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Abolish ICE!!! US militarism is out of control and needs to be stopped. Don’t look away, don’t stay silent, don’t comply. Keep filming ICE, report sightings, and know your rights. Your silence will not protect you; dehumanization anywhere is a threat to humanity everywhere.

Corps Perdu (Lost Body)

Corps Perdu (Lost Body)
https://botfrens.com/collections/111/contents/1236779

"How do you know but every bird
That cuts the airy way
Is an immense world of delight
Closed by your senses five?"

- William Blake, 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'
(Picture is the title page from the 1790 edition)
#BookWormSat #WilliamBlake

Historical botanical engraving of a heath plant (Erica tenuiflora cunea) featuring a tall, slender branch with dense, needle-like green leaves. The branch is adorned with numerous bell-shaped, pale pink flowers clustered around the stems, each with delicate, slightly flared tips. Below the main illustration are small detailed sketches of floral parts, highlighting the plant’s reproductive structures. The illustration is finely detailed and colored, set against a plain, aged beige background typical of early 19th-century botanical prints.

🌾 Coloured engravings of heaths: London: Published by the Author. Printed by T. Bensley, 1802-09 [1830?]

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Vintage Card; A Happy New Year, illustration of kittens in basket of flowers.

🎄 #GothicAdvent #HappyNewYear

Oproep tot protest: "Handen af van Venezuela! Solidariteitsprotest tegen Amerikaanse terreur". Museumplein, Amsterdam, zondag 4 januari 14:00h. Op de achtergrond beelden van aanval op Venezuela.

Zondag 4 januari 14:00u, Museumplein:

Solidariteitsprotest tegen Amerikaanse terreur.

Handen af van Venezuela!

**Top Ten Images of the Year · #5 of 10**

✨ One of my favourite windows — a lovely 15th-century depiction of a wren hunting a spider in the Zouche Chapel at York Minster.

Design for the Church of St. Jacob

Design for the Church of St. Jacob https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/design-for-the-church-of-st-jacob

I was in Florence on a college trip and was at a church on a hill looking at the same view as Angela Merkel a few meters away from me

Rufino Tamayo
Gato (1959)
lithograph in colors on Arches paper 47.0 x 65.4 cm

The Louis E. Stern Collection

The Wasp (La Guêpe) (plate, facing page 140) from Eaux-fortes originale pour des textes de Buffon (Histoire naturelle)
https://botfrens.com/collections/111/contents/1141976

An owl sits on a branch while two smaller birds fly nearby. Print has sepia tones.

'Owl and Two Swallows' - Utagawa Toyohiro. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
#OwlishMonday #JapaneseArt

Illustration of a North American wild foxglove plant from the Smithsonian Institution, dated 1925-1928. The plant features slender green stems with clusters of tubular, bell-shaped white flowers, each marked with subtle green and pale purple accents. The foxglove’s flowers grow on slender stalks extending from the main stem, and two elongated green leaves emerge at the base. The background is plain cream, emphasizing the delicate botanical details.

🌼 North American wild flowers
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, 1925 [i.e. 1925-1928]

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It was peak.

Illustration with a rabbit in a blue jacket pulling a sledge on which another rabbit sits in a pink blanket in a snowy rural scene

"Two Rabbits with a Sled' (1894) illustration by celebrated English author Beatrix Potter
#Womensart ❄️

Valley with Ploughman Seen from Above - December 1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/3109386

Tomte looking at owl in a tree on woodland, illustration.

Tomte and owl, Lennart Helje. #OwlishMonday

This painting by Egon Schiele, 'Bare Tree behind a Fence,' captures the stark, expressive lines of a leafless tree against a textured, muted background, illustrating Schiele's characteristic exploration of isolation and desolation. The bold, contrasting brushstrokes highlight the ominous barrier of the fence, adding depth and tension to the barren landscape.

Bare Tree behind a Fence, 1912
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25204

Black and white historical botanical illustration from a 1900 garden manual depicting four types of flowers. The top left section shows anemones, featuring several slender stems with cup-shaped blooms and finely divided leaves at the base. Notable is one enlarged anemone flower detached above the cluster. The other flower groups illustrated on the page are hybrid gladiolus with tall, densely packed spike-like flowers; dahlias with rounded, full blossoms and abundant foliage; and gloxinias potted, with broad leaves and trumpet-shaped flowers. The drawing emphasizes detailed petal and leaf textures.

🥒 J. Steckler Seed Co., Ltd. garden manual 1900: .
New Orleans, La.: Steckler, 1900..

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The Iris Garden at Giverny - 1899/1900
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10786

Hare sat in front of snowy landscape with church, stone wall, gate and woman in red walking towards building, snowy hillscape in background, winter berries and ferns in foreground. Painting.

Morning.
Winter Hare, Vanessa Bowman.

Illustration titled "Athyrium Gymnogrammides" from 1873, depicting detailed botanical drawings of a fern native to southern India. The central focus is a large, finely divided fern frond with multiple intricate leaflets. Surrounding the main frond are three smaller drawings: two alternate leaf shapes showing spore patterns on the undersides, and a close-up of a circular spore cluster. The black line art emphasizes delicate vein structures and reproductive features typical of ferns, presented on a pale background. The plate is labeled "PLATE CLVI" and includes publication details at the bottom.

🌿 The ferns of southern India
Madras: Higginbotham, 1873.

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a sea serpent pondering in a midnight pond

pondering in pond

posca on sketchbook
#art

Winter Door JAC P THIJSSE, cover is decorated in pine tree branches and snow capped pine cones. Title is in a white box.

Bonus Book Cover of the Day:

Two crows in one nest, one crow in another nest, one crow perched in tree, wintered branches, full moon in night sky, illustration.

Goodnight.
🖼️ From a book by František Halas, illustrated by Ota Janeček, 1961.

Long vertical scroll with an illustration of a monkey (Gibbon) sitting on a branch - extremely cute with a happy little smiling face!

For #NationalMonkeyDay 🐒:
There are a lot of cute #monkeys in #JapaneseArt but this one may be the cutest 🥰
Kanō Sansetsu (Japan,1589-1651）
猿猴図（えんこうず) Monkey Figure (Enkozu), 17th c.
Ink on scroll
Tokyo National Museum
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Historical botanical illustration titled "Jacobi Petiveri Opera, historiam naturalem spectantia" from 1767, showing detailed black-and-white sketches of various plants, leaves, seeds, and roots. The image features numbered figures of a flowering plant with round clustered blooms, fern-like leaves with curled edges, and several seeds or shell-like shapes with textured surfaces. The plants have fine-veined leaves and visible roots. Despite the spider keyword, no spider is depicted; the focus is on natural history botanical specimens with intricate line work and shading typical of 18th-century scientific illustrations.

🕷 Jacobi Petiveri Opera, historiam naturalem spectantia
London: Printed for John Millan, Bookseller ..., 1767.

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A section of the fresco series from the Camposanto Monumentale in Pisa, titled The Last Judgment and Hell, attributed to the artist Buonamico Buffalmacco and painted around 1336-1341. The fresco is segmented into tiers, presenting a cave-like depiction of Hell. A large, monstrous, greenish devil figure dominates the center of the composition, shown seated and consuming figures. The work illustrates the punishments of the damned, with various naked figures suffering in different sections of the painting, consistent with medieval depictions of the afterlife. This scene is part of a larger cycle that includes The Triumph of Death and Stories of the Holy Fathers, intended to provoke reflection on sin and virtue.

‘O thou! whatever title suit thee,-
Auld Hornie, Satan, Nick, or Clootie!
Wha in yon cavern, grim an' sootie,
Clos'd under hatches,
Spairges about the brunstane cootie
To scaud poor wretches!’ 1/2 Address To The Devil ~ Robert Burns for #BookWormSat

Jim Crow

Jim Crow, 1986
https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5294

Illustration of a Hydrangea paniculata grandiflora branch with a large, dense cluster of small flowers. The flowers are pale cream to soft pink with rounded petals and reddish centers. Above the main cluster are smaller buds and tiny white florets. The green leaves are ovate with serrated edges and visible veins. The botanical illustration is detailed and labeled, showing the natural structure and delicate color gradations of the hydrangea flower. The image has a vintage style typical of 19th-century botanical prints.

🌳 Revue horticole..
Paris: Librairie agricole de la maison rustique, 1829-1974..

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