The Dickcissel (Spiza americana) is mainly a bird of the American Midwest. Max has seen and heard them in his rambles around the Midwest, but never seen them here in Wisconsin. This chromolithographic plate is from a painting by the noted American ornithologist Robert Ridgway.

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Waterfall and Northern Lights, Carl Svante Hallbeck, 1856. ⁠

Chromolithograph depicting Harsprånget waterfall, now the site of the largest hydroelectric power station in Sweden.⁠

One of several aurora borealis prints available in our online shop: https://t.co/GXjL9aYwz7

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The Parting - "Buy us too"
Henry Louis Stephens
Prints, Chromolithograph
American, 1863

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This chromolithograph is from our 2-volume set of 'Our Native Birds of Song and Beauty,' by Henry Nehrling (1853-1929), and published in MKE by George Brumder from 1893-1896. It features birds like the Ruby-throated Hummingbird & the Northern Cardinal! https://t.co/W5tlnO83oA

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Carl Svante Hallbeck, Waterfall and Northern Lights, 1856.

Chromolithograph of the waterfall Harsprånget in the polar night with the aurora borealis.

Print available in our shop here: https://t.co/2MXoIceaTS

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Wonderful blossom. Spectacular chromolithographs of assorted flowers in extraordinarily splendid & stunning hand-color-finishing, touching by the sheer beauty of these original and extremely rare prints of unique brilliancy, vividness & radiance
https://t.co/bBaUpjyA2a

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💐A bouquet from "Les roses : histoire, culture, description" (1873), in honor of

Written by Hippolyte Jamain and Eugène Forney, it was illustrated with 60 gorgeous chromolithographs. Find it in : https://t.co/jVkUioWS0i

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(1806 - 1890), was a Viennese artist specialized in flower painting. He was a member of the Viennese Academy of Arts from 1843 to 1851 in the Flower and Fruit School and a pioneer in the field of chromolithography. https://t.co/piPCUQwHzF

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Nephelium Lappaceum, by (née van Dolder; Dutch, 1817-1892), who died Hand-finished chromolithograph from Selected Flowers, Fruit & Foliage from the Island of Java; , https://t.co/szs26uOFL6

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Pears & Apples

Original antique print

Chromolithograph of various sorts of old apples with their German names. Published 1890. https://t.co/fSIHeqlSwi

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👀🥚Hunting for eggs this morning? Thomas G. Gentry has saved you some time!

His "Nests and eggs of birds of the United States" (1882) depicts dozens of birds, their eggs and dwellings in gorgeous chromolithographs. See more in : https://t.co/auwuqimThJ

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Stag beetles, mushrooms, oxalis, butterflies, swans, iris & lilies are all in this wonderful Maurice Verneuil's chromolithograph published in 1897 in 'L'animal dans la decoration'. More images to explore on at https://t.co/nJLWUiXDsj

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❤️❤️❤️ Happy Valentine’s Day! We imagine that Cupid is out playing in the snow.

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Gabriele Möschl, Cupid in Winter, 1911, chromolithograph. Wiener Werkstätte Postcard 547. Leonard A. Lauder Collection. Neue Galerie New York.



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Beatles all over the place. Chromolithograph published ca 1900 https://t.co/EZ1erH0UB4

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We missed yesterday, but we figure it's never too late to share some beautiful birds from the 1860 Bien edition of Audubon’s Birds of America! 🪶

(Take a look at the full digital version in the link!)

https://t.co/lGOGXluvle

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Gorgeous scans of mushroom chromolithographs in “Flora agaricina danica,” produced by Danish mycologist Jakob E. Lange, 1935-1940. https://t.co/Wg5w8QA84Q

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Another work depicting the Pheel Khana or the Elephants' quarters at the Holcar's Camp. The are caparisoned with rich hangings with decorative howdahs. Chromolithograph 1867 after William Simpson frm Christies https://t.co/JBXC5earNM

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We wish you a happy ❄️

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Gabriele Möschl, Cupid in Winter, 1911, chromolithograph. Wiener Werkstätte Postcard 547. Leonard A. Lauder Collection. Neue Galerie New York.


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4/5 more of these magnificent
...the Flower and Fruit School and a pioneer in the field of chromolithography. Lacking money to publish his extraordinary book on flowers he sought investors. And he found them... https://t.co/TFU2cpQmEv

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No sign of in our collections but we've got prancing deer instead. This chromolithograph by Maurice Pillard Verneuil comes from L'animal dans la decoration (The animal in decoration), 1897 https://t.co/7ujWpODiL7

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