vintage: scientific illustrations

Although a variety of stylus that were developed in ancient times and were still being used in the 18th century, quills were generally used as the main drawing tool. Stylii were also used in the form of ivory or ebony pencils. Protractors were used to measure and draw angles and arcs
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Vintage Vegetable Botanical Print, Food Plant Chart, Art Illustration, Wall Decor, Cauliflower, Broccoli.
NYPL Digital Collections
Datura arborea = Stramoine en arbre. [Tree datura] 1801-1819
The Antiquarium - Antique Print & Map Gallery - Michael Valentini - Chrysantheum Hand-colored copperplate engraving
Michael Valentini. Drawing of Chrysantheum. 1719.
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Johann Georg Conrad Oberdieck Schone von Chatenay. 1881.
~Wunderkammer~
Cicadas. From Brehms Tierleben (Brehm’s animal life) vol. 9, by Alfred Edmund Brehm, Leipzig, Vienna, 1893.
tentacle garden
The natural history of beetles Edinburgh :Henry G. Bohn,1852.
v.80=ser.3:v.10 (1854) [no.4758-4824] - Curtis's botanical magazine - Biodiversity Heritage Library
Cereus lemairii. Curtis's botanical magazine. (1854). London.
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Late 18th century natural history watercolor of the Female Summer Duck of Georgia.
The florist and pomologist. London :"Journal of Horticulture" Office,1863-1879
Leggi argomento - Jan Van Kessel (1626-1679)
Jan Van Kessel.
tentacle garden
Parrots, Brehm’s Life of Animals, 1883, Antique chromolithograph.