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@MBoghag "Rose à cent feuilles - Jasmin d'Espagne et Myosotis" 1824
"Rose des Peintres (Tribu des Cent-feuilles)" 1845
"Rosa Pomponia - Rosier Pompom" 1828-1837
"Rosa Pumila Rosier d'Amour" 1828-1837
#roses #Redouté Annica #Bricogne #jasmine #forgetmenot #Spaendonck #Centifolia 
"Aethiopia Inferior vel Exterior"
Copper engraving map of South Africa.
By Willem Janszoon Bleau ca 1640. Published in Amsterdam.
Most of the known settlements are shown along the coasts. 
"Brasilianischer Kalmar Riesenkraken ein Segelschiff ueberfallend"
(attacking a sailing vessel)
Wood engravings printed in color after Denys Montfort ca 1905.
 #NHL #seattlekraken #Kraken #SeattleNHL #seattle #Octopus 
It's #NationalPetsDay
"Le Chien du Louvre"
This well known Paris dog refused to leave the grave of its master,
a soldier, killed in the 1830 revolution.
This is a toned lithograph after the artist Victor Adam.
It was published 1884.
 #NationalPetDay2022 #NationalPetDay 
Bigarreau Common
Engraved by Bouquet after Poiteau.
Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau: Traité des arbres fruitiers. 
"Diana Cacciatrice"
Copper etching by Carlo Carloni
After the drawing by Vincenzo Dolcibene
Piublished in: "Il Museo Pio Clementino"
Rome, 1782
Diana - Roman Goddess of Hunting (Greek mythology: Artemis), patroness also of countryside and of the Moon. 
"Apollo, E Dafne Del Cavalier Gio. Lorenzo Bernini"
Negl'orti Borghesii 
"The Cyclops at their Forge"
Velvety mezzotint copper print of the highest quality.
Engraver: John Murphy (ca. 1740-ca. 1820)
after the painting by Luca Giordano (1634-1705)
Publisher: John & Josua Boydell
London, dated 1788 
@museumbooks Liberia. -"Fish of Cape Mesurado"
Hand-colored copper etching by G. Child
Published in: "Eine neue allgemeine Sammlung von Fahrten und Reisen"
English edition.
Publisher: Thomas Astley
London, 1745-47 
@Al_Stoyanov "Accurate Vorstellung de Hoch Fürstl. Bischöffl. Residenz and Haupt-Stadt Würzburg des Herzogthums Franken..." Copper etching by Johann Baptist Homann in original hand coloring. Nuremberg, 1723.