Gulls mugging tufted ducks for freshwater mussels and, on a more tranquil note, autumn colours by the canal this morning reminded me of my grandma's Victorian chromolithographs of leafy backwaters.

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Many of Ravi Varma's paintings were printed as chromolithographs. They would have a tremendous impact on religion, society and aesthetics.
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These chromolithographs come from our 1907 edition 'Bird-Life, A Guide to the Study of our Common Birds,' by Frank M. Chapman. Published in New York by D. Appleton & Company, it includes 75 full-page colored plates after drawings by Ernest Thompson Seton. https://t.co/hY0oelUg7e

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Anton Hartinger
"Paradisus Vindobonensis" (Viennese Paradise)
Important Filiacae, Amaryllidae and other flowers
We are certain that anyone seeing the following spectacular chromolithographs of assorted flowers in extraordinarily splendid and stunning…#amaryllis

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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
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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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👀🥚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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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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A treasure of the Lindley Library is the Album Benary, one of few early printed books offering fine-quality portraits of vegetable cultivars. Issued from 1876-1882 the work consists of four groups of seven chromolithographs, drawn by Ernst Benary.

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Today we present Chipping Sparrows, a Catbird, & their nests from 'Nests & Eggs of Birds of the United States' by Thomas G. Gentry, published in 1882. This tome includes chromolithographs of around 50 paintings of birds, eggs, and nests by Edwin Sheppard. https://t.co/c2Py0PLwhl

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is illustrating the legacy of J.Leydi and L. Blaschka with Diffuglia pyriformis [632, pear shaped protozoan] notice the broken glass pieces glued to the body. Model from , chromolithographs and drawing from . Enjoy!

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Botanist Anne Pratt concludes our feature for Pratt, one of the most prominent botanical and ornithological illustrators and authors of her time, composed more than 20 books illustrated with her own chromolithographs: https://t.co/Stvl8sK5rx

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For the month of November, we present wood engravings, photogravures, and chromolithographs from the November 1905 issue of the early 20th-century periodical 'Flora and Sylva, A Monthly Review.' Learn more abt the publication & see more illustrations here: https://t.co/ZdgKFy4lVu

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The color illustrations we are featuring today are by Walter Hood Fitch, a prolific botanical illustrator who also produced chromolithographs for Curtis’s Botanical Magazine. Learn more here: https://t.co/GMfmdZO65c

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For the month of October, we present wood engravings, photogravures, and chromolithographs from the October 1905 issue of the early 20th-century periodical 'Flora and Sylva, A Monthly Review for Lovers of Gardens, Woodland, Tree or Flower.' View more here: https://t.co/zJxlusRoro

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Today is a day to celebrate this enormous group of squamate reptiles that includes over 6,000 species. Today we bring you chromolithographs of just a few of them from volume one, part 3 of the 1882-84 edition of 'Brehms Thierleben.' More: https://t.co/07TjwNzE0o

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Today is the day we celebrate the Serpentes, those long, scaly, cold-blooded, legless squamates. In celebration, we present a few chromolithographs and wood engravings of snakes doing what snakes do: threatening, crushing, swallowing things, and just hanging out, looking cool.

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