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Dr. Tuzson draws for Issue 24 of The Hungarian National Museum Natural History Booklet, 1901.

Természetrajzi Füzetek kiadja a Magyar nemzeti Muzeum. No. 24. 1901. The Hungarian National Museum Natural History Booklet No. 24, 1901,...

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Nature Obscurity

Tragically, only 2 drawings by the totally obscure Dutch botantical wallchart artist, D. van Laren are known to exist. Here they are.

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M. van Soest : Teacher & Botanical Wallchart Artist for an Industrial School for Female Youth in Holland during the 1880s.

Nature Obscurity

Amedeo Terzi, the Italian who drew over 37,000 parasitic insects and spent 3 months in a mosquito infested Italian town to prove a point.

The Italian illustrator and entomologist Amedeo John Engel Terzi (1872 -1956) specialised in Diptera. The true flies. In his lifetime he...

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They’ve been here for 310 million years and they gather on the full moon for their magical blue blood to be milked. In 1873, the French scientist, Milne-Edwards opened up the alien so we can have a good look inside.

Alien. There’s something alien about the Atlantic horseshoe crab, (also known as the American horseshoe crab). They’re not even proper...

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W. Fischer : Teacher & Botanical Wallchart Artist for an Industrial School for Female Youth in Holland during the 1880s.

Nature Obscurity

1877. Zoological wallcharts by Hinrich Nitsche, the German Zoologist who spotted a microscopic invertibrate’s anus and had a vemonous African snake named after him.

Hinrich Nitsche is famous for spotting a microscopic anus. The German Zoologist worked out that there were 2 types of...

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Richard Liebreich’s mid-19th century, Atlas der Ophthalmoscopie. You won’t believe your eyes.

In the mid-1800s, the inner workings of the human eye were as remote and undiscovered as the surface of the...

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1903’s Familiar Wild Birds by W. Swaysland. The illustrations of birds are rather ordinary, their eggs however, are quite the opposite.

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M. Ringt : Teacher & Botanical Wallchart Artist for an Industrial School for Female Youth in Holland during the 1880s.

Nature Obscurity

Zoology’s odd couple. The socialist radical & the sea cucumber fancier. The Casimir Cépède/Rémy Perrier student wallcharts.

The French Zoologists, Casimir Cépède (1882-1954) and Rémy Perrier (1861-1936) both recieved France’s ultimate accolade, the Legion d’Honneur and were eminent, high...

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The legend “E.T.” Compton (1849 –1921). The Quaker boy from N.E. London who taught art to a Princess, climbed over 300 humungous mountains all over the planet and painted sights few humans, even today, will ever see.

Renowned for his “brilliant mountaineering skill on ice and rock, his truly admirable perseverance, his inexhaustible patience in bearing hardships”,...

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Helene Schjerfbeck began as a precociously skilled, slightly melancholic late-19th-century academic realist. She finished as a painter whose sublime abstract images are an exquisite harmony of pure paint and cryptic description.

“I have to draw to the point of madness, just draw. Just work, work and think of nothing else”, said the brilliant Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. It did him no good, he was just another “degenerate” artist to the Nazis.

From hat shop girl to Dutch art icon. But who was the Girl in the Kimono? The opaque story of an 1890s working class teenager immortalised by George Hendrik Breitner.

Descendant of samurai and relentless entrepreneur, Ogawa Kazumasa opened Tokyo’s first photo studio, shot Japan’s art treasures, the 100 prettiest geisha in Tokyo and taught photography to the military. His legacy is these exquisite images of flowers.

L’Estampe Moderne; the 1890s Parisian Art Nouveau “best of” album feat. various international artists. 4 lithographs every month. Just 3₣r 50c an issue.

It’s easy to see how, in the mid 1800s, Paul Gustave Doré “hypnotized the widest public ever captured by a major illustrator”. Even Van Gogh was a fan, he copied Doré shortly before shooting himself.

In the 1890s the Dutch painter, George Hendrik Breitner took nude reference photos for his paintings. In the 1990s they were found.

Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach. 1880s free love messiah, naturist, pacifist, vegetarian, sun worshipper and unique symbolist painter.

Found photos : Three lost decades of Iowa Speedway recovered. With Merlin Benning, Lester “Red” Dralle. Claus Stricker, Don & Dick Feckers & Red Droste. 1950>1970.

The Art of Protest: Albert Hahn was righteous anger manifest. A graphic character assassin that even the mighty Germany Kaiser feared.

It’s 1914. and Orientalism meets Art Nouveau and the early stirrings of Art Deco in Emile-Allain Séguy’s “Samarkande: 20 Compositions en couleurs dans le Style oriental”.

The 1920s French Art Deco influencer who drew pure design inspiration from the natural world. Insectes (1929) by Émile-Allain Séguy.

The forgotten Finska Vyer birch bark album, by I.K Inha, 1892. Inside are raw natural landscape photographs of Finland. It won the 1st international photographic competion in Paris.

William Morris. Strawberry Thief . “You can picture my Father going out in the early morning and watching the rascally thrushes at work on the fruit beds…”

The Swiss artist, Ernst Kreidolf (1863-1956). A Princess helped him give up the life of a farmer to put his faith and future in the hands of the flower fairies. He lived magically ever after.

Painter & early street photographer. The astonishing early street photography that helped George Hendrik Breitner add social realism to his famous paintings of Amsterdam.

India mid-1800s : Dr John Murray, cholera specialist an photographer. He spent 40 years travelling with gear weighing 400 pounds and a servant. His ever so slightly psychedelic negatives made it all worth it.

Samarkand, early 1900s. The first ever colour photographs of the ancient Persian city by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, an unknown Russian who invented his own colour photography process.

It’s 1914. and Orientalism meets Art Nouveau and the early stirrings of Art Deco in Emile-Allain Séguy’s “Samarkande: 20 Compositions en couleurs dans le Style oriental”.

Around the world with the rare travel drawings by the American painter, Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900). Found in the archives of the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.

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Dr. Tuzson draws for Issue 24 of The Hungarian National Museum Natural History Booklet, 1901.

Tragically, only 2 drawings by the totally obscure Dutch botantical wallchart artist, D. van Laren are known to exist. Here they are.

M. van Soest : Teacher & Botanical Wallchart Artist for an Industrial School for Female Youth in Holland during the 1880s.

Amedeo Terzi, the Italian who drew over 37,000 parasitic insects and spent 3 months in a mosquito infested Italian town to prove a point.

They’ve been here for 310 million years and they gather on the full moon for their magical blue blood to be milked. In 1873, the French scientist, Milne-Edwards opened up the alien so we can have a good look inside.

W. Fischer : Teacher & Botanical Wallchart Artist for an Industrial School for Female Youth in Holland during the 1880s.

1877. Zoological wallcharts by Hinrich Nitsche, the German Zoologist who spotted a microscopic invertibrate’s anus and had a vemonous African snake named after him.

Richard Liebreich’s mid-19th century, Atlas der Ophthalmoscopie. You won’t believe your eyes.

1903’s Familiar Wild Birds by W. Swaysland. The illustrations of birds are rather ordinary, their eggs however, are quite the opposite.

M. Ringt : Teacher & Botanical Wallchart Artist for an Industrial School for Female Youth in Holland during the 1880s.

Zoology’s odd couple. The socialist radical & the sea cucumber fancier. The Casimir Cépède/Rémy Perrier student wallcharts.

The legend “E.T.” Compton (1849 –1921). The Quaker boy from N.E. London who taught art to a Princess, climbed over 300 humungous mountains all over the planet and painted sights few humans, even today, will ever see.