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The Echinodermata of New Zealand’s Te Papa Tongarewa.

Digital imagery created using Echinodermata specimens collected by scientists on the Australian...

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The fruits of Bianchetti’s Necropolis. 1890.

One day in September 1890, in Ornavasso, a small Italian village in the Piedmont...

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Art & Design History

“Illustrations of The Nests and Eggs of the Birds of Ohio”. Inspect the real estate market for birds in 1886.

Poor, wide eyed Genevieve Jones of Circleville, Ohio. She was never really...

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Nature

A menagerie of 19th & early 20th century photographs from the Archives of Amsterdam’s Royal Zoological Society Natura Artis Magistra.

Nature

‘Say the name, Lindauer, and every Māori chief will nod his head…When you attend a funeral and visit the house of a chief, what do you see above the displayed corpse? You will see a painting, which is the true likeness of the chief. And who was the creator of this work? If you look at the corner of the painting, you will recognize the artist’s signature: Bohuslav Lindauer”. Josef Kořenský, globetrotting writer, 1905.

Gottfried Lindauer (1839-1926), was amongst the most prolific and best-known painter of...

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Art & Design Travel

John McHale.

Art & Design

A selection of illustrations from Antiquities of the Russian State (1830) by Fedor Grigoryevich Solntsev (1801 – 1892).

Fedor Grigoryevich Solntsev was a Russian painter and historian of art who...

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Art & Design History

Viktor Vasnetsov.

Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov (May 15, 1848, Lopyal, Vyatka Governorate – July 23,...

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Art & Design

Jeptha Homer Wade.

Obscurity

Rough and smooth simultaneously. The broad, natural and spontaneous brush strokes of the underloved English female nude specialist Allan Douglas Davidson (1873–1932).

Allan Douglas Davidson was born in London on 14 May 1873. He was...

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Art & Design

TO DO The truly epic revolutionary Russian Empire reportage paintings of Ilya Repin (1844-1930).

Art & Design

Soul theft portraiture by Gerald Leslie Brockhurst.

Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (Oct. 31, 1890 – May 4, 1978) was an...

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Art & Design

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.

The Echinodermata of New Zealand’s Te Papa Tongarewa.

The fruits of Bianchetti’s Necropolis. 1890.

“Illustrations of The Nests and Eggs of the Birds of Ohio”. Inspect the real estate market for birds in 1886.

A menagerie of 19th & early 20th century photographs from the Archives of Amsterdam’s Royal Zoological Society Natura Artis Magistra.

John McHale.

A selection of illustrations from Antiquities of the Russian State (1830) by Fedor Grigoryevich Solntsev (1801 – 1892).

Viktor Vasnetsov.

Jeptha Homer Wade.

Rough and smooth simultaneously. The broad, natural and spontaneous brush strokes of the underloved English female nude specialist Allan Douglas Davidson (1873–1932).

TO DO The truly epic revolutionary Russian Empire reportage paintings of Ilya Repin (1844-1930).

Soul theft portraiture by Gerald Leslie Brockhurst.