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Happy birthday Jacob Grimm! The elder of the brotherly folklorist duo was born #onthisday in Hanau, Germany, 1785: https://t.co/l4e9CEFds6
The wonderful 16th-century "ornament prints" of Cornelis Floris and others: https://t.co/TI2vQb2m37
Hummingbirds: from Art Forms in Nature by Ernst Haeckel, who died #onthisday in 1919: https://t.co/MxI31jCihI
Page from "Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing", 17th.c. https://t.co/3ysGHuDJpW
Sketches by Japanese artist Yoshitoshi, who died #onthisday in 1892: https://t.co/IV2c0LvCas
One of many multicoloured monsters in margins of 15thc. Book of Hours. See more here: https://t.co/iPdONzrCnR
New Essay — "Copying Pictures, Evidencing Evolution", on the story of Haeckel's embryos: https://t.co/O2r3WfqfvT
Strange beasts abound in Arnoldus Montanus’ The New & Unknown World (1671). More here: https://t.co/jOdCye9Rhc
The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife (1814) by Hokusai, who died #onthisday in 1849: https://t.co/Wu2VTs6Mgg
Scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Blake, ca. 1825 https://t.co/BNTyH5NJuu #Shakespeare400