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#Orchids of the day:
Exquisite and extremely rare Orchids for #Orchid lovers in a most brilliant and meticulous hand colouring. By Hartinger from his "Paradisus Vindobonensis"
1. Epidentrum Cinnabarinum
2. Cipura Northiana
Unique and powerful beauties.
https://t.co/pM64Bgaczm
The talking parrot and the daintily singing canary.
Copper etching by Martin Engelbrecht. With a rhyming poem about the subject matter. Original hand coloring. Augsburg, ca. 1730. https://t.co/DhtOxFqH4b
Fine, toned steel engravings, published 1861.
1. Jaffa
2. Mount Sinai
3. Jerusalem, Temple mount
https://t.co/ZVEaw7RpsB
@NuclearTeeth "Vestal Romana Cuidando Del Fuego Sacro" (Roman vestal tending a sacred fire).Wood engraving after Peña Muñoz. Published 1884.
"A Roman Lady at her Toilette. Fourth Century" after Amos Cassioli (1832-1891) Published in London, ca. 1890
@makinggardens Here our 19th century antique print of an #Amaryllis Hybrida, Miniata
Exquisite & extremely rare botanicals in a most brilliant & meticulous hand colouring. By Hartinger from his "Paradisus Vindobonensis"
Unique beauty tender and powerful at the same time https://t.co/colH6P7JHb
Exquisite and extremely rare #Orchids for #Orchid lovers in a most brilliant and meticulous hand colouring. By Hartinger from his "Paradisus Vindobonensis"
1. Sobralia Macrantha
2. Dendrobium Nobile
Unique beauty tender and powerful at the same time!
https://t.co/pM64Bgaczm
@gunsnrosesgirl3 This is a 19th century Cactus beauty in extraordinarily splendid and stunning hand-color-finishing. Extremely rare antique print of unique brilliancy, vividness and radiance. https://t.co/3bwkdsbqCt
@autisticgardner This is a 19th century Cactus beauty in extraordinarily splendid and stunning hand-color-finishing. Extremely rare antique print of unique brilliancy, vividness and radiance. https://t.co/3bwkdsbqCt
#Africa. #Homann
The African continent was, in 1713, in wide parts still "terra incognita" to Europeans. The outside contures of this large continent were quite well documented, so that the shape was depicted correctly. But the interior was widely unknown. https://t.co/6bX6vrteaj