Flindersia

Flindersia australis

The tree named for the captain, drawn by the man in the next cabin.

Book: Illustrationes Florae Novae Hollandiae
Artist: Ferdinand Bauer
Date: 1801–1806
Held by: David Rumsey Map Collection · via Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons

Flindersia australis

Format

The full-resolution scan, colour-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore, down to the stipple.

Size

$29.00

The story

The crow's ash, named for Matthew Flinders, drawn by the artist who sailed with him. The plate carries the woody seed capsule that gives the genus its character — a spiked star that splits into five boats — alongside the flowering branch. Flinders circumnavigated Australia and was then imprisoned on Mauritius for six years on the way home; Bauer waited out part of the wreck of the voyage on an island with his drawings. The plates came home. Half the expedition did not.

See it on your wall

The garden, brought indoors

Flindersia printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.

About this reproduction

A faithful reproduction of a public-domain plate held by David Rumsey Map Collection · via Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons — the work is centuries out of copyright (1801–1806).
Printed to order on archival cotton-rag stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years (inscribed pieces and atelier bouquets are set by hand and printed to order).
Colour-managed to the source scan: the hand-colour is the colourist’s, not ours. We correct nothing and invent nothing.
Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.

Why our plates cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the stipple that makes a petal look soft, the wash of the hand-colourist, the veins of the leaf — on stock made to outlive its owner. A poster reproduces the picture. This reproduces the plate.

From the same hand