The spring makes me think of flowers and tropical botanicals. Whereas for fall, I think of more woodland vintage botanical prints.
Pine cones and acorns make me think of fall, and I love to decorate my home with these vintage botanical images. Also, living in the Northern Hemisphere, woodland foliage is the one I’m most used to seeing.
I think a gallery wall of botanical prints can look amazing on the living room wall. If you are looking for vintage botanical print gallery wall inspiration, you should check out this post from the Painted Hive.
Or you can craft with these images and make some gorgeous bunting with the woodland prints to decorate your home for fall, like this bunting from fleaingFrance.com.
Free Woodland Vintage Botanical Prints For Fall
The PDF downloaded vintage botanical prints will be of a higher resolution than the images below.
Just click on the highlighted title link to download the prints, and a PDF of the botanical print will automatically download to your device. For illustrations of whole trees, check out the stunning tree posters of Larousse.
Acorns and Oaks
Acorns are a great symbol of autumn and fall. It’s not just the squirrels that ate them in the past. They were an important food source for Native American Indians.
The acorn was a popular motif in Roman architecture. It’s also a common symbol in Scandinavian art and is used as adornments on furniture, jewellery and cutlery. It also appears on finials at many churches, including Westminster Abbey.
1.White Oak – Histoire des arbres forestiers de l’Amérique (1812)
2. Black Jack Oak – Histoire des arbres forestiers de l’Amérique (1812)
3. Grey Oak – Histoire des arbres forestiers de l’Amérique (1812)
4. Austrian Oak – Traite des arbres forestiers (1824)
5. Chestnut White Oak – Histoire des arbres forestiers de l’Amérique (1812)
Pine, fir, conifer and spruces
There are lots of different types of conifer/pine trees. These pine cones are often collected and used for home decorations and wreaths. There are hundreds of arts and crafts on Pinterest using pine cones. They also make for great vintage botanical prints.
6. Norwegian Spruce – Billeder af nordens flora 1917
This is probably one of the most common spruces to be used as Christmas trees.
7. Brazilian Pine – 1824
Even though this isn’t a typical shape for a pine cone, this has to be one of my favourite vintage pine cone drawings.
8. Longleaf (Indian) Pine – 1824
9. Stone Pine – 1824
Here’s another close-up illustration of the Stone Pine cone.
10. Pitch Pine -1824
There are some excellent woodland leaf prints here and autumn leaf charts here. You might also like this cute paper oak leaf fall craft. This Christmas Botanical print collection has a beautiful print of a Nordmann fir.
Ferns are often found in woodland areas, so you may also enjoy these vintage fern prints.
For more stylised vintage woodland art prints, check out those in “Die Pflanze in Kunst und Gewerbe “. Translates as The Plant in Arts and Craft 1886.
You might want to check out these beautiful free vintage flower pictures to download.
Check out this collection if you are looking for woodland creatures to compliment these woodland botanicals.
Damaris
Tuesday 1st of August 2023
wonderful pictures!
claire
Tuesday 1st of August 2023
Cheers and thank you.
Maria
Sunday 2nd of October 2022
Wow! I love these! I'm going to do several projects, one being a simple wooden, magnetic frame for quick fall decor and who knows what else?
Thank you so much for sharing these beauties!
claire
Monday 3rd of October 2022
Thank you, those magnetic frames are great and the prints would look good in them.
Sara
Tuesday 22nd of September 2020
Thank you so much for providing these! They are beautiful. I just tried printing the Austrian oak but it says the URL is broken. Am I doing something wrong?
Thank you!
claire
Tuesday 22nd of September 2020
Thank you, I have fixed the link so the download should work now.
Lee Lindsay
Tuesday 11th of August 2020
HI Claire, Is it possible to fix the link for the Austrian Oak? I cannot open the site. Do you have any companions to this print? I am looking for the paler background and soft colors of this oak. Thanks, Lee
claire
Wednesday 19th of August 2020
Sorry about the broken link, it has been fixed now.
Angela
Sunday 9th of August 2020
Thank you for these
claire
Sunday 9th of August 2020
You’re welcome, thank you 😊