Special Collections Librarian / Print Historian
Fascinated by the history of scientific illustration. Documenting natural history books I encounter in my research 📚🦋
Sarah Finn
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Anatomy of frog from ‘L’ecrevisse (anatomie et dissection): planches coloriées à feuillets découpés et superposés’ by Jules Philippe Louis Anglas, 1916.
UW-Madison’s Special Collections.
#foldoutanatomy #animalanatomy #naturalhistory #scientificart #sciart #rarebooks
Sea urchin tests (shells) from ‘Deliciae naturae selectae: oder, Auserlesenes naturalien-cabinet, welches aus den drey reichen der natur zeight, was von curiösen liebhabern aufbehalten und gesammelt zu werden verdienet’ by Georg Wolfgang Knorr. Published in Nuremberg, 1766-67.
Library of Congress.
Chromolithograph of Sri Lanka from ‘Pflanzenleben’ by Anton Kerner Von Marilaun, 1913. Artist is Ernst Friedrich Heyn.
#chromolithograph #naturalhistory #Pflanzenleben #ErnstFriedrichHeyn
Hedgehog from 'Angenehmer und nützlicher Zeit-vertreib mit Betrachtung curioser Vorstellungen allerhand kriechender, fliegender und schwimmender, auf dem Land und im Wasser' by Johann Daniel Meyer. Nürnberg: gedruckt bey J.J. Fleischmann, 1748-56.
University of Chicago Special Collections.
Jan van Kessel the Elder’s “entomological authorgraph” from 1658. The artist’s name is depicted with insects and reptiles.
I saw this last year at the exhibition Little Beasts: Art, Wonder, and the Natural World at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
#naturalhistory #insectart #sciart
Fish illustrations from Charles d’Orbigny’s ‘Dictionnaire Universel d’Histoire Naturelle’ published in Paris, 1847-1849.
American Geographical Society Library.
#naturalhistory #scientificillustration #fishart
Primula auricula from ‘Ten Lithographic Coloured Flowers with Botanical Descriptions’ drawn and coloured by a lady. Printed from the stone by R. H. Nimmo. Published in Edinburgh by David Brown, 1826.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Special Collections.
#hernaturalhistory #botanicalart
Ulysses butterfly (Papilio ulysses) from ‘An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of India, and the Islands in the Indian Seas’ by Edward Donovan. London: Printed for the author by T. Bensley, 1800.
Harvard’s Houghton Library.
#naturalhistory #insectart
