Lithobates pipiens formerly Rana pipiens, commonly known as the northern leopard frog. Lithograph from John Edwards Holbrook’s “North American Herpetology; or, A Description of the Reptiles Inhabiting the United States” published in Philadelphia by J. Dobson, 1842. UW-Madison Special Collections.

Grasshopper by Karl Bodmer from 'Nature at Home' by Theophile Gautier. London: Bradbury, 1883. Excerpt of a poem by John Keats: "On the Grasshopper and Cricket.” #JohnKeats #Grasshopper #InsectArt

Amphibian illustrations from ‘Abbildungen zu Oken’s Allgemeiner Naturgeschichte für alle Stände’ by Lorenz Oken. Stuttgart: Hoffmann, 1843. University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Special Collections. #naturalhistory #Amphibians #Salamanders #animalart

Amanita rubescens (the blushing amanita). ‘Les champignons comestibles et les espèces vénéneuses avec lesquelles ils pourrait être confondus’ by Fritz Leuba. Neuchatel: Delachaux & Niestlé, [1906]. University of Chicago, Crerar Library. #chromolithograph #naturalhistory #mushroomart #mycology

Tarsier by Jean Baptiste Audebert. Stipple engraving inked à la poupée with hand coloring. ‘Histoire Naturelle des Singes et des Makis.’ Paris: Desray, 1800. University of Chicago Special Collections. #naturalhistory #Tarsier #AnimalArt

Chromolithograph from ‘Reports on Observations of the Total Eclipse of the Sun, August 7, 1869, conducted under the direction of Commodore B. F. Sands, U.S. N., Washington, 1870. #Solareclipse #naturalhistory #naturalhistoryillustration #scientificillustration #chromolithograph

Flowers from ‘Bilder zum Anschauungs-Unterricht für die Jugend: Bestehend in vaterländ. Gegenständen, nach der Natur u. den besten Originalen.’ Esslingen: J .F. Schreiber’s lithographischer Anstalt, 1835. University of Wisconsin-Madison Special Collections. #naturalhistory #botanicalart #flowers

Insects arranged by color from “Betrachtungen über die Farbenpracht der Insekten” by Carl Brunner von Wattenwyl. Published by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, 1897. #naturalhistory #chromolithography #insectart #sciart

Black Prince grapes from William Hooker’s ‘Pomona Londinensis: Containing Colored Engravings of the Most Esteemed Fruits Cultivated in the British Gardens,’ Vol. I. London, 1818. UW-Madison Special Collections. #botanicalart #scientificillustration #fruitart

My first article was published in the Archives of Natural History! It is about The Naturalist’s Library, a popular forty-volume book series published in Edinburgh from 1833-1843 by William Home Lizars and Sir William Jardine. @sochistnathist.bsky.social

‘Les fleurs animées’ or ‘The Flowers Personified,’ illustrated by French caricaturist J. J. Grandville (pseudonym of Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, 1803-1847). The book was first published in 1847, but this is a later 1867 edition published in Paris by Garnier Frères. #botanicalillustration #rarebooks

Toco toucan by Jacques Barraband for ‘Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celle des toucans et des barbus’ by François Levaillant. Paris: Chez Denné le jeune, 1806. University of Chicago Special Collections. #JacquesBarraband #sciart #Tocotoucan #naturalhistory

Sharks from 'A History of the Fishes of the British Islands' by Jonathan Couch. London : Groombridge and Sons, 1867-1868. #JonathanCouch #NaturalHistory #FishArt #Sharks #SharkWeek

Book cover of ‘The Breeds of Live Stock, and the Principles of Heredity’ by J. H. Sanders. Chicago : J.H. Sanders Pub. Co., 1887. #PublishersBinding #NaturalHistory #BookCover

Wood engravings of animals from ‘The Breeds of Live Stock, and the Principles of Heredity’ by J. H. Sanders. Chicago : J.H. Sanders Pub. Co., 1887. #AnimalArt #NaturalHistory #WoodEngraving #AnimalIllustration

Publishers’ binding of ‘The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Greenhouse Plants’ by Jane Loudon. Published in London by William S. Orr & Co., 1849. UW-Madison Special Collections @uwmadspec. #JaneLoudon #hernaturalhistory #botanicalart #publishersbinding

Botanical illustrations from ‘The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Greenhouse Plants’ by Jane Loudon. Published in London by William S. Orr & Co., 1849. UW-Madison Special Collections @uwmadspec. #JaneLoudon #hernaturalhistory #botanicalart #flowers

Butterflies and moths from ‘American card album’ manufactured by L. Prang & Co. Boston, Mass. patented April 5th, 1864. I saw this beautiful album at Boston Athenæum. #naturalhistory #PrangCompany #butterflyart #insectart

Raccoon from 'Travels into North America; containing its natural history…' by the Finnish-Swedish botanist and explorer Peter Kalm, and translated into English by John Reinhold Forster. London, printed for T. Lowndes, 1772. #Jimothy #animalart #naturalhistory #sciart

Beetles from French artist E. A. Séguy’s “Insectes” portfolio of pochoir prints, published in 1929. Pochoir is a labor intensive process where each color is applied through a stencil. Séguy’s prints require many different layers. #EASéguy #pochoir #naturalhistory #scienceart #insectart

Tourmaline from 'Gems and Precious Stones of North America' by George Frederick Kunz, published by The Scientific Publishing Company of New York, 1892. #naturalhistory #scienceart #mineralart #Tourmaline #chromolithography

European green woodpecker (Picus viridis) by Ambrosius Gabler from ‘Naturgeschichte der Vögel Deutschlands in getreuen Abbildungen und Beschreibungen’ by Johann Wolf. Nürnberg: Frauenholz, 1805. University of Chicago. #naturalhistory #birdart #Europeangreenwoodpecker #Picusviridis

Canna indica from Robert Thornton’s “Temple of Flora” in his book “A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus.” Published in London in 1807. UW-Madison Special Collections. #TheTempleofFlora #naturalhistory #botanicalart #Cannaindica

Gibbon by Charles Reuben Ryley from ‘Musei Leveriani explicatio, anglica et latina’ by George Shaw. London, Impensis Jacobi Parkinson, 1792-1796. Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. #NaturalHistory #Gibbon #AnimalArt

Painting of insects by Bresillac based on the work of August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof from the album ‘Collection de fleurs, d’oiseaux d’insectes.’ Drawn and colored by various students of the Royal School of Sorèze. Manuscript, 1783-1789. Harvard Houghton Library. #naturalhistory #insects

Irises from the expanded edition of ‘Florilegium renovatum et auctum’ by Johann Theodor de Bry. Published in Frankfurt by Matthaeus Merian the elder, 1641. I saw this at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation. #naturalhistory #irises #iris #BotanicalArt

'The Book of Exotic Birds: A Series of Richly Colored Plates, Accompanied by Descriptions. London: Paul Jerrard, 1852. The book was bound in what Paul Jerrard called "patent porcelain binding." The lettering is mother-of-pearl inlay. UW-Madison Special Collections. #bookhistory #bookbinding

‘The Book of Exotic Birds: A Series of Richly Colored Plates, Accompanied by Descriptions.’ London: Paul Jerrard, 111 Fleet Street, 1852. UW-Madison Special Collections. #naturalhistory #birdart #chromolithograph

Crustaceans from Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst’s ‘Versuch Einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse Nebst Eiener Systematischen Beschreibung Ihrer Verschiedenen Arten.’ Zürich: Berlin: J.C. Fuessley; G.A. Lange, 1782. University of Chicago Special Collections. #naturalhistory #animalart

An album of over 200 pressed seaweeds arranged by an anonymous Victorian collector. A transcribed poem is pasted as title page, it begins: “Oh call us not weeds, we are flowers of the sea.” UW-Madison Special Collections. #naturalhistory #seaweed #pressedseaweed #seaweedalbum #herbarium