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Cartoon portrait of artist and writer William Morris, who left this "earthly paradise" 125 years ago #onthisday. More caricatures of leading (male) 19th-century figures featured in Cartoon Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Men of the Day (1873): https://t.co/5h182DQ5td

The Temptation of St Anthony, by Martin Schongauer, 1470 – https://t.co/U2o6ebwE6i

The engraving inspired many artists after Schongauer including Michelangelo who copied it in his earliest known painting, completed when he was just 12 or 13 years old. https://t.co/iSdxqlATwX

Adolf Schmidt’s Atlas der Diatomaceenkunde is a 19th-century catalogue dedicated to showcasing diatoms (a type of unicellular microalgae) in all their intricate glory. We feature images from an 1890 edition printed in a striking blue: https://t.co/lueKahJ6GO

In Japanese the circular guard above the handle of a sword is known as a "tsuba", and they became important symbols for samurai in medieval and early modern Japan. Browse images of a wonderful collection from 1916 here: https://t.co/JEkSWkriCB

Beautiful series of images by Eduard Pechuël-Loesche from an 1888 book on the strange skies produced the world-over after the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa.⠀⠀

More here: https://t.co/UTAX8292fM

Engraving by François-Nicolas Martinet from an anonymous Chinese drawing, featured in Edme Billardon-Sauvigny's Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780).

Available as a print in our online shop: https://t.co/gVhFoTMRGP

On the 700th anniversary of Dante's death, we explore the art that has illustrated his Divine Comedy over the centuries — from Botticelli to Blake to Doré... https://t.co/Avg6JnC1lV #onthisday #otd #Dante700

Frederic Edwin Church, Aurora Borealis, 1865.

One of the many images of Aurora Borealis collected in our post “Firelight Flickering on the Ceiling of the World”, looking at how this otherworldly phenomenon has been depicted over the centuries: https://t.co/TtTzdW6LZj

Cotton-top tamarin, as depicted by Jacques de Sève for Comte de Buffon's Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière (1754).

Lots more of the wonderful illustrations from the book here: https://t.co/4fYhZiDdWd

Waterfall and Northern Lights, Carl Svante Hallbeck, 1856. ⁠
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Chromolithograph depicting Harsprånget waterfall, now the site of the largest hydroelectric power station in Sweden.⁠
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One of several aurora borealis prints available in our online shop: https://t.co/GXjL9aYwz7