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For day 2 of our #12DaysofCrustmas an engraving from Catesby, publ. 1731-43.
More about Mark Catesby in our blog by Emma: https://t.co/COwiZ1uDv6 #Crustmas #Early #12DaysOfChristmas #SciArt
It is #NationalTreeWeek so we are taking the opportunity to highlight some trees species you can see @ZSLLondonZoo & also engravings in Mark Catesby's 'The natural history of Carolina, Florida & the Bahama Islands,...' publ. 1731-43.
1st - Magnolia grandiflora by Georg D. Ehret.
#DYK that as well as #Halloween today is also the final day of #BatWeek? To celebrate here is a print of various bats from Ernst Haeckel's 'Kunstformen der Natur' (Artforms in nature), 1899-1904. More about Haeckel in our blog from 2017: https://t.co/p2yQettBgn #HappyHalloween
Happy birthday Maria Merian born #OTD in 1647. Artist, entomologist &, #HERper. Her #book on insects of Surinam is one of our favourites & we often feature it in our tweets. More in our blog: https://t.co/3BBIt38C1I #SciArt #EntHist #WomenInSTEM
On 21 February 1918, the last Carolina parakeet in captivity died at Cincinnati Zoo. The American Ornithologists' Union declared the birds #extinct in 1939. This engraving is by Mark Catesby, publ. 1731-43. More about Catesby & his legacy in our blog: https://t.co/COwiZ1d2Dy
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins was #BornOnThisDay in 1807. #Artist & #sculptor, known for the #dinosaurs in Crystal Palace Park in London. The #SpecialCollections in #ZSLLibrary includes a few original #paintings by Hawkins.
#SciArt #BOTD #OTD
Attending #ZSLTalks Tues 11 Feb? We have a short #free talk beforehand at 4.45pm in #ZSLLibrary about our #SpecialCollections, featuring this time, Victorian wildlife artist Joseph Wolf, as we continue to celebrate his bicentenary. These #paintings & prints are our favourites!
Born #OTD in 1708 Georg Dionysius Ehret. He provided watercolours to Mark Catesby who then etched them for his book 'The natural history of Carolina, Florida & the Bahama Islands,...' publ. 1731-43. More on Catesby in our blog: https://t.co/COwiZ1d2Dy
#SciArt
#Librarian Ann has chosen another favourite Joseph Wolf #painting, this is her favourite depicting #mammals, last week she chose her favourite painting of birds. Wolf used the famous ZSL elephants #Jumbo & Alice as models for these African #elephants at a water hole. #SciArt
A small selection of #Australian #mammals from John Gould's 'The Mammals of Australia', [1845-]63 for #AustraliaDay. Lithographed by Henry Constantine Richter. #SciArt #echidnas #dingo #kangaroo #wombat