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Watercolors of birds by Victorians John and Elizabeth Gould. She did watercolors and he was a book writing ornithologist. 1800-1840.
Category: Botanical print
Hand colored stippled engravings of fruit to make your parlor look like an orchard. If you squeeze your eyes shut long enough I’m sure it will smell just like peaches in summer. From George Brookshaw’s 1817 work “Pomona Britannica” . Starting off as a cabinet maker, Brookshaw reinvented himself as a fruit and flower painter. Lucky we are that he did.
Renaissance calligraphy and botany all in one place from the illuminated manuscript “Mira calligraphae monumenta”. Calligraphy done in 1561 and 1562 by Georg Bocksay, secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I. Flora and fauna added thirty years later by Joris Hoefnagel at the request of Ferdinand’s grandson Rudolph II.
These are a mere sampling of what is contained in this manuscript. Please check out this link if you’d like to look at more: http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/1487/joris-hoefnagel-and-georg-bocskay-mira-calligraphiae-monumenta-flemish-and-hungarian-fols-1-129-written-1561-1562-illumination-added-about-1591-1596/?dz=0.5000,0.5000,0.50
More tropical flowers but from a bit further back than yesterday. From Nancy Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft’s 1828 tome “Specimens of the Plants and Fruits of the Island of Cuba”.
Second blog post of botanical drawings from this book. More coming. Much left to look through.
Flowers in Cuba from a long time ago. From American Nancy Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft’s “Specimens of the Plants and Fruits of the Island of Cuba”. Gone since 1828 she has left a glorious treasury for us to see. Digitized and made available for download at the HathiTrust digital library, by way of Cornell University’s Library Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.
