Adventures of the Blackgang

mudwerks:

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The Sea Turtle (1867)

These beautiful watercolours come from the Austrian painter Aloys Zötl’s Bestiarium, a series of exquisite paintings of various animals undertaken from 1831 through until his death in 1887. He was relatively unknown until, decades after his death, his work was “re-discovered” by surrealist André Breton who was taken by the surrealist aesthetic he saw present in the images – as he writes: “Lacking any biographical details about the artist, one can only indulge one’s fantasies in imagining the reasons which might have induced this workman from Upper Austria, a dyer by profession, to undertake so zealously between 1832 and 1887 the elaboration of the most sumptuous bestiary ever seen.” 

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moewie:

n44_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

moewie:

Richard Parkes Bonnington - La Ferte [c.1825] by Gandalf’s Gallery on Flickr.

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Leonardo da Vinci, Studies of Crabs, Ink on paper. Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany.

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1. Chætodon vinctus
2. Chætodon strigangulus
3. Chætodon vittatus

–The zoology of Captain Beechey’s voyage to the Pacific and Behring’s Straits; performed in His Majesty’s ship Blossom

(Illustrated with upwards of fifty finely coloured plates by G. B. Sowerby. Pub. under the authority of the lords commissioners of the Admiralty…1825-1828)

Shark!

frenchtwist:

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hippocampus family walk..

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mudwerks:

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‘Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux de Paradis et des Rolliers, Suivie de celle des Toucans et des Barbus’ — François Levaillant ; Jacques Barraband ; Perée, Jacques Louis ; Grémillier ; Bouquet, Louis, Paris : Denné le jeune / Perlet, 1806.

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mudwerks:

Nephtyidae polychaetes found off the coast of Palmer Peninsula, Antarctic, c. 1962 (by Smithsonian Institution)

Summary: SIA RU007231, Box 139, Folder “Palmer Peninsula Survey, 1962-1963”. Taken during underwater specimen collecting during Waldo Schmitt’s work on the Palmer Peninsula, 1962-1963.

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mudwerks:

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“In case of a continuous surf islands are surrounded with a wide band of sea foam saturated with green algae that are so loved by the birds.”

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mudwerks:

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Physician, polymath, traveller, artist and naturalist, Pierre Belon (1517- 1564), was most famously a founding protagonist for the phenomenon of homology in comparative anatomy. He obtained his medical degree at the University of Paris and, under the patronage of King Francis I, Belon was sent on diplomatic missions abroad which allowed him to study the wildlife of the eastern Mediterranean.

Belon was regarded as a great savant of the 16th century and he is one of the initiators of modern natural history. The appearance in 1553 of Belon’s work on fish, molluscs and aquatic mammals - ‘De Aquatilibus’ - constituted the greatest single advance in the scientific study and classification of fish since Aristotle. It was a standard ichthyology text well into the 17th century, before it was superseded.

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[skates…]

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pieserota:

Cape of Good Hope

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moewie:

untitled on Flickr.

comicallyvintage:

Today in Comically Vintage fun facts corner: SHARK!  

(don’t say we never teach you anything…)

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