Nearly forgotten but glorious art, envisionings and historical oddments from the back corners of the internet
Make your bathroom look like the South Seas wherever you are. Javanese flora, taken from the third edition of Madame Berthe Holla van Nooten’s 1880 work “Fleurs, fruits et feuillages choisies de l’Ile de Java peints d’après nature”. Printed in Brussels by Librairie Européenne C. Muquardt. Chromolithography by P. Depannemaeker.
“Caladium bicolor. vent. Tallas Sabrang.” Page 48.Collections of and digitalized by the Peter H. Raven Library, Missouri Botanical Garden. In the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/9710#page/48/mode/1up“Stercula Nobilis.Smith.Hantap. Page 55. Collections of and digitalized by the Peter H. Raven Library, Missouri Botanical Garden. In the public domain due to age. viahttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/9710#page/56/mode/1up“Otophora Alata. BL. PisangTjina.” Page 60, Collections of and digitalized by the Peter H. Raven Library, Missouri Botanical Garden. In the public domain due to age. viahttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/9710#page/60/mode/1upAmarante tricolore. L. Bayem Meera. Bibliothèque C. Muquardt, éditeur Bruxelles. Peint d’après nature par Madame Berthe Hoola van Nooten, a Batavia. Chromolithe par P. De Pannemaker, à Ledeberg lez Gand (Belgique). Page 64. Collections of and digitalized by the Peter H. Raven Library, Missouri Botanical Garden. In the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/9710#page/64/mode/1upSpathiphyllopsis Minahassae T. & B. Tjarianc Poetie. Bibliothèque C. Muquardt, éditeur Bruxelles. Peint d’après nature par Madame Berthe Hoola van Nooten, a Batavia. Chromolithe par P. De Pannemaker, à Ledeberg lez Gand (Belgique). Page 68. Collections of and digitalized by the Peter H. Raven Library, Missouri Botanical Garden. In the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/9710#page/68/mode/1upGarcina Mangostana L. Mangus. Bibliothèque C. Muquardt, éditeur Bruxelles. Peint d’après nature par Madame Berthe Hoola van Nooten, a Batavia. Chromolithe par P. De Pannemaker, à Ledeberg lez Gand (Belgique). Page 76. Collections of and digitalized by the Peter H. Raven Library, Missouri Botanical Garden. In the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/9710#page/76/mode/1upPoinsettia Pulcherrima Gram. Bibliothèque C. Muquardt, éditeur Bruxelles. Peint d’après nature par Madame Berthe Hoola van Nooten, a Batavia. Chromolithe par P. De Pannemaker, à Ledeberg lez Gand (Belgique). Page 80. Collections of and digitalized by the Peter H. Raven Library, Missouri Botanical Garden. In the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/9710#page/80/mode/1up
On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.
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