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I found a really cool painted bone sword made from a swordfish on the new smithsonian open archive and I hope your sword is also as cool

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2020-02-27

🦋 Maria Sibylla Merian’s “Metamorphosis insectorum surinamensium” (1705). Both gorgeous and groundbreaking, Merian’s volume was the first to document insect lifecycles: https://t.co/IJCNaJq9oq

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2020-02-27

Smithsonian Releases 2.8 Million Images Into Public Domain https://t.co/PdsOq2uuvY

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2020-02-25

I genuinely thought this was a painting when I first saw it but no it is a botany specimen!
Image via CC0 copyright license https://t.co/ocQjb4q6cx

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2020-02-25

Especially for I want to bring to your attention american painter
Clementine 1886-1988
What a life!
And interesting self-taught painter who lived and worked on a Louisiana plantation and has paintings in the Smithsonian

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2020-02-20

Everett Shinn - Matinée, Outdoor Stage, Paris, 1902. Pastel on paper, 18 x 26 in. (45.7 x 66.0 cm.). Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA

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2020-02-18

Zoologie, Voyage autour du monde exécuté pendant les années 1836 et 1837 sur la corvette la Bonite, commandée par M. Vaillant, by F Eydoux et al, 1841-52, from BHL/ Smithsonian.......https://t.co/YQLZd7YY8c

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2020-02-17

Birds of the park, and elsewhere: Parrots in captivity, by WT Greene et al, 1883-1888, from BHL/Smithsonian.......https://t.co/2o4rPFxffQ

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2020-02-04

Insects of the park: Musée entomologique illustré : histoire naturelle iconographique des insectes : publiée par une réunion d'entomologistes français et étrangers, by A Depusiet et al.......1876-78, 3 vols, from BHL/Smithsonian Libraries........https://t.co/D40bOrPWda

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2020-01-24

TMW Smithsonian has commissioned artwork of the mosasaur that looks like an orca...

Like the one I drew awhile ago.

IT'S AWESOME

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2020-01-23

What a nice surprise to listen to the most recent episode featuring Lonnie G. Bunch III and hear about Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Annie Jump Cannon, & the women who worked with the Harvard-Smithsonian Glass Plates ✨ https://t.co/LmsbdgD79u

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2020-01-23

Botanical illustration and the park: La plante et ses applications ornementales, by E Grasset and MP Verneuil, 1896, from BHL/Smithsonian............https://t.co/4FbEHYsGLU

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2020-01-20

Natural history in the park, and elsewhere: Nouvelles illustrations de zoologie : contenant cinquante planches enlumineés d'oiseaux curieux, et qui non etés jamais descrits. by Peter Brown, 1776, BHL/Smithsonian.......https://t.co/UhsStBYAg9

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2020-01-19

Birds of the park, and elsewhere: A general synopsis of birds, by John Latham.......6 vols, 1781-85, from BHL/Smithsonian Libraries.........https://t.co/CI4VQxQZzY

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2020-01-16

Birds of the park, and elsewhere: Monograph of the Pittidae Part I [-II], by John Gould et al............1880-1881, from BHL courtesy of Smithsonian Libraries........https://t.co/Mscg0bawMR

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2020-01-13

SURPRISE ! We're your buddy 🎁!

We know you love peacocks & Asian art, so we're gifting you John Gould's "Birds of Asia", 7 big volumes of beautiful birds! https://t.co/f9Dyr6rJaI

Hope you like it! ❤️❤️

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2019-12-14

Music to our ears! This year we’re celebrating This deconstructed accordion from artist has 1,465 component parts and is featured in our exhibition on view now !

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2019-12-14

Some fabulous images of the aurora borealis from !

Two favorites are Frederic Edwin Church’s painting from 1865 (Smithsonian) and a photo of the aurora above Roald Amundsun’s ship Maud from 1918-1925 (National Library of Norway), but lots more worth seeing https://t.co/Dh2DYsxxzw

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2019-12-07

HEADED TO DC! Road trip to the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian: Native Art Market this weekend to show our photography. We hope to see you in DC., Dec. 7-8, 10 am to 5:30 pm. Living the dream!

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2019-12-05