]

[Diploglottis cunninghamii

Auguste Faguet Dictionnaire de botanique 1886 | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Diploglottis///cunninghamii///-///Baillon.jpg]

[Muscat Hamburgh

Handbuch der Tafeltraubenkultur 1895 | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Rudolf///Goethe04.jpg]

1–100 CE

201-300

301-400

501–600

1001–1500

1501–1600

1601–1700

1701–1800

1801–1900