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Today for #FashionFriday we continue our fashion tour of history with a look around the Elizabethan period, roughly 1550-1620. We present a number of hand-painted fashion plates from 'Costumes of the World.' See more fancy fashions here: https://t.co/ZDyZRBC8JH
Last night we shared some late #Feathursday birbs from Gromme's Birds of Wisconsin. We see these little chaps in our neighborhood all the time!
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The color illustrations are by Walter Hood Fitch, a prolific botanical illustrator who also produced chromolithographs for 'Curtis’s Botanical Magazine.' #WednesdayBouquet Learn more here: https://t.co/8H4U6PBEXN
These illustrations are from Volume One of the revised edition of 'Paxton’s Flower Garden' by John Lindley and Sir Joseph Paxton, revised by Thomas Baines and published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. in London in 1882.
For this week's #MondayMotivation we present the Great Horned Owl Mr. Ocax, the villainous character from Avi’s children’s novel 'Poppy.' SPOILER ALERT: Although a villain, Mr. Ocax is highly motivated to terrorize the little field mouse Poppy. Learn more: https://t.co/FiWsj5CLYu
It's #FinePressFriday! This is 'Vowels' by Arthur Rimbaud with watercolor woodblock prints by artist Henri Cartier-Bresson and translation by Wallace Fowlie. It was printed in 1996 for the Limited Editions Club in in an edition of 300. Learn more here: https://t.co/cTnmKas95c
For the month of June, we present wood engravings, photogravures, and chromolithographs from the June 1905 issue of the early 20th-century periodical 'Flora and Sylva, A Monthly Review for Lovers of Gardens, Woodland, Tree or Flower.' Learn more here: https://t.co/JRILIQUv0I
Here by the beautiful shores of Lake Michigan, members of family Icteridae are in full form. Redwings are o-gurgling to each other, Grackles are dominating suburban lawns, Orioles are hogging the orange slices at feeders, and Cowbirds are parasitizing the nests of other birds.
This week's #WednesdayBouquet features floral illustrations by painter Fleur Cowles from children's book 'Tiger Flower.' Cowles created these paintings and Robert Vavra then wrote the story to accompany them. Learn more here: https://t.co/rlQ1ln1lsS
Today we present theater sets and costume designs from 'The Living Arts,' Number 5, published in 1922 by Condé Nast. It was edited and arranged by Lucien Vogel and Michel Dufet, and was printed in Paris at the press of George Lang. More here: https://t.co/kh5kFwkwg0