For #WorldRhinoDay + #ElephantAppreciationDay 🦏🐘: Christine McGinnis (USA, 1937-2019) #Elephant & #Rhino Mid to late 20th c. Acrylic on canvas, 36" x 36" (42" x 42" framed) www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/... #WomenArtists

Reposting for #WorldRhinoDay + #ElephantAppreciationDay 🦏🐘

Reposting for #WorldRhinoDay + #ElephantAppreciationDay 🦏🐘

Reposting for #WorldRhinoDay + #ElephantAppreciationDay 🦏🐘

Reposting for #WorldRhinoDay + #ElephantAppreciationDay 🦏🐘

Reposting for #WorldRhinoDay + #ElephantAppreciationDay 🦏🐘

Pauojoungie Saggiak (Inuit; Iqaluit, NU, b.1959) Treasures of the Sea Kinngait (Cape Dorset), 2016 Lithograph, 57 x 76.2 cm (22 3/8 x 30 in.) www.dorsetfinearts.com/available-pr... #InuitArt #FirstNationsArt #IndigenousArt #ContemporaryArt #Shells

Water Dropper Shaped Like a Long-Eared Hare Japan, Edo Period, 18th-19th c. Cast bronze with carving Tokyo National Museum E-20456 colbase.nich.go.jp/collection_i... #JapaneseArt

Ornithomorphic vessel Encrusted Pottery culture, Baley Necropolis (Bulgaria), 1400-1250 BCE Clay: H 11.8 сm, D rim 5.6 сm Burial feature 123А, placed in urn, Inv. No П27 NAIM-BAS National Archaeological Institute with Museum, Bulgaria 3dlab.iict.bas.bg/baley/ornith... #BirdsInArt 🆔 duck or coot?

The Terrestrial Paradise, Studio of Paul de Vos, c. 1650 (Musée du Louvre)

Red bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea rubra) by Jacques Barraband for ‘Histoire Naturelle Des Oiseaux De Paradis Et Des Rolliers, Suivie De Celle Des Toucans Et Des Barbus’ by François Levaillant. Paris: Chez Denné le jeune, 1806. University of Chicago Special Collections #naturalhistory #rarebooks

Caribbean Reef Octopuses 🐙 hand sculpted from clay 🎨 #ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #CoralReef #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡

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Lot 52. Property from the Estate of Jay and Mary Jayne Jones. A sancai-glazed caparisoned horse, Tang dynasty (618-907); 50.8cm high; 47cm across . Sold for US$16,384. © Bonhams 2001-2025 www.alaintruong.com/2025/09/chin...

Yan Pei-Ming, The Wise Little Monkey, 2025, oil on canvas, 39 x 54 cm © Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac gallery London, Paris, Salzburg, Milan, Seoul / © Clérln-Morin / © Yan Pei-Ming / Adagp, Paris, 2025 www.alaintruong.com/2025/09/yan-...

Yan Pei-Ming, Monkey, Eye to Eye, 2025 © Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac gallery London, Paris, Salzburg, Milan, Seoul / © Clérln-Morin / © Yan Pei-Ming / Adagp, Paris, 2025 www.alaintruong.com/2025/09/yan-...

"The Clever Hare with the King of the Elephants at the Spring of the Moon", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna 2nd quarter 16th century Attributed to Gujarat, probably based on an Egyptian original (Met Museum)

Turkey cock (Meleagris gallopavo), by Mansur, opaque watercolour & gold on paper. This painting was done for the Mughal emperor Jahangir (r. 1605-1627) & is a record of the arrival of this exotic bird at the court in 1612. (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

Rhinoceros, 1515 Hans Burgkmair the Elder. (b Augsburg 1473 - d. 1531 Augsburg) (Albertina, Vienna)

This #Baturday we’re reflecting on the future of the Christmas Island flying fox. The Guardian recently reported on scientists' fears that this bat could be “one cyclone away from extinction.” These bats are important seed dispersers and pollinators. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24862810

🐯 Lions, tigers, &c., &c London: H. G. Bohn [etc.]1846? [Source]

“Everybunny up for a Conga Line !” - 14th century, British Library, Add. 36684, f. 24v

A hand-book to the game-birds London: E. Lloyd, 1896-1897. (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15243601) #nature #illustration #art

🦤 Gemeinnüzzige Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs bd 2 plates Berlin ;bei Gottlieb August Lange, 1780-1789. [Source]

#Caturday 🐱: Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita (藤田 嗣治, Fujita Tsuguharu; Japan-France, 1886-1968) Couturier #Cat, 1927 Oil on Canvas, 20×24 cm www.wikiart.org/en/tsuguharu...

#InternationalRedPandaDay: 1st image seen in Europe: Unknown Indian artist commissioned by Thomas Hardwicke, c.1820 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An... 1st published image: J.C. Werner for Frédéric Cuvier, 1825, Pl.52 in Histoire naturelle des mammifères www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/155515#...

Resharing for #InternationalRedPandaDay

Resharing for #InternationalRedPandaDay

Resharing for #InternationalRedPandaDay

Resharing for #InternationalRedPandaDay

Another fine example of a lion done by a medieval artist that had never seen one from the front - 15th century, British Library, Add. MS 18850, f. 7r

Bronze animals by Jeffrey Gibson now decorate The Met’s facade. The four creatures depicted — a deer, a coyote, a hawk, and a squirrel — carry significance in certain Indigenous cultures.

Move over, Gary the Snail. There’s a new gastropod in town, and its name is “Anauchen picasso” (like the painter) due to its defined, swirled shell that evokes early 20th-century Cubism.

The elephant in the room....🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘 Bodleian Library Arch. G b.6; Historia naturale di Caio Plinio Secondo, tradocta di lingua latina in fiorentina per Christophoro Landino; 1476 CE; Italy (Venice); f.93v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Make your own peacock in 1589. Federico de Vinciolo (Musée du Louvre)

A peacock tile, Ottoman, Damascus, c. 1550-1600. (V&A Museum, London)

Field of sixteen tiles with birds, Dutch, c. 1640 - c. 1660 (Rijksmuseum)

Pet politics. Cat Playing with Two Dogs 1652 Paulus Potter "Several elements in the picture suggest a political reading in which the dogs parody declining Spanish power and the cat stands for the strength of Dutch nationhood". (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

This #ThreatenedThursday we’re highlighting another small creature first described by Baldwin Spencer: the #kowari. The kowari is a small marsupial of the gibber desert. Its distinguishing feature is its tail, with those black hairs at the end. Stylish! www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57973468

🐿 Wild animals of North America Washington, D.C., The National geographical society[c1918] [Source]

Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or birds of paradise and Ptilonorhynchidae, or bower-birds. London: H. Sotheran & Co., 1891-98. (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48735296) #nature #illustration #art

Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or birds of paradise and Ptilonorhynchidae, or bower-birds. London: H. Sotheran & Co., 1891-98. (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48735197) #nature #illustration #art

Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or birds of paradise and Ptilonorhynchidae, or bower-birds. London: H. Sotheran & Co., 1891-98. (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48735306) #nature #illustration #art

A clever bit of artistry in this manuscript, making it appear like a dog has gone through one side of the page and out the other - 15th century, Kraków, MNK 3025 I, pp. 469-470

Centuries before it became fashionable, Mike discovered the relaxing benefits of a weekly goat yoga session - 15th century, Tübingen, Universitätsbibliothek, Md 2, f. 39v

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the foxes, for today is their special day! To celebrate National Fox Day, here is an illustration of a fox from the book 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc. 📷 Reserve 590 BUF #NationalFoxDay #FoxDay #RareBooks

A pair of frolicking foxes for #NationalFoxDay 🦊 These foxes are from a richly illuminated 16th Century copy of the Persian version of Qazwini's ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharāʼib al-mawjūdāt (MS Nn.3.74) See it up close in the Cambridge Digital Library: https://loom.ly/9vanVC4

#NationalFoxDay Fox by Ian Hamilton Finlay

For #NationalFoxDay 🦊: #Fox - Head Bottle (aka Spout-and-bridge bottle with fox) Topará, South Coast Peru (Necropolis) Ceramic, slip H. 7 1/4 × W. 6 3/4 × D. 7 1/2 in. (18.4 × 17.1 × 19.1 cm) Metropolitan Museum of Art (63.232.49) #AncientArt #PeruvianArt #IndigenousArt

#BookRecommendation for #NationalFoxDay 🦊: Introducing the Medieval #Fox (Medieval Animals series) amzn.to/3t6rJGE #AmazonAssociates