The Golden Herbarium

Vintage Botanical Landscape Art

Pressed leaves of oak, maple, ginkgo, beech and fern are laid out in loose rows like a herbarium sheet. Greens, reds, ambers and gold glow softly against muted sage green.

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Ideal for a study, living room or hallway, above a desk, sofa or console on white, sage or warm wood-toned walls; on a Samsung Frame or other 4K TV it reads like a calm specimen cabinet.

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Print file: 7,680 × 4,320 px — sharp to about 65 cm wide at 300 dpi
4K TV pack: 3840 × 2160 for the Samsung Frame and 4K TVs, plus 2560 × 1440 and 1920 × 1080
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Print file: 7,680 × 4,320 px — sharp to about 65 cm wide at 300 dpi
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 4K TV or Samsung Frame

This work is drawn for screens: the 4K TV pack holds 3840 × 2160 for the Samsung Frame and other 4K TVs, plus 2560 × 1440 and 1920 × 1080 for older sets, monitors and digital frames. The picture fills the screen edge to edge, so no mat is needed. All about 4K TV art →

The Golden Herbarium — 4K TV art, 3840 × 2160

How large can I print it?

The print file is 7,680 × 4,320 px. That prints crisply to about 65 × 37 cm at gallery quality, and to about 130 × 73 cm at the distance you look at a picture over a sofa. 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

The Golden Herbarium arranges many pressed leaves in loose rows across a wide sheet: oak, maple, ginkgo, beech and fern, each laid flat as if mounted by a collector. Their colours run from fresh and deep greens through reds and ambers to gold, all set on a muted sage-green background that keeps the whole composition quiet.

Botanists have pressed and dried plants on paper sheets since the 16th century, building herbaria that still serve science today. A herbarium sheet is a record, but it also has an orderly beauty that collectors have long admired. Among these leaves, the fan-shaped ginkgo carries a special story: it is often called a living fossil, the last surviving species of a plant group known from fossils more than 200 million years old.

The print file is 7680 × 4320 px, about 65 cm wide at 300 dpi, made as sage green wall art above a desk, sofa or console on white, sage or warm wood-toned walls. The separate 4K TV pack contains 3840 × 2160 for the Samsung Frame or any 4K art-mode TV, plus 2560 × 1440 and 1920 × 1080. Hang Golden Ginkgo nearby to pick up the gilded fan leaves in portrait.

The Golden Herbarium

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