Philographikon since 1974さんのイラストまとめ

Swedish girl
"Schoen Valborg"

Valborg is a Swedish festival celebrated on April 30.

Chromolithograph after R. Sterl published 1892.

https://t.co/fooivaYsMA

"Metallurgie, Fer Blanc"
Weissblech, Blechdosen, Tin, Hoja de Lata, Bianco, Forging, Schmieden
Copper engraving from the Encyclopedia by D. Diderot and J: L'Ambert.
Published in Paris in several editions ca 1770.

The modern version of Captain Cooks travels (Wikipedia) and a charming version by Brion de Tour after Jaillot dated 1790. Enjoy comparing!
https://t.co/uNS1sswZBo

Amusing #fish!
Names from top:
"A strange fish",
"Another strange fish",
"The Devil Ray"
All look like sea monsters. Obviously they are species observed in the neighborhood of Cape Mesurado in Liberia.
London, 1745-47
https://t.co/Q6oESekWT9

Rough Seas and still, glassy waters
Drama, Melancholy and Romantic

Sea rescue
Dated 1805 &
"Cap Parry" (in Canada's Northwest Territories in the Arctic Ocean), published 1840.
https://t.co/hv7yTU97B1

"#Alcea flore albo. Weisse Fellris"
"Alcea #pentaphyllea alba"
"Alcea pentaphyllea flore albo pleno"

Copper etching. Printed in color and hand-finished

Published n "Phytanthoza Iconographia"

Nuremberg, 1740
https://t.co/z9g0DKZEj4

Madelaine De Courson.
Antique Fruit Prints by Alexandre Bivort and Séraph Bavay.
These exquiste, lithographs are from "Album of Pomologie", published in Brussels, 1847-1850.
This work is truly a pomological rarity as there are only three complete copies.
https://t.co/9GlDU8bj3A

Two more...
An exceptional series of lithographs of African birds.
Excessively decorative & colorful large folio-size African bird prints: Turocos belonging to the bird family of #Musaphaga, more commonly known as #Louries.
Published: Amsterdam, 1860
https://t.co/vlzTnd4ULn

An exceptional series of lithographs of African birds.
Excessively decorative & colorful large folio-size African bird prints: Turocos belonging to the bird family of #Musaphaga, more commonly known as #Louries.
Published: Amsterdam, 1860
https://t.co/vlzTnd4ULn

#Orchids! Extraordinary large folio size - extremely rare.
From "Paradisus Vindobonensis" (Viennese Paradise)
By Anton Hartinger, Austrian flower painter and lithographer (1806 - 1890).
Sobralia Macrantha
Nat. Ord. Orchideae
Guatemala
https://t.co/Z0m3p0LuiE