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Illustration from a Book of Hours attributed to an artist of the Ghent-Bruges school and dating from the late 15th century. More rainbow-coloured "grotesques" here: https://t.co/Hpvm20Azgh @BeineckeLibrary

Alfred Tennyson — born #onthisday in 1809 — enjoying a swing while his "poetic fancy" sparkles in the night sky. From a 19th-century book of celebrity cartoons: https://t.co/5h182DQ5td

From "Shtetl, My Destroyed Home: A Remembrance" (1922), a set of 30 lithographs by the Jewish artist Issachar Ber Ryback. In the series Ryback depicts scenes from his home village in Ukraine before it was destroyed in the pogroms following WW1. More here: https://t.co/qJkYdfBj27

Martin Gerlach's Festoons and Decorative Groups of Plants and Animals (1893), was meant as a reference manual meant for inspiring artists and artisans, but is a work of art in its own right: https://t.co/crrC3TLRDd

Stunning set of maps depicting the changing course of the Mississippi River over millennia, created by US Army engineer Harold Fisk in 1944: https://t.co/t1jIwrdaLN

Prints also available here: https://t.co/3pwyqKYSZO

"Caterpillar, Pear, Tulip, and Purple Snail " (1561–96) — from the remarkable Model Book of Calligraphy, the result of a collaboration across many decades between a master scribe Georg Bocskay and artist Joris Hoefnagel, who died #onthisday in 1601: https://t.co/mHEGK9rp4X #OTD

Carl Svante Hallbeck, Waterfall and Northern Lights, 1856.

Chromolithograph of the waterfall Harsprånget in the polar night with the aurora borealis.

Print available in our shop here: https://t.co/2MXoIceaTS

Visualising bubbles in the history of art (1500–1906) — from innocence to vanitas, physics to politics. See our latest images post: https://t.co/TR86asNYkL

“Leaving the Opera in the Year 2000”, a circa 1902 illustration by French illustrator, etcher, lithographer, caricaturist, novelist, and all around futurologist, Albert Robida.

More on the print here: https://t.co/WDuZNUghPb
Print from our shop here: https://t.co/pZmamBpIDh

Roald Amundsen — the Norwegian explorer who, with his team, became the first to reach the South Pole — was born #onthisday in 1872. See our highlights of the wonderful set of photos from the 1910–12 expedition: https://t.co/NeIvHPOlvz #OTD