Grosbeak and crossbills. Illustration to H G Adams and H B Adams’s ‘The Smaller British Birds’; after Alexander Francis Lydon. c 1874 (via British Museum)
THE USE. These cards of all sorts of Birds, and Beasts, are very ingeniously contriv’d, & very diverting to Young Gentlemen, & Ladys, who are Lovers of Ingenuity. The Suites of Harts, and Diamonds, contain, all sorts of Birds, The Clubbs, & Spades, all Sorts of Beasts.
Sold by John Lenthall Stationer, at ye Talbott, ag.st S.t Dunstans Church, in fleet Street, London. Where are sold, the Severall Fine Sorts, of Pictured Cards, following. Viz. The whole World described, Each card being a compleat map neatly, Engraven, and corrected, by ye best Geographers. &c.
c.1670-85 (via British Museum)
The magpie came up to me, hopping in the most graceful manner.
J-J. Grandville, from Vie privée et publique des animaux (Public and Private Life of Animals), under the direction of P. J. Stahl, Paris, 1867.
(Source: archive.org)
I am slightly obsessed with these bird drawings by Paula Swisher. You can see more of her work on Flickr and her website!
(Source: curiositykilledthecurator, via sosuperawesome)
Louis Icart
White Wings
(via thesensualstarfish)
