The Public Domain Reviewさんのイラストまとめ

Your #FridayFish, courtesy of Louis Renard and his Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, originally published in 1719 and considered the earliest known publication in colour on fish.

Many more of its delights here: https://t.co/G7vcDxn0Jf https://t.co/gM1Su8E2vU

"So, this is death. Well!" — final words of the Scottish philosopher + historian Thomas Carlyle who died #onthisday in 1881. He's pictured here in a 19th-century print produced by the Japanese Department of Education, of which you can see more here https://t.co/RQyEQJDCqP #otd

Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds, 1871.⠀
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One of several hummingbird / orchid paintings by Martin Johnson Heade. This and a couple of other Heade works available as prints in our online shop here: https://t.co/VHH9GF9U3j

Highlights from John Gould's groundbreaking Mammals of Australia (1845–63) — https://t.co/cWyu1mYB4Q

Born #onthisday in 1785, Jacob Grimm, the elder of the famous folklorist brothers. Read Jack Zipes' essay exploring the importance of the neglected first edition of their Kinder-und Hausmärchen and what it tells us about their motives and passions: https://t.co/QjrQr9PkZ3 #otd

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: https://t.co/0Kvjk5Tbjm

Margaret Cavendish, one of the first women writers to publish under her own name, died #onthisday in 1673. Read about her proto-sci-fi fantasy The Blazing World, and what it can teach us about empire, gender and imagination in the 17th century: https://t.co/s1Zj5ATcz9 #OTD

One of a set of 32 astronomical star-chart cards known as Urania’s Mirror or a View of the Heavens published in around 1825. Each card is pierced with holes corresponding in size to the magnitudes of the brightest stars. More here: https://t.co/pkZcUloRA4

“The Sound and the Story: Exploring the World of Paradise Lost”, @PhilipPullman on the sonic beauty and expert storytelling of Milton's masterpiece, and the influence it has had on his own work: https://t.co/dtj75CvD2a