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Eleven Birds from Four Continents: The Ornithol...
Before colour photography replaced hand-crafted illustration in encyclopedias, the Diccionario Enciclopédico Salvat produced some of the most beautiful scientific bird plates of the 20th century. Their ornithology plate — eleven...
Eleven Birds from Four Continents: The Ornithol...
Before colour photography replaced hand-crafted illustration in encyclopedias, the Diccionario Enciclopédico Salvat produced some of the most beautiful scientific bird plates of the 20th century. Their ornithology plate — eleven...
The Songbirds of Europe: Kurt Lampert, Chromoli...
In 1905, Kurt Lampert — director of the Royal Natural History Museum in Stuttgart — published Die Singvögel Europas, a chromolithographic atlas that gave the finches, grosbeaks, and crossbills of...
The Songbirds of Europe: Kurt Lampert, Chromoli...
In 1905, Kurt Lampert — director of the Royal Natural History Museum in Stuttgart — published Die Singvögel Europas, a chromolithographic atlas that gave the finches, grosbeaks, and crossbills of...
The Cat That Conquered Paris: Steinlen, Le Chat...
In 1881, Rodolphe Salis opened a cabaret in Montmartre and named it after a black cat. Within a decade, Le Chat Noir had become the most famous nightclub in the...
The Cat That Conquered Paris: Steinlen, Le Chat...
In 1881, Rodolphe Salis opened a cabaret in Montmartre and named it after a black cat. Within a decade, Le Chat Noir had become the most famous nightclub in the...
The Golden Age of the Iris: Weinmann’s Phytanth...
In 1719, Michael Bernhard Valentini documented the iris in the Florilegium tradition of Besler and de Bry. Eighteen years later, Johann Wilhelm Weinmann gave it one of the most precise...
The Golden Age of the Iris: Weinmann’s Phytanth...
In 1719, Michael Bernhard Valentini documented the iris in the Florilegium tradition of Besler and de Bry. Eighteen years later, Johann Wilhelm Weinmann gave it one of the most precise...
The Flower Painters of Amsterdam: Nicolas Rober...
In 1794, a company of Amsterdam scholars published a 54-plate masterwork of hand-coloured copperplate engravings celebrating the flowers of the Dutch Golden Age. Among their sources was Nicolas Robert —...
The Flower Painters of Amsterdam: Nicolas Rober...
In 1794, a company of Amsterdam scholars published a 54-plate masterwork of hand-coloured copperplate engravings celebrating the flowers of the Dutch Golden Age. Among their sources was Nicolas Robert —...
The Forest in the Classroom: Sytina’s Russian S...
In 1910, Russia’s greatest educational publisher gave the Norway Spruce and Silver Birch their most beautiful pedagogical portrait. In 1885, Germany’s greatest botanical illustrator gave the same spruce its most...
The Forest in the Classroom: Sytina’s Russian S...
In 1910, Russia’s greatest educational publisher gave the Norway Spruce and Silver Birch their most beautiful pedagogical portrait. In 1885, Germany’s greatest botanical illustrator gave the same spruce its most...