“Atlas scarab.” An epitome of the natural history of the insects of India. 1800. Frontispiece Friday.
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(Unknown). Kometenbuch (Comet Book). Domina Capillorum, Veru, Unnamed, Scutella, Rosa, Miles, Geben ou Tenacusum, Azome Austrement Dominis Aschone, Aurora, Argentium. 1587.
African Lycaenidae.
Illustrations taken from ‘Rhopalocera Exotica’ by Henry Grose Grose-Smith and W. F. Kirby. Published 1887 by Gurney & Jackson.
Biodiversity Heritage Library.
archive.org
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50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Planet Earth, as seen from orbit on the first day of the Gemini 10 mission, July 18, 1966. (NASA/ASU)
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ZICHY, Mihály
Coronation of Alexander II
1857
Watercolour, gouache and white on cardboard, 527 x 700 mm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
Mandala of Hevajra Buddhist Deity. Central Tibet. 1500s.
The Woman in the Waves - Gustave Courbet
GUÉRIN, Pierre-Narcisse
Dido and Aeneas
c. 1815
Oil on canvas, 292 x 390 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder - Hercules and the Hydra. Dertail. 1537
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