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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.

Once upon a time there was a boy with a really long name. Konrad Ernst Theophil Kreidolf (known as Ernst)...

William Sharp’s sumptuous 1854 illustrations of The Great Water Lily of America, the “vegetable wonder” that owes it’s life to scarab beetles, has 10 foot wide leaves and flowers that smell of fruit.

The Victoria Regia; or the Great Water Lily of America, a gigantic water lily, was first discovered along the Amazon...

Art & Design Nature

Æolididae e famiglie affini del porto di Genova & Bologna. Salvatore Trinchese, the man who fell in love with a certain sea slug.

Æolididae are a family of sea slugs, marine gastropod molluscs without shells. Most of them feed on sea anemones and...

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...

The natural world, ancient Egypt, Meso-America and Japan. The Art Deco designer, Emile-Allain Séguy really mixed it all up in his series, “Prismes: 40 Planches de Dessins et Coloris Nouveaux” (1931).

Prismes: 40 Planches de Dessins et Coloris Nouveaux (Prisms: 40 Plates of Designs and New Colors), was chock full of...

The incredible, psychedelic tropical fish fantasy of Louis Renard & Samuel Fallours : 1719’s Natural history of the rarest curiosities of the Indian Sea.

Histoire naturelle des plus rares curiositez de la mer des Indes (1719), is one of the very earliest colour publications...

Colour plates from 1916’s “The main poisonous snakes of the Dutch East Indies by Pieter Antonie Ouwens : With a treatise on the phenomena and on the treatment of poisonous snakebite by Dr. G.W. Kiewait the Younger”.

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

Emile-Allain Séguy saw in butterflies “un monde somptueux de formes et de couleurs” (a world of sumptuous forms and colors) and he brought that world to vivid life in Papillons (1925).

Emile-Allain Séguy described the illustrations in one of his best-known collections, Papillons (1925), as “un monde somptueux de formes et de...

AIRSCAPES of CALIFORNIA. Otherworldly 1920s aerial photography by U.S. government pilots.

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,...

Nature Obscurity

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