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Happy birthday to John James #Audubon, born #OTD in 1785. His most famous work, "The Birds of America," consists of 435 hand-colored, life-size prints; and includes images of several birds that are now extinct, like the great auk and the passenger pigeon. https://t.co/xOKpHhpA9j
"While celebrating the beauty of the Indian landscape, these images also allude, however indirectly, to the violence that lies at the heart of empire building." Head to Verso for more about "Prospects of India," on view now in the #HuntingtonArtGallery. https://t.co/feW5ylajEX
Fun #Halloween fact: Did you know that Mary Shelley’s famous work of fiction, #Frankenstein, was actually influenced by REAL experiments involving electricity and human cadavers? Read all about it over on our Instagram: https://t.co/rJJlQo1ni9
One of the few female landscape architects in the early 20th-century, Beatrix Farrand was also one of the most successful, creating designs for institutions like @Yale, @Occidental, @Princeton, and you guessed it - The Huntington. More on Verso: https://t.co/SKV1RRZjCd
Happy #NationalSunglassesDay from our #histsci collections! If you're experimenting with amplified sunlight today (like Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier), be sure to protect your peepers. https://t.co/WhWMC4oofQ
Can a two-dimensional print be as powerful as a piece of sculpture? Visitors can explore that question in a new exhibition of the graphic work of modernist sculptor #HenryMoore, opening this weekend (June 16). https://t.co/TIHL4FlUlR
Are you wearing green today for #StPatricksDay? For St. Paddy himself, the color of choice was blue, as seen in the earliest known portrait of Ireland's patron saint, from a 13th-century manuscript in The Huntington's collection.
For #WorldBookDay, we give you the world.
Ptolemy's "Geographia," printed by Johann Reger for Justus de Albano, Ulm, 1486. On view in the Library Exhibition Hall.
@FIDMMuseum @Mugler @DescansoGardens Let's be one of those matchy-matchy couples. 👯♀️ https://t.co/z6DBAGCBLF #MuseumMatch
Even the plants are feeling the love on #ValentinesDay. Check out these cordiform (heart-shaped) plants from around the gardens: https://t.co/4NydIiQBDZ