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🔎 The Naturalist's Pocket Magazine or compleat cabinet of the curiosities and beauties of nature.
London.
https://t.co/gFKtlNe7n3

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2020-06-30

The Westwood Room was originally called ‘Mr Hope’s Museum’ after Frederick William Hope, a founding collector of this Museum in the 1840s. Hope’s museum within a museum became a favourite meeting place for naturalists: Charles Darwin called Hope ‘my father in entomology’

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2020-06-26

El Greco died in Toledo in 1614, aged 73. His work, in characterising dynamic & colour over naturalism, is considered the most mannered of his time & was to have great impact on later artists. Opening of the 5th Seal (1608-14), Fray Hortensio (1609) & Laocoön (1610)

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2020-06-25

In 1699, naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian sailed from Amsterdam to Suriname to study the life cycle of tropical insects: https://t.co/BFfM36jY9E. Here’s her watercolor of an Achilles morpho butterfly on a West Indian cherry via

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2020-06-25

🐼 The naturalist's library
Edinburgh, W. H. Lizars; [etc., etc.]1833-
https://t.co/6OlFxFOPQf

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2020-06-25

🐞 The naturalist's library
Edinburgh, W. H. Lizars; [etc., etc.]1833-
https://t.co/dN75OO75KP

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2020-06-24

An Alphabet full of Illustrators...T is For...Margaret W Tarrant an artist who illustrated a great many childrens books in Black White and colour. Her easy naturalistic illustrations were widely known and popular. You can see why!#ForgottenChildrensBooks

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2020-06-20

🔎 The Naturalist's Pocket Magazine or compleat cabinet of the curiosities and beauties of nature.
London.
https://t.co/l7oFhkAt60

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2020-06-20

Paul-Gustave Fischer (1860-1934),danski slikar jevrejskog porekla. Naturalista, poznat, pre svega, kao slikar Kopenhagena ali i drugih evropskih gradova. Čest motiv su mu bile i nage žene.
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Paul-Gustave Fischer, Žene na plaži

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2020-06-17

Edmund Dulac (born Edmond Dulac; 22 October 1882 – 25 May 1953) was a French British naturalised magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer.

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2020-06-18

For here is a collection of watercolours undertaken by James Stewart (1791-1863) for William Jardine's The Naturalist's Library https://t.co/Ibgeydg5Fc

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2020-06-17