I love to decorate my home for Halloween with vintage images. In the past, I have framed vintage skeleton illustrations and spooky bat drawings. I have just added to that collection with these human skull drawings. The human skull is associated with Halloween probably due to its symbolism of death. [Read more]
I still can’t get enough of the beautiful fish paintings of Louis Renard. I have used them again in creating a fun rainbow fish display for my gallery wall. It’s amazing to think that these wonderful tropical fish illustrations were painted in the early 18th Century. They are such bright,[Read more]
Whenever I go for a walk in the woods I can’t help pocketing a few pine cones from the forest floor. I just love a pine cone and I thought it would be fun to curate a collection of wonderful botanical pine cone drawings and prints. Pine cones are very[Read more]
A curated collection of vintage fungi and mushroom drawings from the book “Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms” by James Sowerby (1809). James Sowerby was an English naturalist, illustrator, and mineralogist. He studied art at the Royal Acadamy in London in the late 18th Century. James started off his artistic career[Read more]
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]