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Beautiful gouaches. Published in "Tableaux, statues, bas-reliefs e camees de la Galerie de Florence et duy Palais Pitti"
Florence, 1789-1807
1. Mercury, Hermes
2. Apoll, Apollon
3. Amor and Mars (Ares)
4. A sacrifice
https://t.co/BIopnhORue

#Orpheus -wonderful Mezzotint by Richard #Earlom
Title is misleading as Orpheus, the gifted and blessed singer and musician is shown as a miniature figure, with a horse, small and distant in the badkground

After the painting by Castiglione, London, 1781 https://t.co/gREFGaiXPR

@larrymacdougall Beautiful!
They remind me of the ones we have in our collection:)

For your children's room(s) a special, exclusive wall decoration!
Children will love these. The wondrous, miraculous fairy tale world of humanized forest dwellers.
29.5 x 42 cm

Now look at this beauty. Very decorative map showing the northwest #Africa. Notice the #Canary Islands in the lower left and #Madeira to the north with an inset of Peñon de Velez. by J. Hondius, ca. 1610 https://t.co/1DjkkxOM2t

#Orchids of the day
Exquisite & extremely rare Orchids for #Orchidlovers in a brilliant & meticulous hand colouring. By Hartinger from his "Paradisus Vindobonensis"
1. Cypripedium Insigne & Cypripedium Purpuratum
2. Miltonia Spectabilis & Miltonia Bicolor
https://t.co/cE6WzbClps

#Frogs
"Histoire Naturelle, La #Grenouille Mugissante - Le Crapaud Pipa"

Hand-colored copper etching from "Encyclopedia" By Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
and Jean Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert
Quart edition. Paris, 1751-1772
https://t.co/pK0DdFx0b0

#Italy, #Sardegna and #Sicily.
Copper etching by Robert Vaugondy (son 1723-1886) after a map by Nicolas Sanson. Published in Paris, 1751 . Hand coloring somewhat later.
Map shows the ancient divisions of Italy with names of prehistoric peoples and places. https://t.co/4G23LjAbQH

@DiogenisSinopis Another famous #Dog!
"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. https://t.co/sY1nA4DZz0

The splendid map shows much of the southeast coast of England on the English Channel and #London. In the southwest is the Ise of Wight. By Matthaeus Seutter (1678-1756), ca 1720.
Original hand coloring.