A paper butterfly found among the papers and personal effects of Walt Whitman. Probably 1850-1860.
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Utamaro's Insect Book
Ehon mushi erami (Picture Book of Selected Insects), 画本虫撰. Japanese, Edo period, 1788
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Utamaro's Insect Book
Ehon mushi erami (Picture Book of Selected Insects), 画本虫撰. Japanese, Edo period, 1788
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American Spiders and their Spinningwork
by Henry C. McCook.
Published 1889
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Frog by Japanese artist Matsumoto Hoji, from ‘Meika Gafu’ (1814)
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Comingio Merculiano (Naples, 1859 - 1935) Jellyfish, 1889. Chromolithograph, Liepzig University
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Philip Henry Gosse (1810–1888), from 'A naturalist’s rambles on the Devonshire Coast' published 1853
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Goose Barnacles. Illustration from 'The Transformations (or Metamorphoses) of Insects' by P. Martin Duncan, published 1870
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Ernst Haeckel, Ascidiae, from ' Kunstformen der Natur', ("Artforms of Nature" ), 1904
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Marine life mosaic from the House of L. Aelius Magnus, Pompeii
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Images from the First Colour Publication on Fish (1754)
publicdomainreview.org/collections/im
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Abu Yahya Zakariya’ ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini; Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing, ca. 1203-1283 CE.
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