#scientific illustration
Ichthyology - Sir William Jardine - 1854 - via Internet Archive
Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux, et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée - Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) - via Gallica
Vlyssis Aldrovandi - De reliquis animalibus exanguibus libri quatuor, post mortem eius editi : nempe de mollibvs, crvstaceis, testaceis et zoophytis - 1642 - via Internet Archive
Ant trails observed by scientist.Ants, bees, and wasps : a record of observations on the habits of the social hymenoptera.1882.
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Minimalist vintage diagrams of animals, plants, and the human body by the forgotten French artist Paul Sougy
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For World Reef Day, William Saville Kent’s stunning 19th-century illustrations from the world’s first pictorial encyclopedia about the Great Barrier Reef.
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On this day in 1930, the Bathysphere—William Beebe’s revolutionary spherical submersible—took its first test dive. Soon, expedition artist Else Bostelmannwaspainting deep-sea creatures human eyes had never seen and the human mind hadn’t even imagined.
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Purple Gallinule
16'’x12′’ acrylic, gouache, and watercolor on paper.
Finally, finally this one is finished. Felt good to work with traditional mediums again! Also its a nice challenge to not have a ‘delete’ button :)
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