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🎨 Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, "Saint Francis at the Foot of the Cross", 1669
This painting is #288 in Charles Boyd Curtis's "Velazquez and Murillo: A Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of Works". It was painted for the Capuchin Church in Cadiz. #Art #Painting #ArtistsOfBeauty
The Fuchsia Grevillea (also known as "Jingle Bells") must be Australia's most Christmassy plant! #AussieXmasTree Image: Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 1913. https://t.co/fD5CpCoEmm via @BioDivLibrary @mobotgarden @kewgardens #BHLCurtis
Wishing all biodiversity, heritage & literature lovers a very Merry Christmas!
Illustrations from Curtis's Botanical Magazine via @kewgardens @BioDivLibrary & @mobotgarden https://t.co/QCW67KAZCp #AussieXmasTree
In this Christmas Card, here is Maylyn of the Powerpuff Girls' Derbytantes, about to share a "you-know-what" with her Boyfriend under a Mistletoe, while her Companions (based on Ms. Cheyenne Curtis' original designs) watches over from behind a wall. Shout out to @Cheyenne_Curtis
The Poinsettia is one of the most familiar Christmas plants.
This close up comes from an illustration of 'Poinsettia pulcherrima, Showy Poinsettia' was engraved by J. Swan, published in Curtis's Botanical Magazine in 1836.
Today is the first day of Advent, which means we are now well on our way to Christmas! Hoping these cheerful Poinsettias brighten your #December1st!
[Curtis's botanical magazine vol. 63: @BioDivLibrary @mobotgarden https://t.co/Gj6V3tkmye.] #winter #winterflowers #SciArtSunday
@BioDivLibrary @NHM_Library @austmus @mobotgarden #Ghost #orchids (Epipogium aphyllum) lack chlorophyll, grow in dimly lit areas, and rarely appear. #SciArt by Walter Hood Fitch for Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 80 (1854), digitized by @mobotgarden for @BioDivLibrary: https://t.co/QfgWjvl1uO (5/5) #HappyHalloween!
Now that it's fall, we're looking towards warmer colors like the lovely orange found in this nasturtium image from William Curtis's Botanical magazine (vol. 1, 1793) #medicalbotany
#Orchids (Cirrhopetalum fletcheranum). #SciArt by Matilda Smith for Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 141 (1915). View more in @BioDivLibrary with thanks to the Raven Library of the @mobotgarden for digitizing: https://t.co/3lfJE84veC -- #WomeninHistSciArt #HerNaturalHistory
#FloraFriday: Lily of the Palace (Hippeastrum aulicum). #SciArt by William Jackson Hooker for Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 61 (1834). View more in @BioDivLibrary with thanks to Raven Library of the @mobotgarden for digitizing: https://t.co/tMx4lAIx7S
We're enamored of the orange of this nasturtium from William Curtis' Botanical magazine (vol. 1, 1793) #medicalbotany #naturalhistory #botanical
"If you were really Cuban, you would have learned sooner to carry plastic bags, tucked in your purse, in pockets, down the front of your shirt": from "Jabas," Patricia Curtis' flash memoir / new @On_The_Seawall / https://t.co/OtOxnKdn01
Pride of Burma (Amherstia nobilis). #SciArt by Walter Hood Fitch for Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 75 (1849). View more in @BioDivLibrary: https://t.co/V81fkjto5A and on my blog for the #HSASundayGarden: https://t.co/xi9a9ToKz4
'DEAR NATURE'S CHILD': @AltonMuseums, 1 June - 20 July. An exhibition that looks at William Curtis' life and legacy and highlights work done in the Gallery Garden to incorporate some of the plants illustrated in the early editions of the Botanical Magazine.https://t.co/bl8t4clhUB
My opening shot for Curtis and Shurk mainly features Curtis's dad XD
Scott Curtis' distinctive portrait and landscape style incorporates exciting and inventive visual effects where figures and buildings are softly fragmented and mirrored, swirling and merging with their surroundings as if dissolving. https://t.co/KXOa74urVT
Lovely #botanical illustration of a Hoya, from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, v.74 [ser.3:v.4] - 1848 🌱#art #flowers @internetarchive https://t.co/tzduzZ6UoD
Sydenham Teast Edwards(1768-1819) born in #Usk #Wales.#botanical illustrator,trained by William Curtis and made most of the illustrations for 'Curtis's Botanical Magazine' (world's longest-running bot mag) from 1787-1815.@rhslibraries has many of his original watercolours for mag
Beautiful portrait of the Kentish Glory moth - male, female, and larva - from Curtis's British Entomology 1833