Vintage Botanical Poster Illustration
MidjourneyVintage Botanical Poster Illustration is a Midjourney v7 prompt for a 2:3 herbarium-style poster. A single fern frond with exposed roots in sepia ink on aged cream paper produces a 19th-century scientific specimen aesthetic with no text or annotation lines.
Last tested: August 2026 with Midjourney v7
Part of the Midjourney prompt library · see more vintage prompts .
Prompt
A vintage botanical illustration poster of a single fern frond, full plant with root system exposed, sepia ink on aged cream paper, decorative border with small leaf motifs in each corner, scientific specimen aesthetic in the style of a 19th-century herbarium plate, no photographs, flat scan look, no text, no letters, no annotation lines, no labels --ar 2:3 --stylize 150
Settings
- Model
- Midjourney v7
- Aspect ratio
- 2:3
- Stylize
- 150
How to use this prompt
Leave annotation lines out — dotted pointer lines summon garbled Latin labels no matter how firmly you ban text, because every herbarium plate the model has seen pairs them with lettering. The specimen look survives on three cues instead: "root system exposed" makes it a full botanical plate rather than a flower study, the decorative corner border frames it as a printed sheet, and "flat scan look" renders it as an archival scan rather than a painting. Sepia ink on aged cream paper locks the vintage palette; green ink pushes it toward a modern field guide. Stylize at 150 holds the engraving line quality without drifting into watercolour wash.
Variations to try
- Swap the fern for a mushroom with cross-section showing gills and spore print
- Change the palette to green ink on white for a modern botanical poster variant
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What to do next
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For developers — copy this prompt as JSON
{
"title": "Vintage Botanical Poster Illustration",
"prompt": "A vintage botanical illustration poster of a single fern frond, full plant with root system exposed, sepia ink on aged cream paper, decorative border with small leaf motifs in each corner, scientific specimen aesthetic in the style of a 19th-century herbarium plate, no photographs, flat scan look, no text, no letters, no annotation lines, no labels --ar 2:3 --stylize 150",
"model": "Midjourney",
"model_version": "v7",
"settings": {
"aspect_ratio": "2:3",
"stylize": 150
},
"style_tags": [
"vintage",
"botanical"
],
"use_case_tags": [
"illustration",
"wall-art"
],
"source_url": "https://promptkoi.com/prompts/midjourney/vintage-botanical-poster-illustration/"
}The whole library is available as an open JSON dataset · developer docs.
