🎨 Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, "Saint Francis at the Foot of the Cross", 1669

This painting is in Charles Boyd Curtis's "Velazquez and Murillo: A Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of Works". It was painted for the Capuchin Church in Cadiz.

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The Fuchsia Grevillea (also known as "Jingle Bells") must be Australia's most Christmassy plant! Image: Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 1913. https://t.co/fD5CpCoEmm via

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Wishing all biodiversity, heritage & literature lovers a very Merry Christmas!

Illustrations from Curtis's Botanical Magazine via & https://t.co/QCW67KAZCp

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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

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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.

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Today is the first day of Advent, which means we are now well on our way to Christmas! Hoping these cheerful Poinsettias brighten your
[Curtis's botanical magazine vol. 63: https://t.co/Gj6V3tkmye.]

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(Epipogium aphyllum) lack chlorophyll, grow in dimly lit areas, and rarely appear. by Walter Hood Fitch for Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 80 (1854), digitized by for : https://t.co/QfgWjvl1uO (5/5)

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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)

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(Cirrhopetalum fletcheranum). by Matilda Smith for Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 141 (1915). View more in with thanks to the Raven Library of the for digitizing: https://t.co/3lfJE84veC --

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Lily of the Palace (Hippeastrum aulicum). by William Jackson Hooker for Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 61 (1834). View more in with thanks to Raven Library of the for digitizing: https://t.co/tMx4lAIx7S

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We're enamored of the orange of this nasturtium from William Curtis' Botanical magazine (vol. 1, 1793)

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"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 / https://t.co/OtOxnKdn01

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Pride of Burma (Amherstia nobilis). by Walter Hood Fitch for Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 75 (1849). View more in : https://t.co/V81fkjto5A and on my blog for the https://t.co/xi9a9ToKz4

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'DEAR NATURE'S CHILD': , 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

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My opening shot for Curtis and Shurk mainly features Curtis's dad XD

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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

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Lovely illustration of a Hoya, from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, v.74 [ser.3:v.4] - 1848 🌱#art https://t.co/tzduzZ6UoD

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Some power! No bouquet is complete without iris, hydrangeas and blue water lilies. Blooms courtesy Curtis' Botanical Magazine, issues 1794-1802.

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Sydenham Teast Edwards(1768-1819) born in 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. has many of his original watercolours for mag

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Beautiful portrait of the Kentish Glory moth - male, female, and larva - from Curtis's British Entomology 1833

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