Living creatures such as mammals, insects, birds, and fishes
Did you know that the plural of octopus is actually octopuses? Not as I misbelieved octopi. Octopus is actually a Greek word and not Latin that is why the plural doesn’t end in i. Here I have curated a cool collection of vintage octopus illustrations free to print. I think[Read more]
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 who studies birds. An entomologist studies insects. For this post, I have curated a wonderful collection of free insect prints[Read more]
Vintage Flamingo Paintings To Print A fabulous and flamboyant collection of vintage flamingo art prints. Every year I visit my parents in Southern Portugal and my father takes his grandsons on a bird safari. My father is a well-known ornithologist and bird book author. He knows all the best places[Read more]
Charles Dessalines D’ Orbigny’s 1849 “Dictionnaire Universel D’histoire Naturelle”. This universal dictionary of nature is regarded to have some of the finest examples of 19th Century natural history art. Here I have curated the best vintage animal prints from this seminal work. Charles Dessalines D’ Orbigny’s, began with a medical[Read more]
There are over 5000 different species of songbirds around the world. For this collection of vintage free bird downloads I will just focus on some of the most popular American Songbirds. Songbirds are birds whose vocal cords have developed in such a way that they are able to produce a[Read more]
I’ve got that spring feeling. The days are longer the weather is warmer and whilst on my morning run I often spot cute rabbits and baby bunnies. With Easter just around the corner I thought it would be fun to curate a collection of vintage Easter Bunny pictures and rabbit[Read more]
Vintage butterfly images: Butterflies are a type of insect from the order Lepidoptera. Hence, butterfly collectors are called lepidopterists. Butterflies are found in countries all over the world except for the coldest ones. However, they are more abundant in the tropics and South America. I think everyone studies butterflies at[Read more]
This post is a curated collection of some of the fabulous Parrot paintings of Edward Lear. They are some of the most beautiful and colorful illustrations of parrots ever painted. Edward Lear is probably more famous for his nonsense poem “The Owl and The Pussycat” He actually wrote the poem[Read more]