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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/PuLxqWz9oH #FishFriday

From James Sowerby's British Mineralogy (1802–1817).

Despite his scientific leanings, Sowerby was first and foremost an artist, adept in describing and demonstrating how complex questions of perspective, scale, and color functioned in individual objects: https://t.co/XkaM3kcLQJ

Designs by Carlotta Bonnecaze for the Krewe of Proteus' parades in the #NewOrleans #MardiGras parade, 1880s and 90s. See more wonderful designs from the "golden age" of Mardi Gras here: https://t.co/hc9SEnd9Zj

Happy #FatTuesday! Here's a few costume designs by artist Charles Briton for the 1873 New Orleans Mardi Gras. See more great carnival designs, and learn about their creators, in our essay by @AllisonCMeier: https://t.co/7YPSQ68Mea #MardiGras

Model in the studio for Hugo Simberg's The Wounded Angel (1903). From a huge collection of the Finnish painter's photos digitised by the @AteneumMuseum. See our highlights here: https://t.co/2BiIlaQ92c

Popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, the “Steps of Life” genre was based on the idea that one's life can be thought of as divisible into distinct stages, depicted on a set of ascending then descending steps. More examples here: https://t.co/9j1ItWxMMh

Fancy pigeons from Emil Schachtzabel's Illustriertes Prachtwerk sämtlicher Taubenrassen (1904). More here: https://t.co/xI5yKgbjxR

After a dramatic decline in numbers, this week Australia declared the #koala an endangered species.

Pictured here: the marsupial as featured in John Gould's Mammals of Australia (1845–63). More of the stunning lithographs from the work here: https://t.co/cWyu1mYB4Q

At the end of the 17th century a mysterious kayak-paddling “Finnman” was first seen in Orkney waters. Jonathan Westaway explores what the subsequent explanations tell us about early modern science's fascination with the "out of place": https://t.co/Cjzx1csrfv

“The Peak in Darien: The Riddle of Death” (1882) — An essay by Frances Power Cobbe, an advocate for women’s suffrage, about the consolation and possible significance of deathbed visions: https://t.co/ubJYeqQWim