Vintage Free Natural History School Emile Deyrolle Posters
This is a collection of fabulous late 19th-century French natural history educational Deyrolle Posters.
I love the old-school educational charts that used to hang on classroom walls. I’ve already shared the stunning educational geography posters of Yaggy. Here, I’ve curated some amazing natural history poster boards from Emile Deyrolle.
Maison Deyrolle
I will hop on a train to Paris when many of the current quarantine restrictions have been lifted. My first stop will be Maison Deyrolle.
Maison Deyrolle is a specialised taxidermy shop and natural history museum founded in 1831 by Jean-Baptiste Deyrolle. The shop is at 46, Rue du Bacand, Paris.
The shop specialises in natural history publications and specimens. It includes taxidermy, minerals, rocks, fossils, botanical specimens, and many other natural history specimens.
The Maison's main aim has been to educate French schoolchildren in Natural history, but it has also attracted many artists.
Artistic visitors have included the surrealists André Breton and Salvador Dalí, the painters Jean Dubuffet and Mathieu. Recent collaborations have included Damien Hirst.
The Classroom Prints
Emile Deyrolle, Jean-Baptiste’s grandson, designed the Deyrolle posters. Emile took over the family business and expanded it from a taxidermy shop to include educational equipment and charts.
One of his most successful additions was a publication of wall charts, “Deyrolle School Museum”, intended to educate French schoolchildren of all ages on natural history.
The French State became Maison's main client. Deyrolle became the leading supplier of public educational information and classroom teaching boards. Many were translated and used in schools in other countries such as Spain and Portugal.
Emile Deyrolle said: " Education through the eyes is the one which tires the intelligence the least, but this education can only have good results if the ideas which are engraved in the mind of the child are rigorous. accuracy. "
The Free Deyrolle Posters
This is quite an eclectic collection of educational natural history posters, from birds to human anatomy, skeletons and botany diagrams. I've divided the posters into two groupings, zoological and biological.
These images were from scanned original classroom posters. That is why the print quality varies; some show creases, tears, and stains. Personally, these add to the posters' character and reflect their age.
All of these Deyrolle prints are in the Public Domain, so you are free to download and use them.
Click the title above the poster you would like. A higher-resolution image will open in a new tab in your browser. This image can then be printed or saved to your hard drive by clicking the right button on your mouse.
ZOOLOGICAL DEYROLLE POSTERS
This educational Deyrolle poster features birds. More specifically, examples of waders, palmipeds, and poultry. It includes detailed close-up illustrations of their different feet.
Just in case you didn't know (I didn't), palmiped means webbed foot!
You can find many more natural history bird illustrations here on Pictureboxblue.
A second poster grouping of birds; this includes sparrows (passereaux) and finches. Also, Tenuirostres, which are mostly passerine birds (such as hummingbirds, sunbirds, honeyeaters, and nuthatches), have slender bills.
Syndactyles refers to birds with a specific type of feet, where certain toes are fused and includes Kingfishers.
This poster contains nine primates. Primates are mammals that typically have large, highly developed brains, forward-facing colour vision, flexible hands and feet with opposable thumbs, and fingernails.
This group of mammals includes humans, monkeys, apes, lemurs, bushbabies, and lorises.
4. Deyrolle Poster of the Human Nervous System
In biology, the nervous system is a highly complex part of an animal that coordinates its actions and sensory information by transmitting signals to and from different parts of its body.
The nervous system detects environmental changes that affect the body, then works with the endocrine system to respond to those events.
5. Deyrolle Poster of the Digestive System
This Deyrolle poster illustrates the human digestive system, from the mouth and teeth to the oesophagus, stomach, intestines, and rectum.
This educational poster illustrates 3 different types of mammalian skulls: carnivores, rodents, and herbivores.
Don't forget to check out the vintage human skull drawings.
This poster shows a skeleton of a Palaeotherium minus, an extinct horse-like European herbivore.
There are more vintage bat illustrations on Pictureboxblue.
Radiated animals are also called zoophytes. A zoophyte is an animal that visually resembles a plant. An example is a sea anemone. Zoologists no longer use the term.
For more wonderful illustrations of radiated animals, you should check out the nature artform posters of Ernst Haeckel.
An educational poster illustrating the bee's basic anatomy.
You will find more insect illustrations with the Adolphe Millot natural history collection of posters.
For more zoological posters, check out the animal posters of Larousse dictionaries.
Botany Deyrolle Posters
Vintage classroom poster showing the anatomy of the potato. Pomme De Terre literally translates as "apple of the earth."
Potatoes are the world's fourth most important crop and the most important non-cereal crop.
Deyrolle's anatomy poster of another popular crop, coffee.
13. Deyrolle Poster - Seed Germination
Germination refers to the growth of a plant from a seed; it results in the formation of a seedling.
Anatomy of a pine tree.
Illustrations of different types of seaweed.
Classroom poster showing the anatomy of the strawberry plant. There are some wonderful strawberry watercolours in the Pomological fruit collection on Pictureboxblue.
There is also a poppy collection on the blog.
A Deyrolle poster showing the botany of perineal herbs.
Other Related Collection
For more botany posters, check out the botanical posters of Adolphe Millot.
Check out John Emslie's "Illustrations of Natural Philosophy" for amazing Victorian vintage science posters and these Victorian Classroom charts.
The complete collection of vintage educational charts and posters can be found here.
Also check out these nature posters and prints from A History of Earth and Animated Nature.
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So interesting and beautiful! Thank you for sharing with us at Embracing Home and Family!
Thank you so much, I glad you enjoyed them.