The Fairy Art of Amelia Jane Murray – Revisited: regency-explorer.net/fairy-art/

I am fond of the colourful Albizia julibrissin. In Japan its common name is nemurinoki which means"sleeping tree". This is because the tree slowly closes the leaves during the night.

Endlos.

Summer Night William Morris cotton print design (source: www.pinterest.de/pin/20589901...)

Just a little while ago while out watering. Happy Sunday everyone! #ButterflyWeek 🌼🦋

Love this! Fat Sparrow netsuke from the Walters Art Museum on Instagram

for a right royal summer day out: straw hat of Queen Caroline of Bavaria, ca. 1840

A queen and her hairstyles (1806 - 1825): Queen Caroline of Bavaria (all pieces on display at Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in Munich)

Small Tortoiseshell. #ButterflyWeek

A Marbled White butterfly feeding on clover. #ButterflyWeek

#butterflyweek we saw lots of lovely butterflies on the Isle of Iona last week. Including male and female common blue. #iona #commonblue #isleofiona

Red Admiral #ButterflyWeek

Celebrating the final day of #ButterflyWeek with a white peacock #butterfly found on a birding trip earlier this year. #Nature #Wildlife #Butterflies #Insects #Photography

David Hockney ©️

Red roses for #StainedGlassSunday (made around 1350)

Interior design inspirations from about 1510 #ceilingsOnSunday #chandelierSunday (Originally located in a Bavarian town hall, now on display at Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in Munich)

Schöner wohnen #lüsterliebe

A black swallowtail coming in for a landing for #ButterflyWeek #Photography #Butterflies #Flowers #BloomScrolling

Speckled wood in Ely yesterday. #ButterflyWeek

'Alte oder besondere Bäume' #FotoVorschlag "That Wanaka Tree" in Neuseeland

#ceilingsonSunday Gunnersbury House

The dining-room at Attingham Park (NT) in Shropshire #ceilingsonsunday

#StainedGlassSunday 🪟 Gorgeous reflection of the stained glass on the tomb of Bishop Thomas Hatfield (d.1381) 🌞 📍Durham Cathedral #Durham #History

The Four Seasons - William Morris. Cragside NT. #StainedglassSunday

#CeilingsOnSunday Chiesa di San Francesco, Lucca #aofoto

Shine like it is #ChandelierSunday 🙃

くじゅう花公園

'The Hall, Argyll House – A Summer Day', Chelsea (1925) by Sir John Lavery (Private collection)

Wishing you all a peaceful night with our friend the owl…can you spot our friend the fox? Sweet dreams, everyone ♥️ (art Jo Grundy)

fairy contemplation

a #butterfly resting on a leaf for #ButterflyWeek #insects #bugs

IT'S THE CAT BUS!!!!!!

Extravagant hairstyle: la Frégate la Junon French ca. 1779

Hairstyle ideas for hot summer days inspired by Classical antiquity

the poor fish at the bottom seems to have a bad day

There is something decidedly modern about this detail of a painted mummy cloth from around 100 BC - 100 AD

im Lavendelfeld #ButterflyWeek #GreenSat #ColorADay #SchönesGegenDoofes #Schmetterling #Nature #Photography #ECK

Gulf fritillary or passion butterfly from south Texas #ButterflyWeek

A #Gulffritillary for #ButterflyWeek is resting on the #flower of a pink #Pintas #bloomscrolling #Backyard #butterfly #BlueSkyArtShow #growing #ColorADay #GreenSat #nature #outdoors #ECK #photography 🦋🩷💚

A post for #ButterflyWeek This is a Mexican Blue Wing. I found out they like to feed off tree sap #Butterfly #Butterfliles #Insects #Photography #Nature

A post for #ButterflyWeek This Julia Heliconia is the prettiest butterfly I've ever seen #Butterfly #Butterfliles #Insects #Photography #Nature #ECK

An Appalachian Brown butterfly on a leaf, showing those cool eye spots. #ButterflyWeek #nature #photography #naturephotography #ECK #Wildlife #insects

Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Anne Pitt as Hebe, 1792 Shows the English noblewoman. She was part of the extended Pitt clan, a force in British politics in the 18thC. She married Wm Grenville; was Baroness Grenville when he held office as PM as leader of the Ministry of All the Talents, 1806-1807.

Maria Sibylla Merian’s early 18thc natural history illustrations, she was a major contributor to #entomology – particularly with her research on the metamorphosis of butterflies

Here it is, thanks to @willjennings.bsky.social #18thc collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O87198/...

I'm very excited to announce the launch of the #18thC Ecologies Network! Co-convened by myself & @calsutherland.bsky.social at @cecs-york.bsky.social , ECEN is a hub for researchers interested in the many diverse ecologies of the period 🌱 Find out more: hzj520.wixsite.com/eighteenth-c...