Early 20th century biological wall chart of jellyfish titled ‘Méduses Acalèphes’ from a series created by French biologists Rémy Perrier and Casimir Cépède, drawn by P. Méry and edited by Jean Montaudon. Published by F. Champenois in Paris. UWM Special Collections. #WorldJellyfishDay #animalart

#WorldJellyfishDay ✅ #MosaicMonday ✅ Never let it be said that we don't give The People what they want.

"The Heron" - by NC Wyeth (1936⧸1937) - oil on canvas, 48⅛ × 30 in. at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum - Wausau, Wisconsin #BirdOfTheDay #Heron

For #WorldJellyfishDay: a sampling of Charles-Alexandre Lesueur's #sciart from his & François Péron's work conducted on the Baudin Expedition to Australia 1800-1804, which more than quadrupled the # of documented #jellyfish species. Muséum du Havre archives: museum-lehavre.fr/en/node/6

From the blog: ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for #WorldJellyfishDay : Ernst Haeckel’s Medusae arthistoryanimalia.com/2023/11/03/a...

Resharing for #WorldJellyfishDay 🪼

Resharing for #WorldJellyfishDay 🪼

Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or birds of paradise and Ptilonorhynchidae, or bower-birds. London: H. Sotheran & Co., 1891-98. (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48735378) #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/48735310) #nature #illustration #art

The Bugs & Beasties Banquet - 15th century, Kraków, MNK 3025 I, p. 411

Tuesday’s ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that has never seen one’ - 14th century, British Library, Sloane MS 4016, f. 50r

Time for another ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 12th century, Cambridge, University Library, MS Ii.4.26, f. 7v

Lot 1041. A blue and white 'Buddhist lions' basin, Wanli six-character mark in underglaze blue in a line and of the period (1573-1619); 35.1 cm diam. Price realised HKD 279,400 (Estimate HKD 200,000 – HKD 300,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2025 www.alaintruong.com/2025/11/a-bl...

Alfred Mayor's "Medusae of the world" (1910) attempted to describe all known forms from all parts of the world. The #SciArt is based on drawings, from life, by William K. Brooks and Louis Murbach. View it in #BHLib: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography... #WorldJellyfishDay #ILoveBHL

“Girl Holding a Rabbit” by William Oliver (British) - Oil on canvas / c. 1860–1890 - Aberystwyth University School of Art Museum and Galleries (Aberystwyth, Wales) #WomenInArt #art #artText #artwork #VictorianArt #BritishArt #19thCenturyArt #Portrait #BlueskyArt #Rabbit #Aberystwyth #WilliamOliver

“Portrait of Rebecca Orne” by Joseph Badger (American) – Oil on canvas / 1757 – Worcester Art Museum (Massachusetts) #WomenInArt #art #artText #artwork #ColonialArt #AmericanArt #18thCenturyArt #WorcesterArtMuseum #Portraiture #NewEnglandHistory #ArtHistory #BlueskyArt #GirlsInArt #AmericanArtist

Roman glass cups with colourful enamel decoration of animals from the Roman arena. AD 200s. Found in richly-furnished graves in Denmark. National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen. 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

For a belated #NationalBisonDay 🦬 : Kay Walkingstick (Member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and Anglo, b. 1935) #Buffalo Country, 2018 Oil on panel On display at Zimmerli Art Museum “Indigenous Identities: Here, Now & Always” exhibition #IndigenousArt #NativeAmericanArt #ContemporaryArt

Resharing for a belated #NationalBisonDay 🦬

Resharing for a belated #NationalBisonDay 🦬

Beetle illustrations from ‘Abbildungen Zu Oken’s Allgemeiner Naturgeschichte Für Alle Stände’ by Lorenz Oken. Stuttgart: Hoffmann, 1843. University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Special Collections. #naturalhistory#insectart #insectillustration #beetles #beetleart #beetleillustration #sciart

Chromolithograph and wood engravings of bats from the 1882-84 edition of the German natural history series ‘Brehms Thierleben.’ #chromolithograph #bats #naturalhistory #naturalhistoryillustration #scientificillustration #batart #sciart

Brown rat from ‘The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America,’ originally issued in 30 parts from 1845-1848. Drawn from nature by John James Audubon and his son John Woodhouse Audubon. The plates were printed and colored by J. T. Bowen of Philadelphia. Milwaukee Public Library Rare Books Collection.

Something lovely for the weekend! Magical amber animals from the Mesolithic. Carved between 10,000-7,000 years ago. Amber can generate static electricity⚡️ For their ancient owners, these small animals could give off sparks in the dark and make hair stand on end, as if by magic✨ 📷 me #Archaeology

🦘 The mammals of Australia.. London, Printed by Taylor and Francis, pub. by the author, 1863.. [Source]

🦘 [A monograph of the Macropodidæ, or family of kangaroos].. London: The Author, 1841-1842. [Source]

For #WorldNumbatDay : Wendy Binks (Australia) Wide World, 2015 Acrylic on canvas, 46 x 56 x 4cm www.numbat.org.au/news/2015/5/... #ContemporaryArt #WomenArtists #Marsupials #Numbats

ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for #WorldNumbatDay: Europe’s first published #numbat images arthistoryanimalia.com/2023/11/04/a...

Resharing for #WorldNumbatDay

Charles-Louis-Marie Houdard (France, 1855-1931) Invitation to the Dinner for Friends of Japanese Art, 1911 Color woodcut On display at Zimmerli Art Museum, Ruthers University (1991.0384) #Japonisme #grasshoppers

Charles Caryl Coleman (USA, 1840-1928) Night #Owl, 1879 Oil on canvas On display at Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University (1988.0794) #BirdsInArt #Japonisme

#Caturday: Adolphe Willette (France, 1857-1926) Green Virgin, c. 1881 Oil on canvas On display at Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University (2001.0371) #CatsInArt

Embroidery Artist Carefully Stitches Over 150 Colorful #Bird Species on Dry Leaves mymodernmet.com/leveza-art-e... via @mymodernmet.bsky.social #BirdsInArt #ContemporaryArt

For #WorldLemurDay : “The Maucauco” Plate 23 from Charles Catton the Younger (1756-1819) _Animals drawn from nature and engraved in aqua-tinta_ (London, 1788) 🆔 Ring-Tailed Lemur (Lemur catta) 🚨 IUCN Red List: ENDANGERED commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ch...

#WorldLemurDay : The Craft Art Winner in the Lemur Conservation Foundation's World Lemur Festival Juried Art Contest is “A diverse taxon” by Amrei Pfaff of Göttingen, Germany. “On 30 squares, 27 different species from all 15 genera of #lemur are represented.” www.lemurreserve.org/world-lemur-...

Resharing for #WorldLemurDay

Resharing for #WorldLemurDay

Resharing for #WorldLemurDay

@wittspat.bsky.social that is one hip looking hedgehog 😂

Gabriel Argy-Rousseau (France, 1885-1953) “Poissons dans les vagues” (" #Fish in the Waves") Pâte de verre glass vase, 1925 6" H, 3.25" Dia. www.macklowegallery.com/products/gab... #ArtDeco

For a belated #SeaSlugDay: a sampling of Ito Kumataro's field illustrations for Paul Bartsch's #nudibranch study, from _Notes and description of specimens collected on the Philippine Expedition of the Steamer Albatross, circa 1908_. See full field book on BHL: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/225346

Resharing for a belated #SeaSlugDay

It's #SeaSlugDay! To celebrate we have selected these beautiful illustrations from 'A Monograph of the British Nudibranchiate Mollusca' volume 1, published by @raysocietybooks.bsky.social. You can find two copies in the rare books room @thembauk.bsky.social 📖 BL.48/A

Giovanna Garzoni (Ascoli Piceno 1600 – Rome 1670), Lapdog with Biscotti and a Chinese Cup, c. 1648. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina)

Soon to be flying near you all on #Halloween ! 🦇 Bodleian Library Exeter College MS 47; The Psalter of Humphrey de Bohun; 1360 CE–1400 CE; England; f.21v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Now back home from a wonderful 6 days in Greece (Athens, then a 1300-km coach tour including Epidaurus, Olympia, Mycenae, Delphi & the hilltop monasteries of Meteora). This #owl is in the Acropolis Museum: made in the 4th century BC and found in the Odeion of Pericles at the SE foot of the Acropolis

Boucheron. An important Art Nouveau enamel, sapphire and diamond 'Juno' pendant, France, circa 1900. Sold for US$508,500 at New York, 12 June 2025, lot 361. © Bonhams.

Maple Tree and Small Birds, Colorful Realm, by Ito Jakuchu, ca. 1765-1766

🐦 Recueil de divers oiseaux étrangers et peu communs A Nuremberg: Chez les Héritiers de Seligmann, 1768-1776. [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/48735394) #nature #illustration #art