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Scientific Illustration

Long before X-rays were X-rays and daguerreotypes were de rigueur, academia had drawings. Simple, line-dominated dissections of fauna and flora; art meant more for learning than decoration. I could pore over every minute detail for hours...

Death’s Head Sphinx Moth

From: ‘A Monograph of Oriental Cicadidæ’ By W.L. Distant

Drawing of a retinal neuron by Ramón y Cajal

Sequoia sempervirens
From ‘Hooker’s Icones Plantarum’ vol. 4: t. 379 (1841)

From Text Book of Mycology and Plant Pathology,  John W. Harshberger

olio-ataxia: Phytological History 1673 Nehemiah Grew

Pelagia Cyanella, William Keith Brooks, 1910

Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life. Catherine C. Hopley, 1882.

‘Anatomia del corpo humano’ - Rome, 1559
Juan Valverde d'Amusco

Snake Skeleton, A. Duméril, 1834

Metacrinus Cingulatus
From the 'Report of the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1873-76)

Skeleton in Giovard Bidloo’s Ontleding des menschelyken lichaams
 (Gerard de Lairesse)

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Petrol Blue

Talking of colors, this is another firm favorite. Moody, transforming and ever-changing. Currently the shade in our guest bathroom (Homburg Gray), it will definitely be designated to a room of more importance in a future house...

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Halloween Baby

is what I am. Quite a lot to compete with, living in America. But always a perfect excuse for the multitude of parties being thrown left, right and center...

Loved this shoot photographed by Ruven Afanador. And as for those anatomical posters...

First images are of Sedlec Ossuary in Kutna Hora from PseudoRandom's Flickersite