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Spirit drawings from Samuel Guppy’s Mary Jane (1863) ✏️💫 Apparently ‘No colours nor pencils were put under the table - nothing but the paper.’

After an evening of seances notice was given via a oujia board "Look under the table" & the drawings were found- what talented spirits!

Argonauta or paper nautilus shells (egg sacs secreted by cephalopod females) were known as fairy boats in the Isle of Man. They were said to race across Lough Gur on moonlit nights.

Amelia Jane Murray’s ‘A Fairy Resting on a Shell’ (1800–1896) depicts such a scene. 🐚✨

On unbent leaf in fairy guise,
Reflected in the water,
Beloved, admired by hearts & eyes,
Stands Annie,
Paxton’s daughter.

The Giant Waterlily Victoria Regia (1849) in flower at Chatsworth.

(Paxton designed the Crystal Palace according to the underside of the waterlily.)

John Obadiah Westwood, 1805-1893.The Cabinet of Oriental Entomology; Being a Selection of Some of the Rarer and More Beautiful Species of Insects, Natives of India and the Adjacent Islands.

#VictoriaITV In Victoria's diary of 1841 she records Alberts brush w/ death "the ice cracked, & Albert was in the water up to his head, even for a moment below. In my agony of fright & despair I screamed & stretched out my arm... My Dearest Albert managed to catch my arm."

Carroll's poll to mothers -on if the Jabberwock, originally the frontispiece, was too terrible a monster & likely to alarm nervous children.

#FolkloreThursday Merfolk from the Caribbean & the Pacific from Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide. 🐚✨

#FolkloreThursday Dwelling in a freshwater grotto or spring, Nymphs are temporally bound to the life of a particular natural object 🌲🥀⛰✨

Christmas cards made to promote the women's suffrage campaign in the 1900s!🎄📮

A selection of natural history inspired Victorian Christmas cards. Lots of ferns, fungi, insects and shells. 🌿🐚🍄