The Shrubby St John’s Wort

Hypericum prolificum

From the imperial garden at Schönbrunn, drawn under an emperor’s patronage.

Book: Plantarum Rariorum Horti Caesarei Schoenbrunnensis
Artist: Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin
Date: 1797–1804
Held by: Wikimedia Commons

Hypericum prolificum

Format

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

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The story

Jacquin ran the imperial gardens at Schönbrunn and the botanical garden in Vienna, and had been sent to the Caribbean in his twenties by the Emperor with instructions to bring back plants — which he did, in quantity, having survived shipwreck and fever. The four folio volumes of the Schönbrunn plants are the record of what an emperor's collection actually contained in 1800. A shrubby St John's wort from North America, growing in Vienna. The eighteenth century moved plants the way it moved people.

See it on your wall

The garden, brought indoors

The Shrubby St John’s Wort printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.

The Shrubby St John’s Wort framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A faithful reproduction of a public-domain plate held by Wikimedia Commons — the work is centuries out of copyright (1797–1804).
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.
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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