Inside: A collection of copy-right free vintage nature illustrations by the Dutch artist Jans Brandes. While browsing the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam’s digital collection, I came across a Dutch artist named Jan …
Inside: A collection of stunnig art nouveau pochoir prints of insects by the French artist E. A. Seguy. E. A. Seguy was a French artist and designer who gained widespread …
Inside: A tutorial to make a DIY butterfly wall decoration in the style of vintage specimen art. One of my favourite things is to wander around flea and antique markets …
A collection of carefully curated Maria Sibylla Merian prints from her seminal book “Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium”, the “Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname“. The book was published in 1705. This …
This is a collection of pochoir prints of antique butterflies from Emile-Allain Séguy’s book “Papillons”, published in 1925. Emile-Allain Séguy (1877-1951) was a French decorative artist. He was well known …
I have curated a collection of wonderful copyright-free dragonfly drawings and illustrations from ancient insect identification books. Some of these illustrations may be of closely related damselflies; where the insect …
This is a collection of the incredibly beautiful and famous antique insect art by Joris Hoefnagel. Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1601) was a famous 16th-century Flemish artist and merchant. He was mainly …
Antique Free Insect Illustrations An interest in the natural world is something I grew up with. My father is an ornithologist and my uncle an entomologist. An ornithologist is someone …
Vintage butterfly images: Butterflies are an insect from the order Lepidoptera. Hence, butterfly collectors are called lepidopterists. Butterflies are found in countries all over the world except for the coldest …