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@eatLocalGrown "Paraguay - Monographie du Mate - Monographie des Mate"
Hand-colored steel engraving
Published in Paris, 1840

@orchidcommittee Thyrsacanthus Schomburgkianus
Dendrobium Nobile
from
"Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants" by Paxton, 1841-1852
Lithographs in Original Hand coloring.

@curiouswavefn "Kolumbus sucht das Koeningspaar Ferdinand und Isabella von Spanien im Lager zu Santa Fe vor Granada…"
(In Santa Fe near Granada, Columbus tries to get the support of Ferdinand and Isabella for his exploration plans) 1879.
#Columbus

Catesby are the best! Mark Catesby was born in England. His first journey to the United States took place between 1712 & 1719. He had a sharp observing eye and began to depict animals, reptiles, insects & plants which he later published in London as Natural History of Carolina...

Bacchanal Parade in antique times.
Lead by a faun-family (mother father child fauns) we see a happy go lucky bacchanal parade on the way to a lustful event.
By Cornelis Vermeulen (ca. 1644-1709)
Paris, ca. 1690
https://t.co/Uethhb3QLj

Amphitrite, Poseidon's (Neptune's) wife.

https://t.co/PjAelNgPwV

Enjoy these parrots!!
After Edwards.

Seligmann, Johann Michael (engraver and art dealer in Nuremberg 1720-1762)
https://t.co/OHe6pEsImG

Funny fish!
The fish on this print named from top: "A strange fish", "Another strange fish", "The Devil Ray" look like sea monsters. Obviously they are species observed in the neighborhood of Cape Mesurado in Liberia.
https://t.co/qjK2NPljeW

Architecture and Astronomy
Stipple engraving by S. Chapman after R. Corbould, dated 1803. Original hand coloring. #Equinox #summerequinox #winterequinox

@simongerman600 @PodcastFear Copper etching by Raphael Sadeler
after Maarten de Vos (*1532).
Other three plates of this series: ADOLESCENTIA - AMOR, LUTES IN ART - ABOR
Plate 4 of a series: The Four Ages of Man
An old man, slumped on a chair, obviously in pain, his eyes focusing the void in the distance…