# foodanddrink animals drawing illustration piranesi rome preraphaelite illustrations drawingsandillustrations

For on Trees, Plants and Environment -- let's go with none other than Emily Carr and her iconic paintings of Canada's western forests. Here, Metchosin, 1935 (Winnipeg Art Gallery). 🌳

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2020-07-01

Wind in the Tree Tops by Christopher R. W. Nevinson seems the perfect art work for today, and for the windy weather we've been having!

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2020-06-30

Preparations for a Feast, Netherlandish (Delft) School, 1575-1625 seems the perfect share for today's Food & Drink theme today!

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2020-06-29

Henri Rousseau in collections across the world - these in Cleveland, Washington & St Petersburg

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2020-06-27

12th century camel from the Hermitage of San Baudelio de Berlanga, near Soria in north central Spain. Part of the collections at the Cloisters Museum (the Met).

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2020-06-27

means reflection. Drawing means concentration and emphasis. It literally enables us to draw connections and contexts.

That makes such an interesting and, imho, useful documentation tool.

From the archaeologist‘s sketchbook for today‘s

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2020-06-25

Giovanni Battista (or Giambattista)  also known as simply Piranesi; 4 October 1720 – 9 November 1778) was an Italian artist famous for his etchings of 

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2020-06-25

Dante Gabriel Rossetti is next out of the online image resource for dive in yourself and look for Drawings & Illustrations!
https://t.co/RDbJ1PgQ0G
Woman combing her hair, Fanny Cornforth
The Raven - Angel Footfalls
Portrait of a Young Man

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2020-06-26

Today's theme is drawings and illustration, so who better to highlight than the master, Michelangelo? Michelangelo is widely recognised as one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance period. Here are a few of his drawings from our collection

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2020-06-26

‘Sitting among the daisies was a plump, elderly gentleman’ For an original drawing by Keith Vaughan for illus. on p.12 of P. H. Newby's The Spirit of Jem, a children's adventure story, published by John Lehmann in 1947. Purchase c/o grant

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2020-06-25

For watercolour possibly by Jacques Hippolyte van der Burch (1786-1856) for chromolithographic plates in 'Traité des exhumations juridiques' 1831, a treatise by Mathieu Orfila (1787-1853) and Octave Lesueur (1802-1860). Gift: George Powell 1882

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2020-06-25

botanical drawings by Augustus Withers (1793-1871)Popular in 1830s & 40s, she worked for & was patronised by Queens Adelaide & Victoria.Sadly she ended her life in St Luke’s Hospital for Lunatics where she died of ‘pneumonia & senile decay’

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2020-06-25

Thinking about the wonderful botanical art collection . Not just artistic gems, but botanically accurate too!

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2020-06-25

In 1699, naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian sailed from Amsterdam to Suriname to study the life cycle of tropical insects: https://t.co/BFfM36jY9E. Here’s her watercolor of an Achilles morpho butterfly on a West Indian cherry via

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2020-06-25

In 1699, Maria Sibylla Merion sailed from Amsterdam to Suriname to study the life cycle of tropical insects. Here’s her watercolor of an Achilles morpho butterfly on a West Indian cherry from an exhibition at . theme today:

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2020-06-25

Two decidedly cheeky looking Mammoths. "The name derives from the Russian 'mammot', probably from Ostyak, a Finno-Ugric lang. of n. Russia (comp. Finnish maa "earth"). Because the remains were dug from the earth, the animal was believed to root like a mole."
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2020-06-25

Our William Hartley courtroom sketches cover a wide range of lawyers, judges, criminals and police officers, from Crippen and Le Neve to Superintendent John Michael Mulvaney (below), head of H () Division at the Sidney Street Siege.

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2020-06-25

Wash drawing of St Asaph Cathedral from the Flintshire Inventory of 1912. An evocative rendering by architect Mervyn Pritchard, one of the first surveyors at the Royal Commission.

https://t.co/y5hGbbrmjI

https://t.co/OJdDZJSzTL

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2020-06-25