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Tessie Curates a Feed @studiotessie.bsky.social · Dec 14
sketchbook pages about being okay and finding a home and snails which i just learned are not insects

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The arms of an octopus were used to mark specific parts of this page that were of importance or interest - 14th century, Bancroft Library, BANC MS UCB 085
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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🪱 Illustrations of the Linnaean genera of insects
London: W. Wood, 1821.

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Illustration from an 1821 entomology book depicting a centipede labeled "Scolopendra." The main subject is a detailed, colorized drawing of a segmented centipede with a reddish-brown body and multiple pairs of legs along its length. It has prominent antennae and a slightly curved posture. To the left, a magnified, segmented part of the appendage marked "a" is shown separately. The background is plain beige, with the title "SCOLopendra." printed at the top center and scientific name "S. coleoptrata." below the centipede. The image is simple and scientific, focusing on anatomical details.
November 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Iris field in Giverny - 1887
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110179
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
Goodnight.
🖼️ El árbol Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, 1929.
Red-brown barked tree seen from below looking up into its branches and canopy under a starry night sky, painting.
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Farm near Duivendrecht https://www.artic.edu/artworks/144467/
Though Piet Mondrian is best known for his nonrepresentational paintings, his basic vision was rooted in landscape. He was particularly inspired by the flat topography of his native Holland, a subject he returned to even after he had begun working in an abstract style after attending an exhibition of the Cubist paintings of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in 1911. Mondrian first sketched this farm around 1905. Nine of the twenty known related paintings and drawings of the farm, however, were created later, during World War I. Mondrian likely returned to the subject because his wartime patrons generally preferred his earlier naturalistic compositions to his recent experiments with Cubism. Gift of Dolly J. van der Hoop Schoenberg
November 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Resharing for #WorldWalrusDay
arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · Nov 24
Happy #WorldWalrusDay!
Egevadluq Ragee (Inuit, 1920-1983)
#Walruses at Play, 1964
Stonecut print, 45/50, 21 x 28.5 in
www.mutualart.com/Artwork/WALR...
#IndigenousArt #NativeAmericanArt #FirstNationsArt
monochrome print in landscape orientation, huddle of five black walruses against plain white background
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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🌴 The history of the Caribby-islands
London: Printed by J.M. for Thomas Dring and John Starkey ..., 1666.

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Historical illustration from 1666 showing detailed black-and-white engravings of seven Caribbean marine specimens: a musical shell, a burgau shell, a sea trumpet shell, a venus shell, a lambis shell, a casque shell, and two sea urchins labeled "sea egge" (one closed, one opened), along with a spiny sea star ("sea-starre"). Each specimen is finely shaded to highlight textures and shapes, accompanied by handwritten labels and page references. The image emphasizes the natural history and biodiversity of Caribbean seashells and marine life from a 17th-century scientific perspective.
November 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Book Cover of the Day:
QUEER FISH E.G. BOULENGER. Orange cover, black lettering, black decoration of fish in centre of cover.
November 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Watermill at Limetz - 1888
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10339
November 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
Morning.
Birds in town & village, by W.H. Hudson
Wren in foliage by tree, pink flower, illustration.
November 21, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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biodiversitypix.bsky.social
🌼 Curtis's botanical magazine..
London ; New York [etc.]: Academic Press [etc.].

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Illustration of a daisy plant from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, featuring multiple white daisies with yellow centers clustered on green stems. The flowers vary from fully open to partially closed buds with dark tips. Large, textured green leaves with visible veins surround the blooms. The image includes detailed botanical sketches of daisy flower parts, such as petals, stamens, and seed structures, arranged around the main illustration. The drawing highlights the intricate botanical features and growth stages of the daisy plant for scientific study.
November 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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🌲 How to know the wild flowers: .
New York: Scribner's, 1893..

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Illustration of a Pipsissewa plant (Chimaphila umbellata) from an 1893 book titled "How to Know the Wild Flowers." The plant features a single slender stem with a small cluster of five-petaled flowers at the top. Below, multiple elongated, lance-shaped leaves with serrated edges grow in a whorled pattern around the stem. The detailed botanical drawing highlights leaf texture and flower structure. The image is a black ink line drawing on a beige background, labeled "Plate XXVII" with the scientific and common names below. The illustration relates to pine habitats as Pipsissewa commonly grows in pine forests.
November 16, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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🌱 Recueil de divers oiseaux étrangers et peu communs
A Nuremberg: Chez les Héritiers de Seligmann, 1768-1776.

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Historical botanical illustration from 1768-1776 showing a small brown bird clinging to a twisting vine with elongated green-yellow leaves and several pink trumpet-shaped flowers. Below the bird, a large moth with spotted white wings and a blue-yellow striped body rests on one flower. The vine’s tendrils wrap loosely, creating an oval frame around the bird and moth. The illustration is labeled in old German and Latin, including the plant name "Convolvulus Caribienfis," a type of grass-like morning glory vine. The overall style is detailed and naturalistic, typical of 18th-century scientific illustrations.
November 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Composition (No. 1) Gray-Red https://www.artic.edu/artworks/65821/
The roots of 20th-century abstract art can be traced to the late 19th century, when artists began to move away from the direct representation of objects toward the communication of emotional states or moods. In doing so, the formal properties of art—such visual elements as line, color, and composition—assumed a primary role in its production. After World War I, many artists, including Piet Mondrian, believed that abstract art could contribute to a more harmonious society by communicating in a universal, visual language. In the wake of the war's destruction, artists associated with De Stijl (meaning, "the style") in the Netherlands recognized the need for a break with the past, as well as a new aesthetic language to correspond to their utopian vision of the world. In 1917 Mondrian joined the De Stijl movement and began to develop a purely visual language of verticals and horizontals, restricting his compositions to predominantly off-white grounds divided by black rectilinear lines that framed smaller blocks of primary colors. Gift of Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman
November 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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At Gallery Gugging, curated by juergen maurer – highly personal runs until Jan 30, 2026. Maurer’s works appear alongside Gugging artists and Michel Nedjar in a vivid exploration of individuality, technology and the art brut spirit.

Image: Ida Buchmann
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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🦴 Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificiosissimis expressio, per universam physices historiam: .
Amstelaedami: Apud J. Wetstenium, & Gul. Smith, & Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1734-1765..

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A historical illustration titled "Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri" (1734-1765) depicting nine detailed leaf skeletons arranged in a grid. Each leaf shows intricate, delicate vein structures with some leaves more translucent, highlighting their network of veins. They are labeled with figure numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. The page is framed with faint borders and includes title and tab numbers at the top. The illustration emphasizes botanical anatomy through finely rendered leaf skeletons, showcasing various leaf shapes and vein patterns.
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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little star ⭐
November 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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💦 Testacea Britannica, or, Natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: London: And sold by J. White, 1803.

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Illustration from "Testacea Britannica" (1803) showing twelve finely detailed, numbered sketches of various British shells. The shells vary in shape, including elongated spirals, conical forms, and rounded coils, representing marine and freshwater species. Each shell is delicately shaded to highlight texture and structure. The page has a pale, aged background typical of early 19th-century prints. This natural history image focuses on water-related shells found in Britain, documenting their diverse forms for scientific study.
November 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Sea Bird’s Island, William De Morgan.
A design for a dish titled "Sea Birds' Island" by William De Morgan. It is a circular, monochromatic drawing in reddish-brown tones. The design is divided into two main sections: Top half: Five birds are standing on a shoreline with a stylized sun rising or setting in the background. Bottom half: A large, stylized fish (possibly a whale) swims in the sea, surrounded by smaller fish. The water is depicted with a swirling pattern of waves. The design is noted to be a "dish design" and is "pricked for transfer.
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Techu-Anpu, 1983
https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5266
Techu-Anpu
November 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Today is also #WorldBaskingShark day! To celebrate these graceful oceanic grazers we have this illustration from volume 1 of 'A History of the Fishes of the British Isles' by Jonathan Couch, 1862 📖 BL.65/C
an illustration of a male basking shark with rocksa and sailing boats in the background
November 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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🦎 Histoire naturelle des oiseaux, des reptiles et des poissons
Tours: Ad Mame et cie, imprimeurs-libraires, 1841.

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Historical illustration depicting two bird species: the top shows two penguins standing on rocky terrain near the water with distant mountains in the background; the bottom features a single waterbird with a long beak and distinctive feather crest, standing on a rocky shore with cliffs behind. The drawing is detailed with fine lines capturing textures of feathers and landscape. Though labeled with reptile-related keywords, the image primarily represents birds from the 1841 natural history publication.
October 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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'Black Cat at Night' - Koho, ca. 1930s (detail).
#Caturday #shinhanga #JapaneseArt
A black cat with yellow eyes sits under a bush with large leaves.
October 4, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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'We stand among the fallen leaves
In our own autumn day--
And, tott'ring on with feeble steps,
Pursue our cheerless way.'
-Caroline Norton

🎨John Atkinson Grimshaw
#BookWormSat
Painting title: An Autumn Idyll. A figure walks on the pavement through a street in autumn. Bare trees, buildings, autumn leaves. Yellow sky colours.
October 18, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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🐚 Conchologia iconica, or, Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals
London: Reeve, Brothers, 1843-1878.

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Illustration from "Conchologia iconica" displaying nine small, detailed sea snail shells arranged on a plain, aged yellow background. Each shell is uniquely colored in shades of brown, gray, and reddish tones, with spiral and textured patterns clearly depicted. They are labeled with numbers (92–99) and sub-labels (96a, 96b, 98a, 98b) to indicate different species or views. The title "Cyclostoma Pl. XV." appears at the top right. The shells vary slightly in shape but share a coiled, conical form typical of molluscous animals, showcasing scientific accuracy and artistic detail of 19th-century natural history illustration.
October 18, 2025 at 6:23 AM