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histsciart · 5 months

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Happy Froggy Friday with Toadlets!

The European common toad (Bufo bufo) in two variations with bonus toadlets! SciArt from Getreue Abbildungen Naturhistorischer, Bd. 1 (1793), edited by Johann Matthäus Bechstein.

But it's a toad! How can it be part of Froggy Friday?! All toads are frogs, but not all frogs are toads. Learn more about the differences, or should I say similarities.

View more in Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to Smithsonian Libraries and Archives for digitizing.

#frogs #toads #toadlets #herpetology #amphibians #froggy friday #frog friday #HistSciArt #Biodiversity Heritage Library #smithsonian libraries

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arthistoryanimalia · 1 year

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2-8 April is both #BatAppreciationWeek🦇 AND #BeKindToSpidersWeek🕷️! As I love both bats & spiders expect lots of art featuring both all week long 😎

Ernst Haeckel, Kunstformen der Natur (1904), Plate 66 Arachnida & Plate 67 Chiroptera, BHL.

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gessner-aldrovandi-et-amici · 1 year

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Queen triggerfish (old wife) from Marcus Elesier Bloch’s Ichthyologie ou, Histoire naturelle des poissons. Berlin 1796.

Source: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library (online via Biodiversity Heritage Library: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/26748).

#queen triggerfish in art #old wifes (fish) in art #balistidae in art #fish in art #animals in art #Bloch #18th century #Ernst Mayr Library #biodiversity heritage library

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fatchance · 1 year

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I’m pausing posts for a few days. Back soon.

Here are some Arizona saguaros to bridge the gap.

Image adapted from U. S. Geographical Surveys West of 100th Meridian from 1878, from the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s flickr photo stream. If you enjoy vintage scientific illustration it’s a great place to while away the hours until I return.

#vintage scientific illustration #Biodiversity Heritage Library #away message #saguaro cactus

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birdwatcher-sketches · 2 years

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European Robin (Erithacus rubecula)

#european robin #erithacus rubecula #muscicapidae #passeriformes #biodiversity heritage library #birds

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cupofmeat · 8 months

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A pictorial atlas of fossil remains, H.G. Bohn, London 1850.

#illustration #natural history #biodiversity heritage library

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podartists · 19 days

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Singschwan, Cygnus cygnus | Die Vogel (1913) | Alfred Edmund Brehm (1829-1884) | Biodiversity Heritage Library

#alfred edmund brehm #cygnus cygnus #anatidae #biologie #tierleben #singschwan #vogelporträt #tiere #vögel #schwäne #biodiversity heritage library #illustration

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days-of-storm · 4 months

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Instead of using AI generated "art", here's an incredible resource of public domain images that can be used for table top game design or many other purposes!

#free art #public domain #table top gaming #public domain art #art #metropolitan museum #Rijksmuseum #New York Public Library #Biodiversity Heritage Library #Artvee #National Gallery of Art #cool things #free resources #creativity

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empirearchives · 1 year

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It makes me so happy to see art based on other art :)

This jacket by Tran Hung is based on the Colossal Octopus by the French naturalist, Pierre Denys de Montfort, 1801-1810

(Histoire naturelle)

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mote-historie · 1 year

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Cabbage Rose and Butterfly by Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Original from Biodiversity Heritage Library.

#pierre-joseph redouté #pierre joseph redouté #cabbage rose #rose #butterfly #botanical #botanical art #art #flowers #flower artist #biodiversity heritage library

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fuckyeahneena · 1 year

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Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures extraordinaires,. A Amsterdam, Chez Reinier & Josué Ottens, 1754.

#biodiversity #biodiversity heritage library #harvard #museum of comparative zoology #zoology

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histsciart · 19 days

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Tulips

SciArt by Philip Reinagle for Robert John Thornton, Temple of Flora (1807).

View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (@biodivlibrary) with thanks to the Peter H. Raven Library of the Missouri Botanical Garden (@mobotgarden) for digitizing.

#bhlib #histsciart #sciart #naturalhistory #biodiversity heritage library #flowers #Missouri Botanical Garden #flowercore #tulips

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arthistoryanimalia · 1 year

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For #WorldTunaDay:

"TUNA LEAPING OVER MR. BERRY'S BOAT." Plate 18 in the fun-titled book Fish stories alleged and experienced, with a little history natural and unnatural by C. F. Holder & D. S. Jordan, 1909. Biodiversity Heritage Library.

#fish #tuna #book illustration #book plate #lithograph #illustration #natural history art #animal holiday #World Tuna Day #animals in art #Biodiversity Heritage Library #20th century art #American art #1900s

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gessner-aldrovandi-et-amici · 1 year

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Zebra shark from Marcus Elesier Bloch’s Ichthyologie ou, Histoire naturelle des poissons. Berlin 1796.

Source: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library (online via Biodiversity Heritage Library: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/26748).

#zebra sharks in art #sharks in art #stegostomatidae in art #fish in art #animals in art #Bloch #18th century #biodiversity heritage library #Ernst Mayr Library

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theunderperformicist · 1 year

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