this will be good news for you,
the world’s largest open access digital archive dedicated to
life on Earth, the Biodiversity Heritage Library is comprised of animal
sketches, historical diagrams, botanical studies, and various scientific
research collected from hundreds of thousands of journals and libraries around
the globe, the site boasts a collection of more than 55 million pages of
literature, some of which dates back to the 15th century. At least 150,000
illustrations are available for free download in high-resolution files, above from Horticultural Belgium,
Among the collections is a digital copy of Joseph
Wolf’s The Zoological
Sketches, two volumes containing about 100 lithographs depicting
wild animals housed in London’s Regent’s Park. Wolf originally sketched and
painted the vignettes in the mid-19th century. Other diverse works range
from a watercolor project detailing flowers indigenous to
the Hawaiian islands, to a guide for do-it-yourself taxidermy compleate with
illustrated instructions published in 1833, above from Selected articulate animals
also from The naturalist’s miscellany, or Coloured figures of natural objects
from Brasilische Pilzblumen and so many more! absolutely fascinating, well it is is for me!
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