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@kenyapics @lokka_oyvind Lithographs of African birds
"De Toerako's afgebeeld en beschreven"
Publishers: Hermann Schlegel and G.F. Westermann
Lithographer: P.W.M. Trap
Published: Amsterdam, 1860
Size: ca. 72 x 52 cm (ca. 28 x 20")
#Musophaga
@NatGeo "Arbor foliis pinnatis Spica fericea Alp. Vipera nigra"(Mark Catesby)
"Vipera Ferro Di Lancia - Vipera lanceolata" (from the "Atlante Zoologico Popolare" published in Naples (1863) by Giovanni Boschi)
https://t.co/f2J2eDUoel
"Momordica, vulgo Balsamina Balsam oepffel"
This woodcut comes from the Czech edition of the "Herbarium Bohemiae " ca. 1590!
Herb and medicine plant (Foto - Wikipedia)
https://t.co/1ezpY4UMH0
Open a bottle of your favorite wine and take a guess where this scene takes place...
A - France
B - Hungary
C - Italy
D - Croatia
"a. Albies major Sapin. Tannenbaum"
"b. Albies foliis minoribus. Dielen-baum"
"c. Albies Taxi folio. Tax Tannen"
Published n "Phytanthoza Iconographia"
Nuremberg, 1740
https://t.co/W1RlaYR1YZ
"1. Phasianelle - 2. Phasme"
Copper etching. Original hand coloring.
Ca. 1830
Two-striped walking stick - Phasmatidae - Anisomorphia buprestoides https://t.co/8PLmLEpRk3
Stunning beetles from Diderot's Encyclopaedia.
Copper etching from "Histoire Naturelle", published 1751 in Paris. https://t.co/3pLYfmjYFX
@AimeeMaroux "Amphitrite portes sur les eaux" (Amphitrite carried across the waters)
Copper etching by Marais after the painting by Lucas Giordano
Published in "Tableaux, Statues, Bas-Reliefs et Camees de la Galerie de Florence et du Palazzo Pitti"
Florence, 1789-1807
March. One of an everlasting calendar
A series of the 12 months of a year.
Hand-colored copper etchings by different engravers after the paintings by William Hamilton (1751-1801) https://t.co/U1mhXmYGJK
@kathrynw5 Copper etching by Raphael Sadeler (father 1560-1632)
after Maarten de Vos (1532-1603)
The other three plates of this series: ADOLESCENTIA - AMOR, LUTES IN ART - ABOR
Plate 4 of a series: The Four Ages of Man