സുധിർ/सुधीर/Sudhirさんのイラストまとめ

Mrs. Hussey collected mushroom specimens and made beautiful illustrations like this one of a poisonous, carrion-scented mushroom. She published 163 such plates in "Illustrations of British Mycology".

"Devil's Mushroom/Boletus satanas"
Anna Maria Hussey
1847
Watercolor on Paper

The blank background is very Japanese, while the stark realism is very Western.

"Still Life - Salmon Slices and Sardines"
Tsuchida Bakusen
1924
Adachi Museum of Art

Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin, famous for his heart rending sketches of Bengal famine, grew up along the Brahmaputra river and he was in love with nature - this beautiful Gray Langur is a testimony of that.

"Rangamoti"
1955
watercolor on paper
Christie's [sold for a pittance]

This has Paul Gauguin written all over it..

"Woman on Charpai"
Amrita Sher-Gil
1940
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi

Genevieve Jones,an amateur naturalist, was a pioneering woman who set out to illustrate bird nests. In the midst of the project, she died of typhoid.

Her awesome story👇🏽

https://t.co/rgJqNEJXqB

"Plate 2/Turdus mustelinus"
Illustrations of the nests & eggs of birds of Ohio
1879

Prof. Hooker was the visionary 1st Director of Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew who took it from decline to the world famous institution that it is now. He also was an excellent artist👇🏽

"Arum campanulatum"
(Old name of ചേന/सूरन/ Elephant Foot Yam)
Sir William Jackson Hooker
1828

Congo, a chimpanzee (1954–64), took to art when he was 2 & created an impressive oeuvre of controlled abstract works drawing illustrious collectors like Picasso & Miro.

Beautiful!

Congo, 30th Painting Session
11th December (1957)
Mayor Gallery
https://t.co/NURXjDz4a7

♂ & ♀ C-S Warbler, JJ Audubon

One wintry morning in 1903, President Teddy Roosevelt arrived at a White House cabinet meeting w/ a question:

"Gentlemen, do you know what has happened this morning?"
Room agog.
"Just now I saw a chestnut-sided warbler—and this is only February"

A beautifully captured "masth" elephant, at its peak energy. The details in this painting are amazing, down to spots on its skin and hair.

"A Large Caparisoned Elephant"
20th century
North India, Rajasthan, Kota
opaque pigments w/ gold on paper
Sotheby's
@KS1729 @dpanikkar

This beautiful work was done by either Gorachaud or Vishnu Persaud- both among the best!
Bombax insigne/Showy Cotton Silk Tree
"Plantae Asiaticae rariores/Descriptions & figures of a select number of unpublished East Indian plants"
By Wallich, N. 1786-1854
@ks1729 @dpanikkar