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Tag Archives: Birds
1902: Orchid and Hummingbird
Martin Johnson Heade: Orchid and Hummingbird near a Mountain Waterfall (1902) The orchid pictured is Cattleya labiata (known also as the Crimson Cattleya or Ruby-lipped Cattleya), which grows in the states of Pernambuco and Alagoas in northeastern Brazil. The plant … Continue reading
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Tagged 1900's, 20th Century, Animals, Art, Birds, Brazil, Flowers, Martin Johnson Heade, Painting, USA
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1918: Mysterious Island
N. C. Wyeth: Endpapers for a 1918 edition of Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island (1874). The book, a sequel to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, recounts the adventures of five Union soldiers who escape their Confederate captors in a hot … Continue reading
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Tagged 1870's, 1910's, 19th Century, 20th Century, African-Americans, American Civil War, Animals, Art, Birds, Books, France, Illustration, Jules Verne, N. C. Wyeth, Science Fiction, The Ocean, USA
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1864: Bird and Weeds
Léon Bonvin: Landscape with Bird and Weeds (1864)
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Tagged 1860's, 19th Century, Animals, Art, Birds, France, Landscapes, Léon Bonvin, Painting, Weeds
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1850: The Last Hoopoe Starling
FREGILUPUS VARIA As long ago as 1674 a note about the “Huppe” exists, by “Le Sieur D.B.,” i.e., Dubois. He says, when describing the birds of Réunion (translated): “Hoopoes or ‘Callendres,’ having a white tuft on the head, the rest … Continue reading
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Tagged 1850's, 1900's, 19th Century, 20th Century, Animals, Birds, Books, Drawing, Environment, France, Great Britain, Lionel Walter Rothschild
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1918: It Is Well that No Protection Be Afforded the Bird
The Common Crow (corvus brachyrhynchos); frontispiece of The Crow and Its Relation to Man (E. R. Kalmbach, 1918). When feeding on injurious insects, crustaceans, rodents, and carrion, and when dispersing seeds of beneficial plants, the crow is working largely for … Continue reading
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Tagged 1910's, 20th Century, Animals, Birds, Books, Crows, Drawing, E. R. Kalmbach, USA
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1960’s: Totem
Chief Henry Speck: Totem: Eagle (1960’s) (source)
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Tagged 1960's, 20th Century, Animals, Art, Birds, Canada, Chief Henry Speck, Eagles, Native Americans, Painting
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1904: Art Forms
Plates from Ernst Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur (1904): See more here.
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Tagged 1900's, 20th Century, Animals, Biology, Birds, Books, Ernst Haeckel, Frogs, Germany, Jellyfish, Nature, Printmaking, Science
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2012: The Birds
stuntkid: The Birds (2012) (source)
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Tagged 20th Century, 21st Century, Alfred Hitchcock, Animals, Birds, Digital Art, Film, stuntkid
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2014: State of the Union
John Brosio: State of the Union 2 (2014) (source)
1866: Special Providence
Preserved specimen of Lonchura pallida pallida [pale-headed munia] from the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands (1866). The pale-headed munia is a species of estrildid finch found in Indonesia. (source)
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