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Born #onthisday in 1837, A. C. Swinburne. Read Julian Barnes on when the poet had Maupassant round for lunch. A flayed human hand, porn, the serving of monkey meat + inordinate amounts of alcohol, all made for a truly strange Anglo-French encounter: https://t.co/6YzMe99w4R #OTD

Banana Tree Flower with Io Moth, by Maria Sibylla Merian — who was born #onthisday in 1647.

From her pioneering Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (Insects of Suriname), first published in 1705.

See more prints by her in our online prints shop: https://t.co/ASX37Nx31n

Trollius Europaeus (Globeflower) enlarged 5 times, from Karl Blossfeldt's stunning Urformen der Kunst (1928).

See a collection of his works digitally enhanced @byrawpixel here: https://t.co/JUFye8CMJv

Flemish face in the hills, artist unknown. Anthropomorphic landscapes were something of a meme in 17th-century Netherlandish painting. More here: https://t.co/3AkrLbfzar

Happy birthday to Irish artist Harry Clarke, born #onthisday in Dublin in 1889 (on #StPatricksDay no less). Here he is in a self-portrait as an absinthe drinking Mephistopheles from Goethe's Faust.

More in our essay "Harry Clarke’s Looking Glass" https://t.co/Kn6QPrHKWF #OTD

Jenny Watson on the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf — who died #onthisday in 1940 — and the complex depths beneath her seemingly simple tales and public persona: https://t.co/JYb2QYq6dj #otd

Happy #WorldBookDay! Explore our collection of almost 300 weird and wonderful titles from the past, all free to download and explore: https://t.co/MOrpHd35ud

(Pictured: Giuseppe Arcimboldo's The Librarian, 1566)

Sacred Egyptian Bean — one of the many exquisite illustrative plates to be found in Robert John Thornton's "The Temple of Flora" (1807).

Read more in our Martin Kemp essay here: https://t.co/SOboV41G6h

And see our Temple of Flora prints for sale here: https://t.co/XkcvZo1qro

Lady Hemlock releases Bunny Socrates from life. More from J. J. Grandville's wonderful Flowers Personified (1847) here: https://t.co/csMxYA2HE4

Highlights from John Gould's groundbreaking Mammals of Australia (1845–63) — https://t.co/cWyu1mYB4Q

Scientists estimate that the devastating #bushfires in #Australia have killed more than one billion animals.