The illustrations of military uniform caricatures below were found among the magnificent Prints, Drawings, and Watercolors site from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection at Brown University in Pr...
"I believe that my first attraction towards the family of Sun-birds took place in Nubia, where I fell in with Hedydipna metallica, the first truly tropical form of bird that I had ever procured.&...
The Chinese Fish Collection is a large set of 19th century watercolour sketches depicting species from the waterways and seas of China and Japan. The illustrations range from the absurd t...
Stylised 17th century floriated letterforms &grotesque mask sprinkles Baroque absurdities or genius ornamental typeforms? Take your pick. The prints above and below were designed in the mid-1600s...
The Ex Libris (bookplate) illustrations below were selected from the first half of the enormous John Starr Stewart Collection at the University of Illinois. Will from 50Watts sampled the back half of...
African, early Medieval, Greek, ancient Egyptian, Islamic, Pacific Island and Tibetan mandala line drawing designs African Designs Early Medieval Designs Greek Designs Ancient Egyptian Designs I...
These illustrations by Tsuchiya Rakusan are (mostly) from a series of 100 large woodblock prints called Rakuzan Kachou Gafu, based on paintings that Rakusan made between 1925 and 1929. They are displ...
The illuminated manuscript images below are owned by Fondation Martin Bodmer in the Geneva municipality of Cologny and hosted online through the esteemed Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland. (e...
Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glassThat I may see my shadow as I pass Shakespeare: Richard III Act 1 Scene 2** A Foolscap A Greedy Pig A Parrot A Crocodile A Pump A Bantom A Little Duck A...
The images in this post all come from Columbia Universitys very large assortment of commercial stationery (featuring architectural illustrations): the Biggert Collection. The vast majority of the ima...
The images here are from the Historic Entomology Online site at Wageningen UR "Araneina epeira"Araneus^ is a genus of common orb-weaving spiders. Araneus was formerly called ep...
"American whale oil lit the world. It was used in the production of soap, textiles, leather, paints, and varnishes, and it lubricated the tools and machines that drove the Industrial Revolution. ...
These lithographic scenes from the Crimean War, based on sketches by William Simpson, were published in London in a couple of series by Colnaghi & co. in the second half of the 1850s. The illustr...
The 17th century engravings below come from a book of love emblems that is variously categorised around the traps as erotic and pornographic - it will help if you are trilingual and have a (very) goo...
The images below (background spot-cleaned) come from a rather obscure 16th century anonymous paper manuscript containing sketches of geometric solids. The illustrations have been cropped from the sli...
The images below come from Waterlife (by Rambharos Jha, 2012) ANDI Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail (illustrated by Ramsingh Urveti, 2012) All illustrations are © Tara Books and the respective authors...
Papierlaternen-Fabrik Riethmüller [makers catalog] Anonymous, c. 1880 - happy chromolithographs - from the Metropolitan Museum of Art website. {six prints are it} Previously related? Not really, but ...
Series Imaginum Augustae Domus Boicae, ad Genuina Ectypa Aliaque Monum Fide Digna delin. et Aaeri Incidit, Monachium 1773 by Joseph Anton Zimmerman, is online at the Bavarian State Library in Mu...
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. They have all been background spot-cleaned to varying extents. Kingfisher "A single kingfisher is depicted perched on a ...
Im afraid I dont recall where these stylised organic line drawings came from. They were scanned a couple of years ago from a library book but I didnt keep the details. Such is life. Previous line dra...
The images below come from a Harvard Library exhibition from last year called: Going for Baroque - The Iconography of the Ornamental Map [LINK] "The ornamental features that may now seem little m...
Codex Sloane 4016 is a 15th century Italian parchment manuscript belonging to a class of books known as herbals. These medicinal treatises recorded knowledge accumulated in the oral tradition about p...
Kalligraphische Schriftvorlagen (calligraphic writing styles) was produced in the 1620s in Germany by the scribe, Johann Hering.Johann Hering (?1580-1647) compiled his album of elaborate calligraphic...
Images Depicting the Gods of the Ancients by Vincenzo Cartari was first published in 1556. The engravings below are from a 1624 edition (in Italian).Le Imagini De gli Dei de gli Antichi by Vincenzo C...
The very rare, 2-volume series, Anatome Testudinis Europaeae, by LH Bojanus was published in 1819-1821 (in Latin), and includes 39 stipple engravings by F Lehmann after drawings by the author.[The im...
All images below © Yuko Shimizu (posted with permission)Blow Up 3 © Yuko Shimizu (2010) [book]DJ Slip Mat (A Nice Set) © Yuko Shimizu (2006) [book]When I Opened My Eyes © Yuko Shimizu (2009) [book]He...
The zoology of Captain Beecheys voyage / compiled from the collections and notes made by Captain Beechey^, the officers and naturalist of the expedition, during a voyage to the Pacific and Behrings S...
"The upward progress of a rocket,lit in the basement by the janitors son,causes some strange situations as itpasses through 20 floors of apartments!"American artist and author, Peter Newell (...
Fantasy ornament designs (1550s) by Cornelis Bos- image captions below are translated/edited. A bit.Chariot of grotesques and scrollwork drawn by two fantasy animals and pushed by a satyr, whose head...
All images below © Oscar Sanmartin{posted here with permission}El Planeta HermeticoEl Hotel MaelstronNadal BaronioEl Efecto Lupa El Niño Gusano 1995FuneralRitual de FecundidadEl Faro de AlesiaComposi...
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