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Tulips

SciArt by Philip Reinagle for Robert John Thornton, Temple of Flora (1807).

View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (@biodivlibrary) with thanks to the Peter H. Raven Library of the Missouri Botanical Garden (@mobotgarden) for digitizing.

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Beautiful Butterflies

SciArt by Emile-Allain Séguy for his Papillons (1925).

Séguy was inspired by nature to design decorative patterns meant for textiles and wallpapers.

Séguy's Papillons (1925) is part of the Public Domain, which means that these illustrations may be reused for any purpose. As an example, I used the lower pattern of this illustration to create my website's header.

View more in Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (@smithsonianlibraries) for digitizing.

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Butterflies, aster, and snakes shown on Plate 10 of Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Curiosities, T.1 (1734-65).

View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives for digitizing.

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SQUIRREL!!!

Red and white giant flying squirrel (Petaurista alborufus), a native of China. 

SciArt by Huet for Henri Milne-Edwards, Recherches sur les Mammifères, Vol. 2 Atlas (1868-74). View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (@smithsonianlibraries) for digitizing.

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A Blue Wingsday

The Blue Morpho Butterfly (Morpho menelaus) is an iridescent star of the Central and South American forests. The underside of their wings, in contrast, is a dull brown. The artist strove to capture the iridescence by mixing blues and purples, some of which appear to have faded over time.

SciArt from Histoire Naturelle des Lépidoptères Exotiques (1835) by Pierre Hippolyte Lucas. View more in Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to Smithsonian Libraries and Archives for digitizing.

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Fuchsias by Worthington G. Smith for The Floral Magazine, Vol. 9 (1870). View more in Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to the Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden for digitizing.

#fuchsias #flowercore #bhlib #histsciart #sciart #naturalhistory #biodiversity heritage library #flowers #flower aesthetic #NYBG

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Oceans of Blue and Gold

This marbled paper comes from The Butterflies of Australia (1914) by Gustavus A. Waterhouse.

View more in Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to Museums Victoria and the Atlas of Living Australia for digitizing.

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Bromeliad

Vriesea fenestralis, a native of Brazil.

SciArt by Pieter de Pannemaeker for L'Illustration Horticole, Vol. 21-22 (1874-1875). View more in Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to the Peter H. Raven Library of the Missouri Botanical Garden for digitizing.

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Orchids

Cattleya warscewiczii, a native of Colombia.

SciArt by Pieter de Pannemaeker for L'Illustration Horticole, Vol. 21-22 (1874-1875). View more in Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to the Peter H. Raven Library of the Missouri Botanical Garden for digitizing.

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Azalea "Marquis Corsi"

Genus Rhododendron.

SciArt by Pieter de Pannemaeker for L'Illustration Horticole, Vol. 21-22 (1874-1875). View more in Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to the Peter H. Raven Library of the Missouri Botanical Garden for digitizing.

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Camellia "Don Pedro"

Japanese Camellia (Camellia japonica).

SciArt by Pieter de Pannemaeker for L'Illustration Horticole, Vol. 21-22 (1874-1875). View more in Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to the Peter H. Raven Library of the Missouri Botanical Garden for digitizing.

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Passionflower (published 1835). Illustration by Elisabeth Theodora Van Thiel.

Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden.

Wikimedia.

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Happy Caturday!

Abyssinian and Indian cats from a painting by William Luker, Jr., as reproduced in The Book of the Cat (1903).

View more cats in Biodiversity Heritage Library's Flickr album with the digitized illustrations from The Book of the Cat.

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Happy Froggy Friday with Toadlets!

The European common toad (Bufo bufo) in two variations with bonus toadlets! SciArt from Getreue Abbildungen Naturhistorischer, Bd. 1 (1793), edited by Johann Matthäus Bechstein.

But it's a toad! How can it be part of Froggy Friday?! All toads are frogs, but not all frogs are toads. Learn more about the differences, or should I say similarities.

View more in Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to Smithsonian Libraries and Archives for digitizing.

#frogs #toads #toadlets #herpetology #amphibians #froggy friday #frog friday #HistSciArt #Biodiversity Heritage Library #smithsonian libraries

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Happy Fern Friday!

Two fabulous ferns from James Britten's European Ferns (1879-81). On the left is the Hart's Tongue Fern (Asplenium scolopendrium), and on the right is another spleenwort (Asplenium sagittatum).

These ferns were commonly called "spleenworts" because they were thought to treat disorders of the spleen based on the "Doctrine of Signatures", which held that plants that resembled the shapes of body parts were meant to treat ailments of those body parts.

View more in Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to Harvard University Botany Libraries for digitizing.

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A Beautiful Bouquet of Chrysanthemums

This gorgeous botanical illustration of chrysanthemums grown from seed comes from the John Lewis Childs 1888 seed catalogue, New Rare and Beautiful Flowers.

The bouquet of dahlias is just as beautiful.

Biodiversity Heritage Library hosted a wonderful social media event in 2017 involving the USDA National Agricultural Library's collection of over 200,000 Seed & Nursery Catalogues. Explore all the details on their permanent page.

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Happy Feathursday!

Pheasant pigeons (Otidiphaps nobilis) are natives of the rainforests of New Guinea and surrounding islands.

SciArt by John Gould and Henry Constantine Richter for Gould's Birds of Asia, Vol. 6 (1850-83). View more in Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (@smithsonianlibraries) for digitizing.

#Pheasant pigeons #birds #ornithology #BHLib #Biodiversity Heritage Library #Smithsonian Libraries #Feathursday #SciArt #scientific illustration #scientific art #HistSciArt