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In the pandemic, Christie's auctioning Swiss/Austrian/N Am mountain vacation posters with the fancy LUGGAGE, and the preview is almost too much to handle. This summer poster from 1947, however, is within our current possibilities. https://t.co/73pKySeEji
It feels like something bad has happened today but I don’t know what yet because teaching Maria Sibylla Merian with these sources has been really good.
Gorgeous scans of mushroom chromolithographs in “Flora agaricina danica,” produced by Danish mycologist Jakob E. Lange, 1935-1940. https://t.co/Wg5w8QA84Q
So much mushroomy beauty, albeit rather haphazardly arranged. James Sowerby, “Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms” (1809). https://t.co/2rhRtvltjv
Unbelievably beautiful mushroom prints by serious amateur mycologist Mary Banning, from The Fungi of Maryland” (1878), unpublished. https://t.co/FY7tLzfMBQ
All owl fans will love Hans Schleger‘s logo for the hippest Weimar-era publisher Ullstein, c. 1924. So gorgeous.