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Born #OnThisDay 1781 bird artist Antoinette Pauline Jacqueline Knip née Rifer de Courcelles, 1781-1851. Responsible for the #book 'Les Pigeons'. These prints are from the 2nd ed., 1808-43, text by C.J. Temminck & Florent Prëvost. #WomensArt #SciArt #Pigeons #OTD

#Artist Joseph Smit was born on 18 July 1836. He provided much #sciart for the Proceedings of the Zoological Society (PZS) now @JZoology. Here are just a few examples of his work, original #drawings and one plate from PZS depicting a colobus monkey.

#SharkAwarenessDay has become a whole week! #SharkWeek 🦈
To begin celebrations, here are several examples of wonderful #prints depicting #sharks. All from a #book in our #specialcollections by Leopold Joseph Fitzinger, published 1864. #sciart

Frédéric Cuvier was born #OTD in 1773. These illustrations are from his 4 vol. 'Histoire naturelle des mammifères', 1824-42, written with Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. The animals were mainly depicted from life. Included is a red panda, Ailurus fulgens, which he named in 1825.

Today's #onlineartexchange is ✨glittering golds✨ so why a hummingbird? #DYK John Gould developed a technique using gold leaf to make bird illustrations iridescent as in life? Paint, the colour of the feathers was applied to gold leaf, then a glaze added: https://t.co/MaNoOCr86o

Peacock & red admiral #Butterflies are today's plates from Rösel von Rosenhof's publication, [1764] #InsectWeek21 🐛🦋
Interested in butterflies? @SaveButterflies #ButterflyCount 16 Jul-8 Aug: https://t.co/c7bCVqG5f1
& @ZSLLondonZoo #VeryHungryCaterpillar: https://t.co/Je9ZY1ICJW

Born #OTD in 1726 - Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant. Here are a few engravings from his book 'The British Zoology', 1766, this edition "published under the inspection of the Cymmrodorion Society". #SpecialCollections

Happy birthday to John Gerrard Keulemans, a Dutch natural history illustrator, who was born #OTD in 1842! #sciart

We could not miss the opportunity to share some Edward Lear parrots for #WorldParrotDay - celebrated yesterday. Lear had permission to illustrate animals in the Parrot House @ZSLLondonZoo & published these lithographs in 1832 as "Illustrations of the family of Psittacidae,..."🦜

#OnThisDay 170 years ago in 1851 - John Gould's Hummingbird House opened @zsllondonzoo
During 1851 it attracted over 75,000 visitors.
Look out for our guest #blog by Ann Datta about this incredible #exhibition, it will be going live here soon: https://t.co/SmRz1wGWcq
#OTD