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The European roller (Coracias garrulus) for #Feathursday! #SciArt by Archibald Thorburn for Lilford's "Coloured figures of the birds of the British Islands" v. 2 (1885-1897). In #BHLib via @AMNH: https://t.co/GZymSNrxTn #bird
#DYK it's not too late to get involved in @zsllondonzoo's project to transform the iconic Snowdon Aviary into the perfect new home for our colobus monkeys? https://t.co/E5OPgyjEUw This incredible image is from ZSL's 1885 Proceedings, and is by J. Smit.
#dessindujour de #sculpture au #muséedorsay "La Jeune Tarentine", est une #statue en #marbre de #1871 du #sculpteur #français Alexandre #Schoenewerk (1820-1885) d'après un #poème d'André #Chénier, exposée au #Musée d' #Orsay de #Paris , pierre noire crayon blanc , #atelierboubok
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (1817-1900) - A Moonlit Night at Sea 1885 oil on canvas (Sotheby's)
Despite its common name, the horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) is more closely related to arachnids than crustaceans. Explore their anatomy in "Descriptions of the Muscular and Endoskeletal Systems of Limulus" (1885), in #BHLib via @Cornell_Library: https://t.co/dTDTP9mtME
Nadezhda #Lermontova ( 1885-1921 ), On the divan, self portrait, 1910-20.
Today in 1885, #MarkTwain published the #AdventuresofHuckleberryFinn. Would you watch this #Hollywood adaptation? https://t.co/7QIkDoRm1s
Gli appassionati di cucina apprezzeranno questo panetto di burro dipinto da Antoine Vollon tra il 1875 e il 1885.
Avviciniamoci all'opera e osserviamo attentamente la materia pittorica. L'artista sembra aver spalmato l'alimento direttamente sulla tela.
Histoire physique, naturelle, et politique de Madagascar. By Grandidier, Alfred., Mabille, P., Saussure, Henri de., Zehntner, Leo. Paris: Impr. nationale,1885 @BioDivLibrary https://t.co/64HnFoiHbP (V.9 t.4 1875 Mammiferes atlas)
Histoire physique, naturelle, et politique de Madagascar. By Grandidier, Alfred., Mabille, P., Saussure, Henri de., Zehntner, Leo. Paris: Impr. nationale,1885 @BioDivLibrary https://t.co/64HnFoiHbP Mollusques v.25 (1889)
It's Rupen Sevag's (#ՌուբէնՍեւակ) birthday today - a wonderful poet and a beautiful soul, arrested and killed with #Varoujan. He was born in 1885, and after studying medicine in Switzerland, he returned to Constantinople in 1914 with his German wife. #rubensevak #rupensevag
Love's Messenger (1885) by Marie Spartali Stillman (UK, 1844-1927). A dove carries a love letter to a woman standing in front of an open window. She wears a red rose & has just put down her embroidery of a blind-folded Cupid. #ValentinesDay2018 #Valentines #PreRaphaelite #Love
Happy #DarwinDay! Check out Darwin's children's #BioArt, drawn on an #OriginofSpecies manuscript draft ca. 1885. https://t.co/casFuQWaow
Born in Wimbledon, London ~ British artist and illustrator ~
Agnes Richardson ~ 1885~1951
Paul Manship’s "Diana" sold for $975,000 at @Sothebys In 1921, Manship (1885-1966) cast his first bronze edition of" Diana," of which this work is an example. The bronze with traces of gilt is 38" high on a 1" marble base https://t.co/sMSNJpgNqI #sculpture #art #artist #bronze
Isabella Sinclair's "Indigenous #Flowers of the Hawaiian Islands" (1885), featuring 44 chromolithographs, is an important record of Hawaiian flora in the 19th century. Contributed to #BHLib by @National_Ag_Lib @USDA_ARS: https://t.co/oQHI2o6GgC #WomeninScience