art_history_animalia, 5 months ago to random

It’s finally out in the wild! 🙌 My article published today in Archives of Natural History: The ornithology of Agnes Block (1629–1704): Dutch naturalist, artist, collector and patron https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/anh.2023.0860
#DutchArt #NaturalHistoryArt #BirdsInArt

art_history_animalia, 10 months ago to random

#MammalMonday #MarsupialMonday #MonotremeMonday mashup:
"Scene in #Tasmania, with Characteristic Mammalia": #Thylacines, #Bandicoots, #Wombats, and an #Echidna!
Pl.XI in Alfred Russel Wallace's The Geographical Distribution of Animals Vol. 1, 1876; illustration by Johann Baptist Zwecker.

https://archive.org/details/geographicaldist01wall2/page/n503/mode/1up

#biogeography #zoology #naturalhistoryart #sciart #bookart

art_history_animalia, 1 year ago to random

Happy #WorldTapirDay! These paintings of an adult & juvenile Malayan #Tapir (Tapirus indicus) are 2 of the 477 watercolors of flora & fauna by Chinese artists commissioned by William Farquhar when he was the Resident of Malacca from 1803-18, now in the National Museum of Singapore:

https://www.roots.gov.sg/Collection-Landing/listing/1083462
https://www.roots.gov.sg/Collection-Landing/listing/1082542

#naturalhistoryart #sciart

Title Young Tapir, William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings Region Malacca,Malaysia Material watercolour on paper Dimension Image size: 38 x 54.2 cm (Image) Image size: 58 x 44 cm (Mount) Accession No. 1995-02884 Collection of National Museum of Singapore