Art History Animaliaさんのイラストまとめ

My face when I realize that #WorldFrogDay is over already even though I still had lots more #frogs to share waiting in queue…

Frog, #woodblock print by Matsumoto Hoji (松本奉時) in the Meika gafu (名家画譜), #Japan, published 1814. @britishmuseum: https://t.co/pTAx9juxr9

#WatercolorWednesday: Samuel Daniell, A Landscape in Ceylon with Barking Deer and Fawn and a Pair of Paradise Fly-Catchers, 1808-11. Species are the Southern Red Muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak) & white morph Indian Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone paradisi). @YaleBritishArt.

For #WorldSerpentDay: Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent deity of the Aztecs, shown here in full zoomorphic form snacking on a human in the Codex Telleriano-Remensis, c. 1563.
@GallicaBnF MS Mexicain 385 f. 18r: https://t.co/cjwTelXo3k

Most of the illustrations in Thomas Pennant's (1726-1798) Synopsis of Quadrupeds (1771) were reused for History of Quadrupeds (1781), but the opossum got a dramatic makeover:
(@Lignedescience look - they switched out a lean machine for CHONK lol)

Happy #WorldOkapiDay! Here's the first published image of an Okapi (Okapia johnstoni) from 1901 by @OfficialZSL fellow Sir Harry Johnston. Quite good #SciArt considering he hadn't yet seen a live one and only had a skin, skull, and verbal descriptions to work with! @okapiproject