I am a big fan of the identification charts and posters of Adolphe Millot. This is my latest collection of his, which includes the fruit and vegetable prints. Adolphe Philippe Millot was a French naturalist and artist who illustrated many of the natural history sections of the Larousse collection of Illustrated Dictionaries. He[Read more]
This is a curated collection of some of the best plates from Owen Jones Grammar of Ornament. The Grammar of Ornament was a seminal design sourcebook by the British architect. The book was first published in 1856 but it is so important that it is still in publication today. An[Read more]
I was inspired to curate this panoramic map collection, after spotting cool old birds-eye view maps San Francisco Bay area on TV. That TV series was “Halt and Catch Fire“. The latter two seasons were set in San Francisco. One of the main characters “Joe“, had a huge antique birds-eye[Read more]
An amazing collection of avocado drawings and watercolor paintings from the US Department of Agriculture Pomological watercolor collection. There are over 7500 antique fruit watercolors and drawings in the Pomological collection. The paintings were completed between the years 1886 and 1942, by around five dozen artists. Amazingly over half of[Read more]
The stunning geography posters in this collection are all by Levi Yaggy. They are from a collection of beautiful geography charts used in schools in the US from 1887. In the past, I have shared collections of illustrated zoological posters and botanical posters from the Larousse Illustrated dictionaries. This collection[Read more]
This is a collection of whale drawings that appeared in the 1843 book “Whales” by Roger Hamilton. Whales are one of the world’s special creatures they certainly invoke a sense of wonder and fascination as well as a sense of kinship for humans. There are countless stories of people mobilizing[Read more]
I know its a bit geeky, but I got really excited when I came across a catalog of vintage art supplies. One of my favorite things to shop for is stationery and art supplies. This isn’t a new thing, I’ve been doing it ever since I had my own pocket[Read more]
All these wonderful tropical house plant drawings are from the book with a rather lengthy title. ” New and rare beautiful-leaved plants: containing illustrations and descriptions of the most ornamental-foliage plants not hitherto noticed in any work on the subject.” The book was written by Shirley Hibberd and Benjamin Fawcett in 1870.[Read more]