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Anna Maria and her sister Frances Reed created the one hundred and forty detailed, hand-colored mushroom lithographs.

Geastrum, or Earthstar mushroom, from Anna Maria Hussey’s ‘Illustrations of British mycology’ Published in London: Reeve, Benham and Reeve, 1849-55.

I saw this at UW-Madison Special Collections.

#hernaturalhistory #Geastrum #earthstar

Moth from Maria Sybilla Merian’s ‘Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium.’ Amsterdam: Gerard Valck, 1705.

I saw this at the Natural History Museum in London @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social.

#MariaSibyllaMerian #naturalhistory #insectart #sciart

Pigeon from “Illustrirtes Mustertauben-Buch” by Gustav Prütz and illustrated by Christian Förster. Hamburg: J. F. Richter, 1884-1886.

#pigeons #birdart #chromolithography #pigeonart #naturalhistory #sciart

Eclipse of the Moon from "Atlas of Astronomy" by Alexander Keith Johnston.

Published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1855.

#AtlasofAstronomy #lunareclipse #astronomy #celestial #astronomychart #sciart

Proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) from Jean Baptiste Audebert’s ‘Histoire Naturelle des Singes et des Makis.’ Paris: Desray, 1800.

I saw this book at the University of Chicago’s Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections.

#naturalhistory #monkeyart

These are both so gorgeous! Thanks for sharing.

Crocus for the last day of February. Illustrated by Frederick Edward Hulme for ‘The Garland of the Year, or, The Months: their poetry and flowers: with twelve chromographs of flowers, one for each month.’ London, 1873.

From my personal collection. 🌱

#LanguageofFlowers #chromolithograph #crocus

Flowers from ‘Les fleurs animées’ or ‘The Flowers Personified,’ illustrated by French caricaturist J. J. Grandville. First published in 1847. This is a later 1867 edition published in Paris by Garnier Frères.

From my personal collection 📚🌷💐

#botanicalillustration #rarebooks

Caterpillars 🐛 from ‘Archives De l’Histoire Des Insectes.’ Publiées En Allemand par Jean Gaspar Fuessly. Winterthour: J. Ziegler, 1794.

UW-Madison Special Collections Library.

#scientificillustration #Caterpillars #insectart #Caterpillarart

Paradoxical frog (Pseudis paradoxa) and horned frog (Ceratophrys cornuta?) from 'Pantologia. A New Cyclopædia' by John Mason Good, Olinthus Gregory, and Newton Bosworth. London, 1813. Illustrations by Sydenham Edwards.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Special Collections.

#naturalhistory #frogart

Echinoderms from ‘Zoologischer Hand-Atlas zum Schulgebrauch und Selbstunterricht’ by German Zoologist Hermann Burmeister. Second edition. Published in Berlin, Druck und Verlag von Georg Reimer, 1860.

#sciart #naturalhistory #Echinoderm #starfish

Horses from ‘Johnson’s Household Book of Nature, Containing Full and Interesting Descriptions of the Animal Kingdom,’ edited by Hugh Craig. New York, 1880.

#naturalhistory #horses #horseart #lithography #yearofthehorse #animalart

‘An Illustrated Natural History of British Butterflies and Moths’ by Edward Newman. Figures engraved by George Willis and engraved by John Kirchner. London, c1870s.

#insectart #naturalhistory #publishersbindings

It reads “See to the fight the gentle warriors move, And dart with harmless force the shafts of love !”

Garden snails and their love darts 🎯🐌💘 from ‘The Naturalist’s Miscellany’ by George Shaw, published by Elizabeth Nodder and illustrated by Frederick Polydore Nodder, 1789-1813. This is from the 1814-1817 edition.

UW-Madison Special Collections @uwmadspec.

#snails #naturalhistory #animalart

Cobaea scandens from ‘Fragmenta botanica, figuris coloratis illustrata’ by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin. Viennae, Austriae: Typis Mathiae Andreae Schmidt, typogr. Universit., 1809.

UW-Madison Special Collections.

#botanicalart #flowerillustration #Cobaeascandens

Beetles and other bugs by G. Baldassini from Volume One of the Italian art portfolio series ‘Modelli D’arte Decorativa,’ published by Bestetti and Tumminelli in the 1910s.

UW-Milwaukee Special Collections.

#beetleart #insectart #coleoptera

Hand-colored copper engraving of fish from the 2nd edition of ‘Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures extraordinaires …’ by Louis Renard, published in Amsterdam in 1754.

I saw this when I visited the National Library of Scotland.

#naturalhistory #sciart #fishart

Flowers and butterflies from ‘Collection de fleurs, d’oiseaux d’insectes.’ Drawn and colored by various students of the Royal School of Sorèze. Manuscript, 1783-1789.

I saw this at Harvard’s Houghton Library.

#naturalhistory #botanicalart #Lepidoptera #insectart

Bats 🦇 by Karl Joseph Brodtmann from ‘Naturhistorische Bilder-Gallerie aus dem Thierreiche.’ Leipzig, 1816.

I saw this book at UW-Madison Special Collections Library.

#naturalhistory #batart #batillustration #sciart

“Le Coq de roche jeune âge” by Jacques Barraband for ‘Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celle des toucans et des barbus’ by François Levaillant. Paris: Chez Denné le jeune, 1806.

University of Chicago Special Collections.

#naturalhistory #birdart #ornithology