Magnolia in Black and Gold, Vintage Botanical Prints collection — gold wall art by RAGANA Design
Magnolia in Black and Gold — framed on a wall
Magnolia in Black and Gold — detail
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VINTAGE BOTANICAL PRINTS

Magnolia in Black and Gold

Vintage Botanical Print

White magnolia flowers and closed buds open along a dark-leaved branch, each petal traced with a fine gold line. Set against deep matte black, the picture is dramatic and elegant at once.

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It gives a bedroom, a dining room or a living room a confident, evening mood, above a bed, a sofa or a sideboard. It suits charcoal, navy, deep green, warm grey or crisp white walls.

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  • Printable digital download, around 9,000 px on the long edge
  • Samsung Frame TV version included (3840 × 2160)
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The Dark Botanical Set: The Golden Fern, Magnolia in Black and Gold & The Golden Mushrooms framed side by side – set of 3 printable wall art by RAGANA Design
Set of 3 · The Dark Botanical Set

This work together with The Golden Fern and The Golden Mushrooms — three dark-ground botanicals with gold highlights, made for a moody living room, study or dining room.

Buy all three · €19.99
Separately 3 × €9.99 = €29.97
Commercial licence for one venue: €199.99 for all three →
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Details
  • Printable digital download, around 9,000 px on the long edge
  • The commercial licence covers hotels, offices, restaurants and public spaces
  • Print it yourself at any size, on metal, acrylic, glass or fine-art paper
On a Samsung Frame TV

Every download also includes a 3840 × 2160 file made for the Samsung Frame and other art-mode TVs: the whole work, uncropped, on a quiet mat in a colour taken from the picture. Send it to the TV with the SmartThings app and show it in Art Mode. All Frame TV art →

Magnolia in Black and Gold — Samsung Frame TV art, 3840 × 2160
How large can I print it?

The file is around 9,000 px on the long edge. That prints crisply to about 75 cm on the long edge at gallery quality, and to 130–170 cm at the distance you look at a picture over furniture. Sizes, paper and framing, in detail →

Which paper or surface?

Gold on dark grounds wants a matte or satin fine-art paper (200–310 gsm), or aluminium for humid rooms; glossy photo paper turns the black into a mirror. The pale works also take satin and baryta papers.

Which licence do I need?

Personal (€9.99) covers your own home and gifts. Any business or space open to the public — a spa, clinic, hotel, office, restaurant — needs the commercial licence (€99.99, one venue, no renewal). The venue guide →

How big, and how high, on my wall?

Width of the furniture beneath divided by 1.618; centre of the picture at 150 cm from the floor. How to hang wall art using the golden ratio →

About this work

A single branch crosses the dark sheet, carrying open white magnolia flowers and plump closed buds among dark leaves. Every petal is outlined in fine gold, so the blossoms seem to glow from within. The background is a deep matte black, which turns a quiet botanical subject into something dramatic and elegant.

Antique botanical plates were almost always printed on pale paper, the plant drawn as clearly as possible for study. This picture keeps their precise outline but reverses the ground, placing the white flowers on black and letting a thin line of gold do the work an engraver's shading once did. The magnolia itself carries a piece of botanical history: the genus was named by Charles Plumier in 1703 in honour of the French botanist Pierre Magnol.

As black and gold wall art, it holds its own in a bedroom above the bed, in a dining room or above a sofa or sideboard. It suits charcoal, navy, deep green, warm grey or crisp white walls. The 7168 × 10752 px print file stays sharp to about 60 × 90 cm; a thin black or gold frame with no mat looks striking. A Frame TV version with a gallery mat is included. For the same mood on a 4K TV, pair it with Magnolia Branch on Black.

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