tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166318392024-03-09T06:00:47.790+11:00BibliOdyssey<small>Books<strong>~~</strong>Illustrations<strong>~~</strong>Science<strong>~~</strong>History<strong>~~</strong>Visual <i>Materia Obscura</i><strong>~~</strong>Eclectic Bookart.</small>peacayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997731249622552311noreply@blogger.comBlogger1300119tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16631839.post-27526265996997871292015-09-01T01:12:00.000+10:002016-11-14T11:28:42.175+11:00Viridarium Novum<div style="text-align: center;">
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<i>'New little book of flowers, in it all kinds of beautiful flowers, also fruits and little animals, which are very useful to painters, silk embroiderers, goldsmiths and similar artists and are especially useful for travelling. Engraved in copperplate in honor of all art-lovers, published in Nuremberg 1652 in the publishing house of Paulus Fürst, art dealer.'</i> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(Thanks Maren!)</span><br />
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So I suppose we can dub this sweet little album something of a (late) 'copybook' or 'model book': a drawing source for artists in various trades. And that's about as much as I've been able to find out about this publication.<br />
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Fürst's <a href="https://goo.gl/iD5QqI">name</a> pops up around the traps as a publisher and seller of pamphlets, broadsheets, books and copper engravings, but there's no particular association with natural history or botanical drawings to provide guidance here. There are twenty plates in total in <i>'Viridarium Novum'</i> plus a titlepage containing text in both Latin and German.<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/20951866405/in/dateposted/" title="Viridarium Novum a"><img alt="Viridarium Novum a" height="367" src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/683/20951866405_9f16f8c1b0_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/20942075152/in/dateposted/" title="Viridarium Novum b"><img alt="Viridarium Novum b" height="367" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5619/20942075152_dc28bd36e5_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/20959760831/in/dateposted/" title="Viridarium Novum m"><img alt="Viridarium Novum m" height="363" src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/693/20959760831_f9ef5c1402_z.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/20765595859/in/dateposted/" title="Viridarium Novum k"><img alt="Viridarium Novum k" height="361" src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/759/20765595859_01a7147a81_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/20765608809/in/dateposted/" title="Viridarium Novum j"><img alt="Viridarium Novum j" height="370" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5640/20765608809_9887612bfc_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/20764034258/in/dateposted/" title="Viridarium Novum i"><img alt="Viridarium Novum i" height="373" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5724/20764034258_8cb615b3a1_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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A cropped version of the titlepage appears below. I would have expected to see such a scene a hundred years before this book's publication; it looks like a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannerism">mannerist</a> print to my ignorant eye. Perhaps the book was copied, or the publisher was trying to imply a great depth of history and knowledge behind it? There endeth my speculation. Nevertheless, <i>it's cute</i>; it deserved a post.<br />
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<li><a href="http://docnum.u-strasbg.fr/cdm/compoundobject/collection/coll13/id/189029/rec/53"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>'Viridarium novum, variis animalculis floribus, ac herbis adornatum..'</i> is available online through the Heritage collections - Libraries of the University of Strasbourg</span></a> (thumbnails).</li>
<li><a href="http://www.wga.hu/tours/gothic/modelboo.html">*From the model-book to the sketch-book*</a> - <a href="http://www.wga.hu/">WGA</a> (Web Gallery of Art) - I have linked to this page many times in the past because it's about the only commentary about this intriguing genre of illustrated book I've found.</li>
<li>The <a href="https://www.blogger.com/Please%20see%20http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2015/09/viridarium-novum.html%20for%20more%20information." target="_blank">Viridarium Novum post</a> first appeared on the <a href="http://bibliodyssey.com/">BibliOdyssey website</a>.</li>
<li><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-size: large;">ADDIT (Nov' 2016) </span>- commenting below, Tamar Hestrin Grader helpfully advises: "Many of the elements in the plates appear to be based on Hoefnagel's <i><u><b><a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/06/archetypal-nature.html"><span id="goog_1688617909"></span>Archetypa<span id="goog_1688617910"></span></a></b></u></i>, published in 1592" AND "the title page and several of the plates (the last four shown here, for example) appear to be re-engraved versions of the plates at the end of Crispijn van der Passe's <i><u><b>Cognoscite lilia agria</b></u></i>..., printed in Cologne ca. 1614, thought to be an early version of his Hortus Floridus. Facsimile avaiable here: <a href="https://archive.org/details/cognosciteliliaa00pass">https://archive.org/details/cognosciteliliaa00pass</a> "</li>
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<b><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;">Illuminated Appreciation Albums</span></b></div>
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From 1885 to 1890 Lord Carrington was a popular Governor of NSW. He and his wife were held in such high regard by the people of NSW that a grand series of presentation albums was created by various community associations and districts to honour their service and bid them farewell when they returned to England at the end of their tenure. The Carrington Albums, as they have come to be known, were sent back to Australia in recent years by a Buckinghamshire (UK) library that housed the series on behalf of Lord Carrington's descendants. NSW State Records has digitised and placed online a number of the illuminated albums. The pages seen below come from volume 14 (they were the largest images from the available albums)<span style="font-size: x-small;">.</span><br />
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"This ‘most auspicious’ appointment [of Lord Carrington] attracted much ceremony in NSW and as a consequence saw the creation of highly decorative illuminated addresses and photograph albums to be officially presented to he Governor. During his time as Governor of NSW it was said Lord Carrington, aided by his wife, re-established the opulence of Government House and the grandeur of the office of Governor.<br />
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Upon conclusion of his time as Governor, Sydney gave Lord and Lady Carrington an unprecedented farewell, with thousands lining the streets and showering their carriage with flowers. In a parting speech, Carrington declared they were <i>'guests who found their welcome at once an adoption, and whose farewell leaves half their hearts behind’</i>."</blockquote>
The illuminated addresses were produced by watercolour artists from at least one Sydney publishing firm, John Sands Ltd<a href="http://imgur.com/cSyJbKB" target="_blank" title="note they had an 'illuminating branch'">^</a>. There is a definite attempt to decorate the locality-based addresses with flora associated with the particular district, but enough poetic license taken at times that we can conclude that natural history accuracy was not as important in the creative process as aesthetic qualities. Consequently, there are said to be some 'imaginary' plants visible among the known natives.<br />
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<li><a href="http://investigator.records.nsw.gov.au/Entity.aspx?Path=\Series\20455" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">'Album</span>[<span style="font-size: large;">s</span>]<span style="font-size: large;"> of Addresses presented to Lord Carrington as Governor of New South Wales 1885-1890' </span></a>is partly-online and available from NSW Government State Records <span style="font-size: x-small;">(where I presume they interchange 'volume' with 'album')</span>. I recall there are four albums digitised in total - three from the first five listings, plus volume 14 on the 2nd page. The images above are sourced from the last or 2nd last volume.</li>
<li><a href="http://gallery.records.nsw.gov.au/index.php/galleries/carrington-albums-illuminated-addresses/" target="_blank">The State Records - Digital Gallery entry</a> provides background, including a number of interesting commentary and associated links.</li>
<li>via: <a href="https://uoncc.wordpress.com/2015/05/27/the-carrington-albums-visit-newcastle/" target="_blank">Cultural Collections, UON Library</a>.</li>
<li>The <a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2015/08/all-hail-lord-carrington.html" target="_blank">All Hail Lord Carrington! post </a>first appeared on the <a href="http://bibliodyssey.com/" target="_blank">BibliOdyssey website</a>.</li>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;"><i><b>'Armée Française : Nouvel Alphabet Militaire'</b></i></span></div>
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This 1880s book - obviously aimed at young people - offers satirical portrayals of various branches and uniforms of the French military and each chromolithograph is accompanied by a page of descriptive text.<br />
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<b>K is for Képi<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepi">^</a></b></div>
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<b>O is for Officer</b></div>
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<b>Q is for Quartier Maitre (A marine)</b></div>
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<b>R is for Reservist</b></div>
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<b>V is for Vaguemestre (Military Postmaster)</b></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/19083548682" title="Letter 'X' (courtesy BnF)"><img alt="Letter 'X'" height="678" src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/310/19083548682_644d2207a0_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<b>X is for X. Polytechnicien </b></div>
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<b>[graduate of École polytechnique (aka: X), a higher ed facility near Paris]</b></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/18466660954" title="Letter 'Y' (courtesy BnF)"><img alt="Letter 'Y'" height="680" src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/508/18466660954_1f1ee5132a_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<b>Y is for <span style="font-size: x-small;">(?)</span> Commander of supply lines (road or rail trains)</b></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/19092457951" title="Letter 'Z' (courtesy BnF)"><img alt="Letter 'Z'" height="678" src="https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3919/19092457951_6ebbb254f5_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<b>Z is for Zouave<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zouave">^</a></b></div>
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<a href="https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/de-sta_henri.htm" target="_blank">Biographical quote from <b>LAMBIEK site</b></a>: "French illustrator <b><u>Henri de Sta</u></b> was born in Versailles as <u>Arsène Henri Saint-Alary</u>. He began his career around 1882 with La Vie Artistique and the publishing house of Léon Vanier. Coming from a family of militaries, garrison life became a regular theme in his career. De Sta worked as a humorous illustrator for Le Chat Noir since 1892. He was also present in Le Paris Bouffon (1885), Le Rire (1897) and Le Charivari (1900). He composed military alphabets, illustrated songs and produced comics for La Chronique Amusante from 1896, and for Les Contes Moraux et Merveilleux of the printing firm Pellerin d'Epinal."</blockquote>
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<li><a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8426912s/f11.planchecontact" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>'Armée Française : Nouvel Alphabet Militaire' </i>1883 is available among les Abécédaires de Gallica</span></a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_de_Sta" target="_blank">Henri de Sta Wikipedia</a> (F)</li>
<li><a href="http://nouvellesuzette.canalblog.com/archives/2007/11/17/19452948.html" target="_blank">H de Sta at nouvellesuzette</a> (F)</li>
<li><a href="http://tybalt.pagesperso-orange.fr/LesGendelettres/biographies/VanierL.htm" target="_blank">Vanier, Léon</a> (bio) (F)</li>
<li><a href="http://livresanciens-tarascon.blogspot.com/2014/12/nouvel-alphabet-militaire-par-leon.html" target="_blank">Nouvel alphabet militaire par Léon Vanier et H. De Sta. Remarquable!</a> (F)</li>
<li>via <a href="http://takamtikou.bnf.fr/dossiers/dossier-2014-la-m-diation-du-livre-pour-la-jeunesse/les-ab-c-daires-illustr-s-du-19e-si-cle" target="_blank">Marine Planche</a> (F)</li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">The above images were modestly background cleaned (including removal of library stamps!)</span></li>
<li>The <a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2015/07/military-abc-book.html" target="_blank">Military ABC Book post</a> first appeared on the <a href="http://bibliodyssey.com/" target="_blank">BibliOdyssey website</a>.</li>
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peacayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997731249622552311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16631839.post-31890247069201070882015-06-23T01:25:00.000+10:002016-07-29T14:52:13.849+10:00Humble Heather<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;">Early 19th century hand-coloured </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;">engravings of heath flowers</span></b></div>
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The vast majority of the 860+ species in the genus Erica (heaths/heather) are endemic to southern Africa. Plants from this genus don't respond well to being dug up and relocated and very few specimens were seen in Europe before the late 1700s. Discovery voyages eventually included botanists and specialist plant collectors and handlers. They could successfully preserve, dry or nurture Erica species and their parts, enabling samples to survive the rigours of a three month sea voyage to Europe.<br />
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An indication of the proliferation over time of African species of heather in Europe can be seen in this <a href="http://imgur.com/a0vPTEk" title="'Cape heaths in European gardens..' Nelson + Oliver IN: Bothalia 34. 2: 127-140), 2004">graph</a> of ~publications on Erica species. The first large peak corresponds to the array of heath plants described in the book series from which the illustration plates below were selected.<br />
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By way of clarification: the Ericaceae family consists of two very similar genera: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erica">Erica</a> (aka winter heather; and more likely called heath) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calluna">Calluna</a> (aka summer heather, consisting of one species, <i>Calluna vulgaris</i>, from which the many popular heather varietals - domestic shrubs - have been bred). The species depicted below are from the Erica genus.<br />
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<i><u>'Coloured Engravings of Heaths'</u></i> by HC Andrews is a 4-volume series from the early 19th century <span style="font-size: x-small;">(seen below)</span>, and is particularly noteworthy because the author is believed to have also taken on the roles of artist, engraver, publisher <i>and</i> hand-colourist. That level of multi-tasking is fairly rare in the world of scientific publishing, at least in my experience.<br />
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"This work exemplifies the 'Erica-mania' that dominated English horticulture at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Numerous newly discovered South African species were being introduced through the enterprise of nurserymen like Lee and Kennedy^, and several hundred species and varieties were available and in cultivation." <span style="font-size: x-small;">[<a href="http://www.antiquariaatjunk.com/item.php?item=6012">source</a>]</span></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/18060681275" title="Erica savileia (courtesy Missouri BG via BHL)"><img alt="Erica savileia" height="854" src="https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5469/18060681275_0946baa3ea_b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<i>Erica savileia</i></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/17872983740" title="Erica racemifera (courtesy Missouri BG via BHL)"><img alt="Erica racemifera" height="854" src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8858/17872983740_1b76f4fba8_b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<i>Erica racemifera</i></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/17440159233" title="Erica primuloides (courtesy Missouri BG via BHL)"><img alt="Erica primuloides" height="854" src="https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5448/17440159233_868b3e44d6_b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<i>Erica primuloides</i></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/17872774558" title="Erica pinifolia discolor (courtesy Missouri BG via BHL)"><img alt="Erica pinifolia discolor" height="854" src="https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5460/17872774558_4eb9f1eb49_b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<i>Erica pinifolia</i> <span style="font-size: x-small;">discolor</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/17873000210" title="Erica mutabilis (courtesy Missouri BG via BHL)"><img alt="Erica mutabilis" height="851" src="https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5323/17873000210_3190a1f818_b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<i>Erica mutabilis</i></div>
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<i>Erica mucronata</i></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/18060714335" title="Erica kibbertia (courtesy Missouri BG via BHL)"><img alt="Erica kibbertia" height="845" src="https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7686/18060714335_7d2d8d2673_b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<i>Erica kibbertia</i></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/18034223976" title="Erica hirta, var viridiflora (courtesy Missouri BG via BHL)"><img alt="Erica hirta, var viridiflora" height="845" src="https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5348/18034223976_b83bb64dd8_b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<i>Erica hirta,</i> <span style="font-size: x-small;">var viridiflora</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/17874482479" title="Erica erubescens (courtesy Missouri BG via BHL)"><img alt="Erica erubescens" height="845" src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8829/17874482479_3a53628e9a_b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<i>Erica erubescens</i></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/18034235046" title="Erica emarginata (courtesy Missouri BG via BHL)"><img alt="Erica emarginata" height="845" src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8793/18034235046_c2ab2e44a2_b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<i>Erica emarginata</i></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/17440209153" title="Erica elegans (courtesy Missouri BG via BHL)"><img alt="Erica elegans" height="865" src="https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5452/17440209153_bdc37f0156_b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<i>Erica elegans</i></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/17873045310" title="Erica echiiflora (courtesy Missouri BG via BHL)"><img alt="Erica echiiflora" height="865" src="https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5446/17873045310_86f743fcf6_b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<i>Erica echiiflora</i></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/17872064708" title="Erica densa (courtesy Missouri BG via BHL)"><img alt="Erica densa" height="865" src="https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5343/17872064708_9b1fa5736d_b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<i>Erica densa</i></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/17437392884" title="Erica decora (courtesy Missouri BG via BHL)"><img alt="Erica decora" height="865" src="https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7757/17437392884_e9ca5ffcd0_b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<i>Erica decora</i></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/17873749429" title="Erica clavata (courtesy Missouri BG via BHL)"><img alt="Erica clavata" height="854" src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8844/17873749429_839b59c214_b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<i>Erica clavata</i></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/18060005815" title="Erica calycina major (courtesy Missouri BG via BHL)"><img alt="Erica calycina major" height="854" src="https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7723/18060005815_a91a62e0ef_b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<i>Erica calycina</i> <span style="font-size: x-small;">major</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/17872088998" title="Erica aurea, flore pallida (courtesy Missouri BG via BHL)"><img alt="Erica aurea, flore pallida" height="869" src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8886/17872088998_2491214c33_b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<i>Erica aurea</i>, <span style="font-size: x-small;">flore pallida</span></div>
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<i>Erica aspera</i></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/17873774649" title="Erica aristata (courtesy Missouri BG via BHL)"><img alt="Erica aristata" height="873" src="https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7786/17873774649_bf3ce2e2f1_b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<i>Erica aristata</i></div>
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The full title of Henry Charles Andrews' publication is: <i><u>'Coloured Engravings of Heaths. The drawings taken from living plants only. With the appropriate specific character, full description, native place of growth, and time of flowering of each; in Latin and English. Each figure accompanied by accurate dissections of the several parts (magnified where necesary) upon which the specific distinction has been founded, according to the Linnæan system'</u></i>. It appears Andrews was author-publisher of some six or eight botanical works in total (including a few multi-volume series); most on Erica/heath species, together with monographs on some rare plants and flowers. His name(s) make(s) tracking down his publishing record difficult to say the least.<br />
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"<i>'Coloured Engravings of Heaths'</i> published between 1794 and 1830 is regarded as the most significant work of the botanical artist Henry Charles Andrews {fl. 1784-1830) (Cleevely & Oliver 2002). He has always been something of an enigma. His dates of birth and death have not been discovered. His family background is obscure, apart from a link to the nurseryman John Kennedy (1759-1842) through his marriage to ^Kennedy's daughter, Anne (b. 1784). For much of his life Andrews lived in London, and judging by his numerous business addresses between 1813 and 1825, was rather unsettled. He described himself as ''Botanical printer and engraver" but from the evidence of a paper slip^ preserved in one copy of Coloured engravings he had another occupation, for this announced that 'H. Andrews respectfully informs the nobility. Gentry &c. that he continues to Teach DRAWING and COLOURING correctly from Nature, ETCHING, &c on the most reasonable terms.' " <span style="font-size: x-small;">[<a href="https://archive.org/details/heathersyearbook06heat" title="Heathers: yearbook of the Heather Society 2009">source</a>]</span></blockquote>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>'Coloured Engravings of Heaths'</i> </b></span>(Vol 3)<span style="font-size: large;"> by Henry C Andrews has been made available online by Missouri Botanical Gardens through both the <a href="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/51136#/summary">Biodiversity Heritage Library</a> and their <a href="http://www.botanicus.org/bibliography/b11943129">Botanicus website</a> </span>(though they both have different title pages for some reason; however, the illustrations appear to be identical in each).</li>
<li>Henry Charles Andrews biography [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Charles_Andrews" title="Wikipedia has about the only freely accessible biographical information online apparently">W</a>]</li>
<li><b>pdf article direct</b>: <a href="http://www.abcjournal.org/index.php/ABC/article/viewPDFInterstitial/427/368">'Cape heaths in European gardens: the early history of South African Erica species in cultivation, their deliberate hybridization and the orthographic bedlam'</a> by Nelson & Oliver, 2004 <b>IN</b>: <u>Bothalia</u> 34 (2): 127-140</li>
<li><a href="http://www.theplantlist.org/browse/A/Ericaceae/Erica/">A working list of all plant species from the genus Erica</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.bhg.com/gardening/trees-shrubs-vines/shrubs/growing-heathers-and-heaths/">How to Grow Heathers and Heaths</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.antiquariaatjunk.com/item.php?item=6012">Antiquariaat Junk bookseller's page</a>.</li>
<li>Thanks <a href="https://twitter.com/john_overholt">J.O.</a></li>
<li>The <a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2015/06/humble-heather.html" target="_blank">Humble Heather post</a> first appeared on the <a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">BibliOdyssey website</a>.</li>
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peacayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997731249622552311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16631839.post-83652577018525199742015-05-20T00:40:00.000+10:002015-05-20T00:40:34.062+10:00Japanese Falconry<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;"><b>These woodblock illustrations of falcon </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;"><b>training come from a mid-1860s</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;"><b>album called <i>'Ehon Taka Kagami'</i> </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;"><b>(~The Illustrated Mirror of Falconry)</b></span></div>
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"<b>Kawanabe Kyôsai (Gyôsai)</b> <small>(1831-89)</small> was a Kano painter, printmaker, and illustrator, the son of a Samurai. At the age of six he entered the studio of Utagawa Kuniyoshi<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utagawa_Kuniyoshi" title="Wikipedia entry">^</a>, and from the age of nine became a student of the academic Kano school, studying under Maemura Towa and then Tohaku Chinshin, who gave him the name "Toiku". He exhibited at the Vienna International Exposition in 1873, and at the first and second Paris Japanese Art Exhibitions of 1883 and 1884. In the early years of the Meiji period (1868-1912) he attained considerable popularity with his political caricatures, for which he was arrested and imprisoned in 1870. His famous <i>'Kyosai Gadan'</i> (1887), an attempt to show a variety of traditional Japanese and Chinese painting styles, was widely appreciated in Europe, and was issued with English captions for the export market. <br />
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Kyosai's <i>'Ehon Taka Kagami'</i> is the major resource on Japanese falconry, with wonderful woodcuts of hawks, field work, breeding, hoods, gloves, and other associated tools and items of equipment. It records the ancient Japanese methods of care, raising, and training of the Siberian Goshawk, considered the best variety for use in falconry since ancient times. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Harting 371. Schwerdt III p. 245; see G. Schack. Kyosais Falkenjagd.</span>" [<a href="http://www.antiquariaatjunk.com/item.php?item=8635" title="Antiquarian Junk Natural History Bookshop">source</a>]</blockquote>
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"A major resource on Japanese falconry, the capture, taming & teaching of falcons, the grooming, feeding and culture of the bird of prey. Wonderful illustrations of falcons, the associated tools & equipment, stands, methods of warming in winter before the hunt, winter hunting, respect for. On the flushing to expose game birds to be hunted by the falcon, the kill, capture of the quarry. How to tether, hoods, master's gloves and other accoutrements, field work, breeding, bathing &c." [source: <span style="font-size: x-small;">removed ebay auction listing</span>]</blockquote>
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"This magnificent work was issued once in a single first and only edition, and is complete in five volumes. The first series: 3 vols. were published in 1877, followed by the second series consisting of 2 volumes in 1879. [..] <br />
This marvelous work uses crushed mica as an integral part of the hand-made Washi paper. These tiny flecks of mica give a sparkle to the illustrations, and are especially effective on the feather portion of the falcons. Mica gives a realistic and "high-tech" touch to the wood-cut printing technique. [..] The collation of the set is: vol. 1,3,4,5, each have 10p.; vol. 2 has 11p. Every page is nicely illustrated, it contains some 111 illustrations in all. [..]<br />
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This work is the most comprehensive single monograph devoted to Japanese falconry ever published in the 19th century or in prior periods. Gyôsai's superb artistic skill and solid ability to capture the essence and feel of real and live Japanese falconry has yet to be surpassed in woodcut media. The application of mica dust is now a lost art, and never done. The work outlines the ancient methods and culture of the falcon. This work records the last of the ancient falconry methods of care, raising and training, again a lost art in Japan." [<a href="http://www.zvab.com/KAGAMI-ILLUSTRATED-MIRROR-HAWKS-PICTURES-DIFFERENT/224238387/buch" title="ZVZB, a German rare book dealer">source</a>]</blockquote>
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<li><a href="http://educators.mfa.org/asia-africa/ehon-taka-kagami-illustrated-mirror-falconry-44709"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>'Ehon Taka Kagami'</i> can be viewed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston</b></span></a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://takenote.chs.harvard.edu/node/41">'Falconry Illustrated'</a> is a section of a Harvard University exhibition showing some Japanese falconry illustrations from before 1800.</li>
<li><a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com.au/2011/05/falconry.html">Previously on BibliOdyssey: <b>Falconry</b></a><b> </b>(very much worth seeing!). Also: <i><a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com.au/2009/06/eye-spy.html">Le Fauconnier</a></i>.</li>
<li>Belated thanks to <a href="http://hawkdog.net/wordpress/">John Pittman</a> = <a href="https://twitter.com/drhypercube">@dryhypercube</a>.</li>
<li>Tangential at best: raptors versus drones - <a href="https://www.metafilter.com/143506/A-New-Golden-Age-of-Falconry">*A New Golden Age of Falconry*</a>.</li>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white;">This striking set of hand-painted botanical and </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white;">insect prints was produced by Johanna Helena </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white;">German-Dutch <u>Merian</u> family of artists.</b></span></div>
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The Merian dynasty of artists really began in Switzerland with Johanna Helena Herolt's grandfather, Matthäus Merian the Elder <small>(d. 1650)</small>, a renowned engraver and publisher who married into the equally talented de Bry family of Frankfurt artist-printers. Herolt's mother was only four years of age when her father died, but with encouragement from step-father artist, Jacob Moreel, Maria Sibylla Merian [<a href="http://www.google.com.au/cse?cx=partner-pub-9247814014711577%3A3996975864&ie=UTF-8&q=sibylla+merian&sa=Search+BibliOdyssey#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=sibylla%20merian&gsc.page=1" target="_blank" title="BibliOdyssey posts/mentions of Maria Sibylla Merian">link</a>] pursued a highly successful career in Europe and South America as an artist-scientist. She married (and later divorced) German portraitist and still life artist, Johann Andreas Graff <span style="font-size: x-small;">(d. 1701)</span>, <br />
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Maria Sibylla Merian produced ground-breaking depictions of insect life cycles with associated plants, and her two daughters (including Johanna Helena Herolt, née Graaf) were intimately involved in the design, engraving and colouring of her mother's book illustrations. Herolt's other principal claim to fame was her hand-colouring contributions to the exceptional series on Amsterdam's botanical gardens, the Commelins' <i>'Horti Medici Amstelodamensis'</i> <span style="font-size: x-small;">[<a href="http://www.doaks.org/library-archives/library/library-exhibitions/botany-of-empire/gardens/horti-medici-amstelodamensis">link</a>]</span>, 1697.<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/16095159883" title="Flor Solis (Sonnenblume) [courtesy Lower Saxony Heritage]"><img alt="Flor Solis (Sonnenblume)" height="633" src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8658/16095159883_46baa7ed45_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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Flor Solis (Sonnenblume)</div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/16527676120" title="Vritilaria (Schachblume) [courtesy Lower Saxony Heritage]"><img alt="Vritilaria (Schachblume)" height="640" src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8561/16527676120_b212aef42a_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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Vritilaria (Schachblume)</div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/16507829697" title="Een Bloem Pot (Eine Blumenvase) [courtesy Lower Saxony Heritage]"><img alt="Een Bloem Pot (Eine Blumenvase)" height="727" src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8590/16507829697_d4996aed1b_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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Een Bloem Pot (Eine Blumenvase)</div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/16095156083" title="Inula Helenium (Echter Alant) [courtesy Lower Saxony Heritage]"><img alt="Inula Helenium (Echter Alant)" height="668" src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8669/16095156083_98c5ecb992_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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Inula Helenium (Echter Alant)</div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/16714036822" title="Serpentaria [courtesy Lower Saxony Heritage]"><img alt="Serpentaria" height="633" src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8638/16714036822_31db8ef883_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/16713817201" title="Shaert en wilde Violen (Stiefmütterchen und wilde Veilchen) [courtesy Lower Saxony Heritage]"><img alt="Shaert en wilde Violen (Stiefmütterchen und wilde Veilchen)" height="640" src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8635/16713817201_f5a828e2ed_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="516" /></a><br />
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Shaert en wilde Violen (Stiefmütterchen und wilde Veilchen)</div>
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"Johanna Helena Herolt, born in Frankfurt, Germany, was the eldest daughter of painter, draftsman, and engraver Johann Andreas Graff <small>(1637-1701)</small>, and well-known insect and botanical painter and nature researcher Maria Sibylla Merian <span style="font-size: x-small;">(1647-1717)</span>. Along with her sister, Dorothea Maria Graff <small>(1678-1743)</small>, Johanna Helena learned to paint from her renowned mother and father. </blockquote>
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Dr. Sam Segal [..] writes:<br />
“Johanna Helena Herolt is, or was until recently, an underestimated artist, who had been working closely with her famous mother. She assisted her already ill mother during her last years by finishing works, sometimes signed by both. Johanna married the merchant Jacob Hendrik Herolt from Bacharach (Germany) in 1692. She went to Surinam, with her husband, in 1711 where she did what her mother had done before: collecting and drawing flowers and insects. She died after 1723, possibly in Surinam.” "[<a href="http://www.oakspring.org/Herolt.html" target="_blank" title="Oak Spring Garden Library">source</a>]</blockquote>
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<li><a href="http://kulturerbe.niedersachsen.de/viewer/suche/-/Johanna%20Helena%20Herolt/1/-/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">The Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum in Brunswick own a collection of botanical/entomological prints attributed to Johanna Helena Herolt : 50 images are hosted online at the Lower Saxony Heritage portal</span></a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?searchText=Herolt&images=true" target="_blank">The British Museum</a> hosts a further dozen images featuring Herolt's input.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/merian/">*Maria Sibylla Merian & Daughters: Women of Art and Science*</a> - Getty Center exhibition overview from 2008.</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna_Helena_Herolt">Johanna Helena Graaf-Herolt at Wikipedia</a>.</li>
<li>Huygens ING: <a href="http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/graff">Graff, Johanna Helena (1668-na 1723)</a> [Dutch] -- [<a href="http://goo.gl/D4lww2">translation</a>]</li>
<li><a href="http://amzn.to/1EQwna6" target="_blank"><i>'Maria Sibylla Merian and Daughters: Women of Art and Science' </i>2008 by Ella Reitsma</a> --- I <a href="http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/41331094?uid=3737536&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21106037196231" target="_blank" title="incomplete article unless you have a subscription">saw</a> a review article of this book by Martha Moffitt Peacock <b>IN</b>: <u>Woman's Art Journal</u>, Vol. 31, No. 2 (FALL / WINTER 2010), pp. 65-67 -- thanks Karla.</li>
<li>Oak Spring Garden Library: <a href="http://www.oakspring.org/Herolt.html" target="_blank">*Digitizing Project: Seven botanical watercolor and bodycolor drawings*</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.doaks.org/library-archives/library/library-exhibitions/botany-of-empire/gardens/horti-medici-amstelodamensis" target="_blank">*Amsterdam’s Hortus Medicus and the Commelins*</a>.</li>
<li>Wikipedia: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matth%C3%A4us_Merian" target="_blank">Matthäus Merian the Elder</a> -- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Sibylla_Merian" target="_blank">Maria Sibylla Merian</a> --</li>
<li>Previously on BibliOdyssey: <a href="http://www.google.com.au/cse?cx=partner-pub-9247814014711577%3A3996975864&ie=UTF-8&q=maria+sibylla+Merian&sa=Search+BibliOdyssey#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=maria%20sibylla%20Merian&gsc.page=1" target="_blank">Maria Sibylla Merian</a> & <a href="http://www.google.com.au/cse?cx=partner-pub-9247814014711577%3A3996975864&ie=UTF-8&q=Matth%C3%A4us+Merian&sa=Search+BibliOdyssey#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=Matth%C3%A4us%20Merian&gsc.page=1" target="_blank">Matthäus Merian</a> (Elder & Younger)</li>
<li>The Sci-Art Pedigree <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;">post first appeared on the </span><a href="http://bibliodyssey.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #199d8e; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">BiliOdyssey website</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;">.</span></li>
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peacayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997731249622552311noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16631839.post-33207437021009681162015-03-01T01:26:00.002+11:002015-03-03T09:13:46.614+11:00Fiore dei Liberi<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><b>Fior di Battaglia = Flower of Battle = <i>Flos Duellatorum</i>,</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><b>a combat manual created in the first decade of 15th cent.</b></span></div>
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"Like people today, people of the medieval and Renaissance periods read how-to books. This manuscript by the greatest fencing-master of the late 1300s, <u style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco</u>, instructs the reader in the intricacies of combat. Lively illustrations of charging horses and armored knights accompany the text. Through words and pictures, the manuscript teaches a variety of fighting techniques including single combat on foot with sword, dagger, and ax[e], and also mounted combat in all its variations. Nicolò III d'Este, ruler of Ferrara, ordered at least three copies of this text, including this one. Nicolò's interest in such a manual was quite natural, since fighting played an important role in the education of young nobleman, and he himself was raising three sons." [<a href="http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/1443/unknown-fiore-furlan-dei-liberi-da-premariacco-il-fior-di-battaglia-italian-about-1410/">link</a>]</blockquote>
<a href="https://delicious.com/bibliodyssey/combat" target="_blank">See the *combat* tag for a range of previous BibliOdyssey posts</a> on swordsmanship, weaponry, munitions, war arts, defensive emplacements &c.<br />
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The parchment manuscript <span style="font-size: x-small;">(~20.5 x 30cm)</span> below features illustrations executed in tempera colours, gold leaf, silver leaf, and ink. This sample of manuscript images was chosen from among the 85+ leaves of the manuscript, and they have been variously cropped and lightly cleaned in the background at times.<br />
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<b><u>Fiore dei Liberi</u></b>: "As a young man I desired to learn armed fighting, including the art of fighting in the lists with spear, poleaxe, sword, dagger and unarmed grappling, on foot and on horseback, armored and unarmored. In addition I wanted to study how weapons were made, and the characteristics of each weapon for both offense and defense, particularly as they applied to mortal combat.</blockquote>
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I also desired to learn the wondrous secrets of this art known only by very few men in this world. And these secrets will give you mastery of attack and defense, and make you invincible, for victory comes easily to a man who has the skill and mastery described above. </blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I learned these skills from many German and Italian masters and their senior students, in many provinces and many cities, and at great personal cost and expense.<br />
And by the grace of God I also acquired so much knowledge at the courts of noblemen, princes, dukes, marquises, counts, knights and squires, that increasingly I was myself asked to teach. My services were requested many times by noblemen, knights and their squires, who wanted me to teach them the art of armed combat both for fighting at the barrier and for mortal combat. And so I taught this art to many Italians and Germans and other noblemen who were obliged to fight at the barrier, as well as to numerous noblemen who did not actually compete. [..] </blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>It’s my opinion that in this art there are few men in the world who can really call themselves Masters, and it is my goal to be remembered as one of them. To that end I have created this book all about this martial art and the things related to it, including weapons, their applications, and other aspects too." {partial translation of Preface: <a href="http://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Fiore_de%27i_Liberi" target="_blank">source</a>}</blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/16180336068" title="Combat with Dagger and Sword (courtesy of Getty Museum)"><img alt="Combat with Dagger and Sword" height="745" src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8673/16180336068_9e76ab7d27_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/16180577610" title="Four Allegorical Figures (courtesy of Getty Museum)"><img alt="Four Allegorical Figures" height="745" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7289/16180577610_3e358aba2e_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15745513624" title="Combat with Sword (courtesy of Getty Museum)"><img alt="Combat with Sword" height="745" src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8567/15745513624_8cc4b572e0_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/16180327538" title="Combat with Pollaxe (courtesy of Getty Museum)"><img alt="Combat with Pollaxe" height="745" src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8663/16180327538_77aa82a6ac_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/16341981376" title="Combat with Lance (courtesy of Getty Museum)"><img alt="Combat with Lance" height="745" src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8571/16341981376_da3c06c99c_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/16181731219" title="Fiore dei Liberi - Ludwig XV 13, Fol. 47 (Two Horses) a (courtesy of Getty Museum)"><img alt="Fiore dei Liberi - Ludwig XV 13, Fol. 47 (Two Horses) a" height="347" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7457/16181731219_a3d5220061_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">The manuscript images above - <i>'Il Fior di Battaglia'</i> by Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco - were sourced from the <a href="https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/entity/%2Fm%2F029960?projectId=art-project" target="_blank">Google Art Project site</a>; which were in turn supplied by the <a href="http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/1443/unknown-fiore-furlan-dei-liberi-da-premariacco-il-fior-di-battaglia-italian-about-1410/">J. Paul Getty Museum website</a>.</span></li>
<li><a href="http://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Fiore_de%27i_Liberi">The Wiktenauer site (free library of Historical European Martial Arts books and manuscripts) has a very detailed presentation of the manuscript</a>, including translations of the extant manuscript versions.</li>
<li>Essay --- <a href="http://www.thearma.org/essays/Fiore/FioreDeiLiberi_StudyGuide.v3.6.pdf">'Fiore Dei Liberi: 14th century Master of Defence' by John Clements</a> is a <b><span style="background-color: yellow; color: blue; font-size: large;">.pdf</span></b> hosted by <a href="http://www.thearma.org/" target="_blank">ARMA</a> (Association for Renaissance Martial Arts)</li>
<li>Previously on BibliOdyssey -- <a href="http://delicious.com/bibliodyssey/combat" target="_blank">combat tag</a>.</li>
<li>From Schola Gladiatoria: <a href="http://www.fioredeiliberi.org/fiore/">http://www.fioredeiliberi.org/fiore/</a></li>
<li>Thanks to Jarkko for the help and patience.</li>
<li>The Fiore dei Liberi post first appeared on the <a href="http://bibliodyssey.com/" target="_blank">BiliOdyssey website</a>.</li>
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peacayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997731249622552311noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16631839.post-22170207030856494742014-11-13T00:13:00.001+11:002014-11-13T04:01:44.387+11:00Peking Opera Figures<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;">Album of 100 Portraits of Personages from Chinese Opera</span></b></div>
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<b>Period:</b> Qing dynasty (1644–1911)<br />
<b>Date:</b> late 19th–early 20th century<br />
<b>Culture</b>: China<br />
<b>Medium</b>: Album of fifty leaves; ink, color, and gold on silk<br />
<b>Artist</b>: Unidentified<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15757250645" title="Chinese Opera figure l (courtesy Met Museum)"><img alt="Chinese Opera figure l" height="768" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7498/15757250645_4165227202_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15571416869" title="Chinese Opera figure b (courtesy Met Museum)"><img alt="Chinese Opera figure b" height="651" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7541/15571416869_0138e5c896_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15137845523" title="Chinese Opera figure m (courtesy Met Museum)"><img alt="Chinese Opera figure m" height="648" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3953/15137845523_e7ecbc6746_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15758806322" title="Chinese Opera figure i (courtesy Met Museum)"><img alt="Chinese Opera figure i" height="648" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7554/15758806322_e05072f39f_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15757267005" title="Chinese Opera figure c (courtesy Met Museum)"><img alt="Chinese Opera figure c" height="649" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3946/15757267005_3ae831fcee_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15755388861" title="Chinese Opera figure h (courtesy Met Museum)"><img alt="Chinese Opera figure h" height="650" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3956/15755388861_aba1c30315_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15572451950" title="Chinese Opera figure f (courtesy Met Museum)"><img alt="Chinese Opera figure f" height="643" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5606/15572451950_31bf699971_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15758792772" title="Chinese Opera figure (courtesy Met Museum)"><img alt="Chinese Opera figure" height="651" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7551/15758792772_aed2f753f5_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15758818272" title="Chinese Opera figure a (courtesy Met Museum)"><img alt="late 19th century watercolour sketch of member of Peking Opera company" height="650" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5615/15758818272_c3741e94fd_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15755379281" title="Chinese Opera figure k (courtesy Met Museum)"><img alt="Chinese Opera figure k" height="648" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7531/15755379281_d8142bccd7_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15757265265" title="Chinese Opera figure d (courtesy Met Museum)"><img alt="Chinese Opera figure d" height="646" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5613/15757265265_7abcde3a87_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15572451510" title="Chinese Opera figure g (courtesy Met Museum)"><img alt="Chinese Opera figure g" height="643" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3952/15572451510_91220c399e_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15137300184" title="Chinese Opera figure e (courtesy Met Museum)"><img alt="Chinese Opera figure e" height="646" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7541/15137300184_1e7a15abd5_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15572433560" title="Chinese Opera figure o (courtesy Met Museum)"><img alt="Chinese Opera figure o" height="640" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3951/15572433560_34a8e6f97b_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15733539886" title="Chinese Opera figure n (courtesy Met Museum)"><img alt="Chinese Opera figure n" height="646" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3947/15733539886_109cecb757_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15757255895" title="Chinese Opera figure j (courtesy Met Museum)"><img alt="Chinese Opera figure j" height="650" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7537/15757255895_f8645bb0f9_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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"In the opera boom of the late nineteenth century, albums were turned to a new purpose: documenting the variety and vibrancy of stage culture in all its multicolored splendor. This album records in detail the makeup and costume of one hundred characters drawn from nine plays. Each character is identified with an accompanying inscription, and the plays are named at the top right of nine of the leaves in slightly larger script."</blockquote>
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<li><a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/51581" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>'One Hundred Portraits of Peking Opera Characters'</i></b> is available online via the Metropolitan Museum website </span></a>(click on 'Additional Images' below [L] of the picture on that page. The down arrow - bottom [R] - of each image allows for downloading)</li>
<li>This opera figure series is one of the items on view at <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2014/art-of-the-chinese-album"><b>*The Art of the Chinese Album*</b> exhibition</a>, running at the museum between September 2014 and March 2015.</li>
<li>Previously: <a href="https://delicious.com/bibliodyssey/china">China</a>.</li>
<li>Thanks Will C!</li>
<li>The images above were lightly background cleaned of age-related staining.</li>
<li>The Peking Opera Figures post first appeared on the <a href="http://bibliodyssey.com/">BibliOdyssey website</a>.</li>
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peacayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997731249622552311noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16631839.post-86997177051599608512014-11-06T23:20:00.001+11:002014-12-02T01:34:19.794+11:00Schönschreibmeister<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: x-large;"><b>A Calligraphy Master's Album</b></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15445764976" title="FJ Brechtel calligraphy 16th cent. (via Bamberg State Library)"><img alt="FJ Brechtel calligraphy 16th cent. a" height="427" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3933/15445764976_48ec3f9faf_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15465706391" title="FJ Brechtel calligraphy 16th cent. c by (via Bamberg State Library)"><img alt="FJ Brechtel calligraphy 16th cent. c" height="427" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3936/15465706391_3368952f74_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15466317051" title="FJ Brechtel calligraphy 16th cent. f by (via Bamberg State Library)"><img alt="FJ Brechtel calligraphy 16th cent. f" height="420" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3934/15466317051_5433d5a222_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15282561409" title="FJ Brechtel calligraphy 16th cent. i by (via Bamberg State Library)"><img alt="FJ Brechtel calligraphy 16th cent. i" height="442" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5598/15282561409_9bea5b789a_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15469243892" title="FJ Brechtel calligraphy 16th cent. k by (via Bamberg State Library)"><img alt="FJ Brechtel calligraphy 16th cent. k" height="432" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2945/15469243892_c0dd829860_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15445760976" title="FJ Brechtel calligraphy 16th cent. b by (via Bamberg State Library)"><img alt="FJ Brechtel calligraphy 16th cent. b" height="423" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3929/15445760976_dbec098972_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15282892927" title="FJ Brechtel calligraphy 16th cent. j (cropped) by (via Bamberg State Library)"><img alt="FJ Brechtel calligraphy 16th cent. j (cropped)" height="328" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3934/15282892927_34ccab8093_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15469571175" title="FJ Brechtel calligraphy 16th cent. m by (via Bamberg State Library)"><img alt="FJ Brechtel calligraphy 16th cent. m" height="428" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3932/15469571175_4c9722733e_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15466434351" title="FJ Brechtel calligraphy 16th cent. n by (via Bamberg State Library)"><img alt="FJ Brechtel calligraphy 16th cent. n" height="426" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3928/15466434351_0c300deccd_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15469573575" title="FJ Brechtel calligraphy 16th cent. l by (via Bamberg State Library)"><img alt="FJ Brechtel calligraphy 16th cent. l" height="423" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2949/15469573575_f54dac3de2_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://bvbm1.bib-bvb.de/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=3041548&custom_att_2=simple_viewer"><i>'Werke der Schönschreibmeister'</i> by FH Brechtel (1573) is available from Bamberg State Library in Germany</a>.</span><br />
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The 24 page paper manuscript is dominated by Middle German blackletter scripts with extravagant embellishment, and a minority of the pages contain 'less' ornamental writing in Latin.<br />
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The manuscript appears to be a compilation of calligraphic examples by one of the originators of early fraktur<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraktur" target="_blank">^</a> scripts, Johann Neudörffer the Elder, to whom this album is dedicated. The manuscript's title - <span style="font-size: x-small;">something like:</span> The <strike>Beautiful</strike> Works of the Master Scribe<b><i>s</i></b> - is also suggestive of Brechtel having assembled a set of Neudörffer's calligraphy output, rather than his presenting an adaptation or transformation from the originals. [<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Later</span>: I'm informed the title is plural, meaning Master Scribe<b><i>s</i></b> or similar; so we might presume the album script examples come from a variety of sources beyond simply Neudörffer']<br />
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Neudörffer was an important educator and he published text books in Nuremberg on writing which dominated teaching curriculums for a couple of centuries; and his calligraphy endeavours were similarly admired. Neudörffer is also honoured as the first biographical historian of German artists, though his <i>'Nachrichten'</i> (1547) wasn't published until the 1800s. He was lucky enough to have counted Albrecht Dürer as a friend and neighbour!<br />
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There is not a lot of information about Franz Joachim Brechtel <span style="font-size: x-small;">(that I can find)</span> online. It would appear that his main claim to fame and employment stems from music sheets that he printed. I'm unsure whether he was the composer or simply the designer/publisher of the sheet music. In either case, his name is associated today with more than a hundred pieces of music that I - just - randomly found on the internet (so a role as composer seems more likely, though I didn't dig into it).<br />
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<li>Neudörfer (or Neudörffer), Johannes (i.e., Johann), <i>der Ältere</i> at the <a href="https://dictionaryofarthistorians.org/neudorferj.htm" target="_blank">Dictionary of Art Historians</a>.</li>
<li>Brechtel at <a href="http://musicalics.com/es/node/82775" target="_blank">Musicalis</a>.</li>
<li><i>'Lied und Liederbuch in der Frühen Neuzeit'</i> 2009 by A Classen and L Richter features some biographical commentary on Franz Brechtel - (<a href="http://goo.gl/9wuumM" target="_blank">snippets</a>)</li>
<li><b>ADDIT</b>: go see <a href="http://thonyc.wordpress.com/2012/06/11/hans-peter-from-langendorf/" target="_blank">Thony's very interesting post at The Renaissance Mathematicus</a> wherein he expounds greatly on the printing scene in Nuremberg in the 15th/16th centuries.</li>
<li>Thanks <a href="http://zeroglotte.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Jeanne</a>!</li>
<li>Previously (specifically) on BibliOdyssey: <a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/04/nuremberg-scribe.html" target="_blank">Nuremberg Scribe</a> features elaborate scripts produced by Stephan Brechtel - likely a brother of Franz - and there's a <a href="http://www.nordbayern.de/nuernberger-zeitung/2.283/vollendete-formen-ohne-zirkel-und-lineal-1.859225" target="_blank">link </a>in there to a post on the Brechtel family of calligraphers </li>
<li>Previously on BiblOdyssey: the many posts under the tag of <a href="https://delicious.com/bibliodyssey/calligraphy" target="_blank">calligraphy</a>.</li>
<li>The Schönschreibmeister post first appeared on the <a href="http://bibliodyssey.com/" target="_blank">BibliOdyssey website</a>.</li>
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peacayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997731249622552311noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16631839.post-47515925908946205792014-11-02T04:29:00.003+11:002014-11-02T04:29:54.954+11:00Folies Bergère<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;">Advertising posters for music-hall cabaret </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;">shows in Paris in the late 19th century</span></b></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15641425406" title="Tous les soirs, Thaumaturgie humoristique (courtesy BNF)"><img alt="19th cent. french music-hall poster called: Tous les soirs, Thaumaturgie humoristique" height="741" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3956/15641425406_d6d68e9843_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="559" /></a><br />
<b>Title</b>: Folies-Bergère, tous les soirs, Thaumaturgie humoristique par le Comte Patrizio de Castiglione <br />
<b>Artist</b>: Jules Chéret<br />
<b>Date</b>: 1875<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15662473021" title="Ramoneurs Musiceaux (courtesy BNF)"><img alt="19th cent. french music-hall poster of chimney sweeps" height="800" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5602/15662473021_3b9a7cf9ef_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="516" /></a><br />
<b>Title:</b> Folies-Bergère...Les Prices, ramoneurs musicaux...<br />
<b>Artist:</b> F Appel (lithographer)<br />
<b>Date:</b> 1890<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15479572000" title="La Danse du Feu (courtesy BNF)"><img alt="19th cent. french music-hall poster - girl on fire!" height="723" src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8595/15479572000_735c0ac15d_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<b>Title: </b>Folies-Bergère. La danse du feu [La Loïe Fuller]<br />
<b>Artist: </b>Jules Chéret<br />
<b>Date: </b>1897<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15479179257" title="Le plus nouveau spectacle. Le kangourou boxeur (courtesy BNF)"><img alt="19th cent. french music-hall poster - boxing kangaroo" height="706" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5602/15479179257_569b8ee09b_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<b>Title: </b>Folies-Bergère. Le plus nouveau spectacle. Le kangourou boxeur<br />
<b>Artist:</b> F Appel (lithographer)<br />
<b>Date: </b>1895<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15478517829" title="original's Huline Brother's (courtesy BNF)"><img alt="19th cent. french music-hall poster" height="716" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3939/15478517829_34ac52cea9_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<b>Title: </b>Folies-Bergère...Tous les soirs... original's... Huline Brother's <br />
<b>Artist: </b>Charles Levy<br />
<b>Date: </b>1888<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15641410646" title="Le Capitaine Costentenus (courtesy BNF)"><img alt="19th cent. french music-hall poster" height="654" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3955/15641410646_2303557b4b_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<b>Title: </b>Folies-Bergère. Le Capitaine Costentenus<br />
<b>Artist: </b>F Appel (lithographer) <br />
<b>Date: </b>1895<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15641407766" title="Les Selbinis, famille de vélocipédistes (courtesy BNF)"><img alt="19th cent. french music-hall poster - family of bicycle trick riders" height="786" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7479/15641407766_716840a4f5_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<b>Title: </b>Folies-Bergère. Les Selbinis, famille de vélocipédistes<br />
<b>Artist: </b>F Appel<br />
<b>Date: </b>1887<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15044416074" title="Tous les soirs G. Lockart et ses éléphants (courtesy BNF)"><img alt="19th cent. french music-hall poster - an elephant act" height="762" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7553/15044416074_7a23c53a77_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<b>Title: </b>Folies-Bergère, tous les soirs G. Lockart et ses éléphants<br />
<b>Artist: </b>F Appel (lithographer)<br />
<b>Date: </b>1890<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15478986408" title="Le Spectre de Paganini (courtesy BNF)"><img alt="19th cent. french music-hall poster - sinister figure from Paganini" height="760" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7569/15478986408_409fc17656_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
Title: Folies Bergère : le Spectre de Paganini<br />
<b>Artist: </b>F Appel (lithographer)<br />
<b>Date: </b>1880<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15641411446" title="La famille birmane (courtesy BNF)"><img alt="19th cent. french music-hall poster" height="751" src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8273/15641411446_5c3a8b67b5_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<b>Title: </b>Folies-Bergère. Tous les soirs la famille birmane...<br />
<b>Artist: </b>F Appel (lithographer)<br />
<b>Date: </b>1890<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15665983362" title="Tous les soirs à 8 heures (courtesy BNF)"><img alt="19th cent. french music-hall poster" height="770" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3946/15665983362_e5ba262713_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<b>Title: </b>Tous les soirs à 8 heures. Folies Bergère, 32 rue Richer. O. Metra. Travaux de voltige, ballets, pantomimes, opérettes...<br />
<b>Artist: </b>Jules Chéret<br />
<b>Date: </b>1875<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15044398974" title="Les Griffith's Grand Succes (courtesy BNF)"><img alt="Les Griffith's Grand Succes" height="770" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7474/15044398974_84ace8fa73_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<b>Title: </b>Folies-Bergère...Les Griffith's...<br />
<b>Artist: </b>F Appel (lithographer)<br />
<b>Date: </b>1890<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15479007208" title="Lona Barrison (courtesy BNF)"><img alt="Lona Barrison" height="682" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7468/15479007208_d25889253e_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<b>Title: </b>Folies-Bergères. Lona Barrison <br />
<b>Artist: </b>Albert Guillaume<br />
<b>Date: </b>1897<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15045025133" title="Tous les soirs à 10 heures (courtesy BNF)"><img alt="Tous les soirs à 10 heures" height="752" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7502/15045025133_a4fb5ea43d_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<b>Title: </b>Folies-Bergère. Tous les soirs à 10 heures, (trapéziste sur un taureau)<br />
<b>Artist: </b>Emile Levy <br />
<b>Date: </b>1885<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15478520149" title="Les Trevally acrobates (courtesy BNF)"><img alt="Les Trevally acrobates" height="676" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7504/15478520149_71a92099df_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<b>Title: </b>Folies-Bergère. Les Trevally acrobates tous les soirs<br />
<b>Artist: </b>F Appel (lithographer)<br />
<b>Date: </b>1890<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15479006458" title="L'orchestre des éléphants (courtesy BNF)"><img alt="L'orchestre des éléphants" height="756" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7470/15479006458_0de6c1b1da_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<b>Title: </b>Folies Bergère tous les soirs... l'orchestre des éléphants de Sam Lockart<br />
<b>Artist: </b>F Appel (lithographer)<br />
<b>Date:</b> 1890<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15662454791" title="Les Chiens Sauteurs------- (courtesy BNF)"><img alt="Les Chiens Sauteurs-------" height="658" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7539/15662454791_409822a84c_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<b>Title: </b>Folies Bergère. Les Chiens sauteurs...<br />
<b>Artist: </b>Ateliers Chéret<br />
<b>Date: </b>1890<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15478518559" title="Nala Damajanti charmeuse hindoue (courtesy BNF)"><img alt="Nala Damajanti charmeuse hindoue" height="755" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3947/15478518559_3fd6355092_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<b>Title: </b>Folies-Bergère. Nala Damajanti charmeuse hindoue <br />
<b>Artist: </b>F Appel (lithographer)<br />
<b>Date: </b>1895<br />
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"The Folies Bergère is a cabaret music hall, located in Paris, France. Established in 1869, the house was at the height of its fame and popularity from the 1890s' Belle Époque through the 1920s' Années folles. The institution is still in business, and is always a strong symbol of French and Parisian life." [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folies_Berg%C3%A8re">W</a>]</blockquote>
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<li><a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/Search?ArianeWireIndex=index&f_typedoc=images&q=Folies+Berg%C3%A8re+affiche&p=1&lang=EN&y=0&x=0&n=50"><span style="font-size: large;">The digital library (Gallica) at Bibliothèque nationale de France has about 150 posters relating to the Folies-Bergère</span></a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.foliesbergere.com/">Folies Bergère official site</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folies_Berg%C3%A8re">Wikipedia on Folies Bergère</a>.</li>
<li>The images above were mildly colour boosted and some were slightly cropped.</li>
<li>This post first appeared on the <a href="http://bibliodyssey.com/">BibliOdyssey website</a>.</li>
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peacayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997731249622552311noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16631839.post-87233776102283337512014-10-04T01:00:00.001+10:002014-11-02T04:09:28.587+11:00Succulent Carrion<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"[S]till enjoying, though in the afternoon of life, a reasonable share of health and vigour, I am now ready to proceed to any part of the globe, to which your Majesty's commands direct me. Many are the portions of it that have not yet been fully explored by Botanists - all of them are equal to my choice. To extend the science of botany, to enrich the Royal Gardens at Kew, and to obey your Majesty's gracious commands, are the only objects of ambition that actuate the breast of Your Majesty's most humble, most dutiful, and most grateful Servant, FRANCIS MASSON." <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<a href="http://goo.gl/ndLLNg" title="dedication to Francis Masson's 'Stapelia Novae', 1796">source</a>) </span></blockquote>
The genus Stapelia (tribe: Stapeliae, family: Apocynaceae<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocynaceae" target="_blank">^</a>) consists of around forty low-growing, succulent plants from southern Africa. They may resemble cactus at times, but they are not related. The Stapeliads were a larger group back in the late 18th century when the illustrations below were first designed.<br />
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The main taxonomic characteristic in the 1790s was the extraordinary flower parts produced by most member species. In order to attract the blow flies that pollinate the flowers, many Stapelia species (and related/synonymous Orbea varietals) give off a stench of rotting flesh. The deceit is so effective that the flies lay eggs in the flowers, not realising there is no food to sustain emerging maggots.<br />
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"The hairy, oddly textured and coloured appearance of many Stapelia flowers has been claimed to resemble that of rotting meat, and this, coupled with their odour, has earned the most commonly grown members of the Stapelia genus the common name of 'carrion flowers'. [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stapelia" title="Wikipedia article on Stapelia">W</a>] </blockquote>
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"[..] named by Linnaeus after the 17th-century botanist Johannes van Stapel, there are about 100 species taking their common names both from the flower shape and the smell of dead meat designed to attract flies as pollinators." [<a href="http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/stapelia-genus-a-collection-of-original-4109206-details.aspx" title="2003 Christie's sale">C</a>]</blockquote>
The original sketches for the 1796 book <i>'Stapelia Novae'</i> are <u>not</u> seen below. Instead, in what may be a first for this site, - intentionally, at any rate - the hand-painted sketches from 1814 displayed here are reproductions based on the illustration plates published in a 1796 book, <i>'Stapelia Novae'</i>, by renowned plant-hunter, <b>Francis Masson</b>.<br />
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Customarily, the quest for illustrations to post here would centre around either the original drawings or their earliest appearance in published form. But only two original Masson drawings are said to have survived and the few random chromolithographic plates (that *I* have found<a href="http://www.doaks.org/library-archives/rare-book-collection/rare-books/botany-empire/stapeliae-novae-or-a-collection-of-several-new-species-of-that-genus-discovered-in-the-interior-parts-of-africa" target="_blank" title="Dumbarton Oaks has 6 illustrations on view">^</a>) from <i>'Stapelia Novae'</i> online are of variable quality. However, the meticulous watercolour studies below by the young HL Wendland, after Masson's designs, are impressive in their own right.<br />
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These images are slightly colour-boosted and have been modestly background cleaned of spots and age-related stains.<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15028440609" title="Stapelia ambigua (via Lower Saxony Heritage)"><img alt="watercolour sketch of Stapelia plant" height="666" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3900/15028440609_f56e559a3a_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<b><i>Stapelia ambigua</i></b></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15028436699" title="Stapelia divaricata (via Lower Saxony Heritage)"><img alt="watercolour sketch: Stapelia divaricata" height="665" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3868/15028436699_5b4ac663f5_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<b><i>Stapelia divaricata</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Stapelia reticulata</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Stapelia pedunculata</i></b></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15215230275" title="Stapelia ciliata (via Lower Saxony Heritage)"><img alt="botanical watercolour sketch" height="668" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5576/15215230275_8d97d97739_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<b><i>Stapelia ciliata</i></b></div>
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"I sailed for the Cape [with Cook aboard HMS Resolution] in the beginning of 1772, and remained there two years and a half. ... In the year 1786 I was sent out a second time to the Cape, and remained there near ten years, in which time I had opportunities more minutely to search that great tract of country; the various collections I have sent back from thence to Kew Gardens have been cultivated with ... much success... Two species only of Stapelia were heretofore described by botanists; the genus now promises a numerous harvest of species. In my various journeys through the deserts I have collected about forty, and these I humbly present to the lovers of Botany." </blockquote>
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[Masson in the Introduction to <i>'<b>Stapelia Novae</b>'</i>].</blockquote>
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<b><i>Stapelia gordoni</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Stapelia glanduliflora</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Stapelia asterias</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Stapelia acuminata</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Stapelia campanulata</i></b></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/15212157561" title="Stapelia irrorata (via Lower Saxony Heritage)"><img alt="watercolour sketch" height="674" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3854/15212157561_cd93cd9a13_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<b><i>Stapelia irrorata</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Stapelia vetula</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Stapelia sororia</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Stapelia gemmiflora</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Stapelia mixta</i></b></div>
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Famed botanist, Joseph Banks, returned to England in 1772 after a world voyage with Captain Cook. Banks was appointed Director of London's Kew Royal Botanical Gardens and was in close contact with his friend, King George III, a passionate gardener himself, who even maintained a residence at Kew. The King wanted to improve Kew's reputation in Europe and to that end, Banks sought out a Kew gardener to volunteer for a new role as Kew Gardens' first plant-hunter. <br />
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The successful applicant for the job was one <b>Francis Masson</b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(1741-1805)</span> who had left Aberdeen in Scotland for a job as an under-gardener at Kew RBG when he was 19 years old. As the new plant-hunter, Masson was ordered by the Admiralty to join the first leg of Captain Cook's 2nd voyage of discovery aboard HMS Resolution which set sail for South Africa in 1772. This would be the beginning of his 33 year tenure as the official Kew Gardens plant-hunter (during which time he collected in excess of 1000 plants for Banks and Kew).<br />
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"Masson immediately embarked on a two month expedition into the interior, taking in the Stellenbosch and the Hottentot Holland Mountains. Sometimes working with Swedish Botanist Carl Thunberg and sometimes alone, Masson spent amost three years searching out new species of plants in South Africa. By the time he returned to Kew in 1775 he had sent back over 500 previously unknown plant species." [<a href="http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/m/francismasson.html" target="_blank" title="Undiscovered Scotland site">source</a>]</blockquote>
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"After exploring the Cape and working quietly at Kew for several years, Masson returned to plant hunting. In the late 1770s, he traveled to Madeira, the Canaries, the Azores, and Teneriffe before moving on to the West Indies. In the early 1780s, Masson sent back plants from Portugal, Spain, and finally North Africa. He endured numerous difficulties, including being caught in the crosshairs of a battle, a hurricane that destroyed all of his specimens, and raids by privateers. He began the winter of 1805 in Montreal, where he succumbed to the extreme cold of the Canadian winter at the age of sixty-five. By the end of his life, Masson had managed to introduce more than a thousand species of plants to Britain." [<a href="http://www.doaks.org/library-archives/library/library-exhibitions/botany-of-empire/botanical-personalities/stapeliae-novae-or-a-collection-of-several-new-species-of-that-genus-discovered-in-the-interior-parts-of-africa" title="Dumbarton Oaks">source</a>]</blockquote>
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"Although he did not have a strong education and published little, Masson established a solid reputation. [..H]e was intelligent, observant, and a born traveller. In the obituary of this “mild, gentle, and unassuming” man, the Montreal Gazette noted that “travellers who occasionally met him in remote countries . . . and men of science that knew his unremitting botanical labours and could estimate his talents, bear equal testimony of his merits and their writings incontestably evince his very uncommon success.”" [<a href="http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/masson_francis_5E.html" title="Dictionary of Canadian Biography">source</a>]</blockquote>
A 23 year old German from a family of botanists produced the illustrations of succulents seen above in 1814. Heinrich Rudolf (HR) Wendland <span style="font-size: x-small;">(1791-1867)</span> was doing an apprenticeship at Vienna's Botanical Gardens at the time and had an interest in exotic plants. He would pursue a career in botanical research and publish a number of papers on Acacia species. Wendland's watercolour sketches of carrion flowers were based on the chromolithographs published in Francis Masson's 1796 book. Wendland's collection of sketches is even bound with a hand-written reproduction of Masson's title page.<br />
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<li><a href="http://kulturerbe.niedersachsen.de/viewer/suche/-/Stapeliae%20novae%20or%20A.%20Collection%20of/1/-/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The collection of HR Wendland sketches after Masson's designs are hosted by the Cultural Heritage of Lower Saxony portal</span></b></a>. [direct to owner's site: <a href="http://digitale-sammlung....de/resolver?id=00052391" target="_blank">Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek</a>]</li>
<li>A full version of <i><a href="http://goo.gl/Y1sssr" target="_blank">'Stapeliae Novae: or, a Collection of Several New Species of that Genus; Discovered in the Interior Parts of Africa'</a></i> by Francis Masson is available via Google Books, but the illustration quality is worse than terrible. There's possibly another version at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Madrid <a href="http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/ing/Libro.php?Libro=5380" target="_blank">here</a>, but I haven't been able to make any pages appear on my monitor with Chrome.</li>
<li><a href="http://goo.gl/fWzVv3" target="_blank">A biography of Francis Masson constitutes Chapter 8</a> of <i>'The Zoological Exploration of Southern Africa 1650-1790'</i> by L. C. Rookmaaker, 1989 </li>
<li><a href="http://www.doaks.org/library-archives/library/library-exhibitions/botany-of-empire/botanical-personalities/stapeliae-novae-or-a-collection-of-several-new-species-of-that-genus-discovered-in-the-interior-parts-of-africa" target="_blank">Francis Masson page</a> (<a href="http://www.doaks.org/library-archives/rare-book-collection/rare-books/botany-empire/stapeliae-novae-or-a-collection-of-several-new-species-of-that-genus-discovered-in-the-interior-parts-of-africa" target="_blank">also</a>) at the wonderful Dumbarton Oaks exhibition: <a href="http://www.doaks.org/library-archives/library/library-exhibitions/botany-of-empire" target="_blank">The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century</a>.</li>
<li>Christie's auction entries: <a href="http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/books-manuscripts/masson-francis-stapeliae-novae-or-a-5797551-details.aspx" target="_blank">one</a>, <a href="http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/stapelia-genus-a-collection-of-original-4109206-details.aspx" target="_blank">two</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/masson_francis_5E.html" target="_blank">Francis Masson at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography</a>.</li>
<li>Masson biographies: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Masson" target="_blank">one</a>, <a href="http://www.explorersgarden.com/explorers-garden/plant-hunter-biogs/francis-masson.html" target="_blank">two</a>, <a href="http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/m/francismasson.html" target="_blank">three</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://amzn.to/ZhNOOS" target="_blank" title="Amazon search query on 'Francis Masson Stapelia'">Books featuring Masson & his <i>'Stapelia Novae'</i></a>.</li>
<li>PlantExplorers on <a href="https://www.plantexplorers.com/explorers/botanical-gardens/royal-botanical-gardens-kew.htm" target="_blank">Kew</a>.</li>
<li>Orbea pages: <a href="http://www.plantzafrica.com/plantnop/orbea.htm" target="_blank">one</a>, <a href="http://mrbrownthumb.blogspot.com.au/2007/08/orbea-variegata-starfish-cactus-toad.html" target="_blank">two</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.stapeliads.info/serv/core.s3?action=page::;doc=a_the_stapeliae" target="_blank">The Stapeliae</a> at <a href="http://www.stapeliads.info/" target="_blank">Stapeliads</a>.</li>
<li>HL Wendland at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Wendland" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>.</li>
<li>A Masson-collected plant in 2009: *<a href="http://www.kew.org/press/cycad.html" target="_blank">Ancient cycad, the King of Kew's Palm House, gets a new home</a>*.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.kew.org/" target="_blank">Kew Royal Botanical Gardens</a>.</li>
<li>This post first appeared on the <a href="http://bibliodyssey.com/" target="_blank">BibliOdyssey website</a>.</li>
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It is well that there are palaces of peace<br />
And discipline and dreaming and desire,<br />
Lest we forget our heritage and cease<br />
The Spirit’s work — to hunger and aspire:<br />
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Lest we forget that we were born divine,<br />
Now tangled in red battle’s animal net,<br />
Murder the work and lust the anodyne,<br />
Pains of the beast 'gainst bestial solace set.<br />
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But this shall never be: to us remains<br />
One city that has nothing of the beast,<br />
That was not built for gross, material gains,<br />
Sharp, wolfish power or empire’s glutted feast.<br />
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We are not wholly brute. To us remains<br />
A clean, sweet city lulled by ancient streams,<br />
A place of visions and of loosening chains,<br />
A refuge of the elect, a tower of dreams.<br />
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She was not builded out of common stone<br />
But out of all men’s yearning and all prayer<br />
That she might live, eternally our own,<br />
The Spirit’s stronghold — barred against despair.<br />
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<u>C. S. Lewis' poem <i><b>Oxford</b></i></u><br />
<u>published in <i>'Spirits in Bondage' </i></u><br />
<u>in 1919 under the pseudonym, Clive Davis</u> <span style="font-size: x-small;">[<a href="http://allpoetry.com/Oxford" title="allpoetry.com/oxford">via</a>]</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;"><i><b>'Oxonia Illustrata'</b></i> consists of about 40+ engraved plates of Oxford University colleges, buildings, grounds and maps, as produced by the artist David Loggan in 1675. A sampling from two different editions are shown below.</span><br />
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The lighter, double-page images below were spliced -<span style="font-size: x-small;"> and <i>'massaged'</i> </span>- together from separate individual page files with differing magnifications, so apologies for any apparent anomalies in appearance. The brown or slightly darker illustrations were made available for download from another host (Folger) as full, decent-sized images, but can be seen at very high resolution on their <a href="http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/view/search?QuickSearchA=QuickSearchA&q=%3D%22Loggan%2C+David%2C+1635-1700%3F%22&sort=Call_Number%2CAuthor%2CCD_Title%2CImprint&search=Search" target="_blank" title="Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC - search on 'David Loggan'">site</a>.<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14766602927" title="The Inside of the Divinite School"><img alt="High arched interior of Oxford University building, 17th century" height="444" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3887/14766602927_eab9c41e4c_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<b>Interior of the Divinity School</b></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14766605467" title="Sheldonian Theatre"><img alt="Sheldonian Theatre" height="438" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5576/14766605467_a16963b975_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<b>The Sheldonian Theatre</b></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14766526378" title="University College courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library"><img alt="Univserity College courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library" height="407" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3900/14766526378_126b2b2b96_z.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<b>University College</b> [<a href="http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/allCollections" title="Folger Shakespeare Library - search on: Loggan, David, 1635-1700">via</a>]</div>
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14950045701" title="University College"><img alt="University College" height="388" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3890/14950045701_e90ea8da88_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<b>University College</b></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14766478720" title="The Conservatory for Evergreens courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library"><img alt="The Conservatory for Evergreens courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library" height="456" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3906/14766478720_37a26e6ae6_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<b>The Conservatory for Evergreens</b> [<a href="http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/allCollections" title="Folger Shakespeare Library - search on: Loggan, David, 1635-1700">via</a>]</div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14766541738" title="Hortus Botanicus"><img alt="Hortus Botanicus" height="435" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3887/14766541738_2fafcda4eb_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<b>Hortus Botanicus</b></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14766534968" title="Prospectus Oxoniae Meridionalis"><img alt="Prospectus Oxoniae Meridionalis" height="379" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5591/14766534968_d0359f86ec_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<b>Prospectus Oxoniae Meridionalis</b></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14950055391" title="Oxoniae Prospectus"><img alt="Oxoniae Prospectus" height="393" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3916/14950055391_ae4ecc4ce2_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<b>Map of Oxford University & environs</b></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14953162645" title="Jesus College courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library"><img alt="Jesus College courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library" height="405" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3885/14953162645_5d99097f2b_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a><br />
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<b>Jesus College</b> [<a href="http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/allCollections" title="Folger Shakespeare Library - search on: Loggan, David, 1635-1700">via</a>]</div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14766478888" title="Habitus Academici"><img alt="Habitus Academici" height="412" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3925/14766478888_66847bccf1_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<b>Academic garments</b></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14766553307" title="Frontispiece - Bodleian Library"><img alt="Frontispiece - Bodleian Library" height="403" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5574/14766553307_8bd4cec49a_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<b>Frontispiece - Bodleian Library</b></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14774152497" title="Bodleian Library interior prospectus"><img alt="Bodleian Library interior prospectus" height="380" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5552/14774152497_2baf07edb0_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<b>Bodleian Library - interior scenes</b></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14950000081" title="Exeter College courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library"><img alt="Exeter College courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library" height="418" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5575/14950000081_1eb909d2d7_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<b>Exeter College</b> [<a href="http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/allCollections" title="Folger Shakespeare Library - search on: Loggan, David, 1635-1700">via</a>]</div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14953106515" title="Corpus Christi College"><img alt="Corpus Christi College" height="380" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5585/14953106515_846b4a6a42_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<b>Corpus Christi College</b></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14766485888" title="Christ Church"><img alt="Christ Church" height="295" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3857/14766485888_e926b208e1_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<b>Christ Church</b></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14953112105" title="Canterbury Quadrangle, St John's College"><img alt="Canterbury Quadrangle, St John's College" height="325" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3888/14953112105_c59a70cdf9_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<b>Canterbury Quadrangle, St John's College</b></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14766562177" title="Brasenose College courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library"><img alt="Brasenose College courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library" height="376" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3861/14766562177_627d663f32_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<b>Brasenose College</b> [<a href="http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/allCollections" title="Folger Shakespeare Library - search on: Loggan, David, 1635-1700">via</a>]</div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14950008601" title="All Souls College"><img alt="All Souls College" height="383" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5576/14950008601_6d9f3c83b1_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<b>All Souls College</b></div>
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<b>David Loggan</b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(1634-1692)</span> was of Anglo-Scottish heritage but spent the first two of decades of his life in Danzig (Gdansk), Poland. He was fortunate enough to receive artistic training from a couple of leading lights of the print-art world in Willem Hondius<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Hondius" target="_blank">^</a> in Danzig and later, in Amsterdam, from Crispijn van de Passe<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_de_Passe_family" target="_blank">^</a>. <br />
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Loggan emigrated to England in about 1657 and settled in London. His speciality was engraving, but he originally made a name for himself because of a pencil sketch he produced of the Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell, just before Cromwell's death. Loggan gained further notoriety doing portraits of figures from the nobility (including King Charles II) as miniature graphite drawings on vellum, a style of the time known as plumbago<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumbago_drawing" target="_blank" title="Wikipedia article on plumbago drawing">^</a>. Chief among Loggan's other works from this period are an illustration plate of St Paul's Cathedral (1658), the engraved title page for <i>'The Book of Common Prayer'</i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Common_Prayer" target="_blank">^</a>(1662) and plates for William Dugale's <i>'Origines Judiciales'</i> (1666).<br />
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In 1665, Loggan left London because of the plague and settled in Oxfordshire, from where his wife's family originated. In the following years, Loggan became acquainted with (and sketched portraits of) Oxford University elites, including Elias Ashmole, founder of Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum, and John Fell, Dean of Christ Church and one of the founders of Oxford University Press. At one point, Loggan is also known to have sold a printing press to the university. <br />
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It was probably John Fell's influence that saw Loggan appointed Engraver to the University in 1669, and his first task was to prepare a couple of illustration plates of the newly built Sheldonian Theatre, where the university press was (first) housed. Loggan and his assistants are thought to have produced title pages and plates for some of the books coming out of the Oxford University Press during his tenure, and a 1674 book on academic robes is also attributed to Loggan and his team. <br />
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A commission was received by Loggan to prepare bird's-eye view engravings of Oxford University's colleges, halls and buildings, together with prospect maps. His renowned <i>'Oxonia Illustrata'</i> (1675) was intended to accompany Anthony Wood's <i>'The History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford'</i> (1674). In the late 1600s, distinguished visitors to Oxford University were presented with copies of both books. <br />
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"Influenced by the work of Wenceslas Hollar, Loggan's meticulously detailed views were the first accurate representation of all the buildings and gardens of the university, and they have been an invaluable quarry for historians, antiquaries, and topographers ever since."<sup>(1)</sup></blockquote>
Loggan returned to London, after <i>'Oxonia Illustrata'</i> was released, and let rooms to wealthy patrons. He also produced views of Cambridge University colleges, buildings and grounds and the resulting publication, <i>'Cantabrigia Illustrata'</i>, was published in 1690. Later, as his portrait-sketching business was in decline, Loggan tried to take up the new fashion of mezzotint engraving, but apparently he suffered from an eyesight problem and he ultimately died in debt, and with few possessions, in 1692.<br />
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<li><b><i><span style="font-size: large;">'Oxonia Illustrata'</span></i></b> is available online at: <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">[<b>1</b>]</span> <a href="http://www.rarebookroom.org/Control/logoxo/index.html" target="_blank">Rare Book Room</a>, in full and in Latin from the 1675 original <i style="font-size: small;">(I think)</i>, at modest resolution; and at <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">[<b>2</b>]</span> <a href="http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/view/search?QuickSearchA=QuickSearchA&q=%3D%22Loggan%2C+David%2C+1635-1700%3F%22&sort=Call_Number%2CAuthor%2CCD_Title%2CImprint&search=Search" target="_blank">Folger Shakespeare Library</a>, in part and in English, copied <span style="font-size: x-small;">[~1700?]</span> as smaller illustrations from Loggan's originals and which are available in a very high resolution viewing format.</li>
<li>The biographical summary above relies <i>very</i> heavily on the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry<sup>(1)</sup> for David Loggan, written by Geoffry Tyack<a href="http://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/geoffrey-tyack" target="_blank">^</a> of Oxford's Kellogg College [<a href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/16/101016945/" target="_blank" title="3 academic biographical articles requiring institutional access">via</a>].</li>
<li><a href="http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?search=sa&LinkID=mp07247&role=art" target="_blank">The National Portrait Gallery entry for David Loggan</a> includes a small biography and a number of his portraits.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.sandersofoxford.com/quicksearch?searchlast=David+Loggan" target="_blank">Sanders of Oxford has over 100 illustrations of or by David Loggan</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtour/" target="_blank">Virtual Tour of Oxford</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://blog.oup.com/2014/04/early-modern-publishing-podcast-history-oup/">An April 2014 OUP blog post: *New perspectives on the history of publishing*</a> features a <a href="http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/history-oxford-university-press">30min podcast interview with book historian, Ian Gadd</a>, about the history of the Oxford University Press.</li>
<li><a href="http://amzn.to/1ubZ9eW" title="Amazon"><i>'The History of Oxford University Press: Three-volume set'</i> Edited by Ian Gadd, Simon Elliot and W Roger Louis, 2014</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Loggan" target="_blank">David Loggan at Wikipedia</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.sothebys.com/en/search-results.html?keyword=oxonia" target="_blank">Sotheby's</a> / <a href="http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/searchresults.aspx?entry=oxonia&action=search&searchtype=u&searchFrom=header&searchSubmit=Search" target="_blank">Christie's</a> / <a href="http://www.heatons-of-tisbury.co.uk/loggan.htm" target="_blank">Heatons</a>.</li>
<li>Thanks to Karla, <a href="https://twitter.com/john_overholt" target="_blank">John</a> & <a href="https://twitter.com/wynkenhimself" target="_blank">Sarah</a>.</li>
<li>This is a placeholder for a future link to a full digital copy of <i>'Oxonia Illustrata'</i> that I hope appears one day online at the Oxford Digital Library <a href="http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk/" target="_blank">site</a>, where it belongs.</li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;">This post first appeared on the </span><a href="http://bibliodyssey.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #199d8e; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">BibliOdyssey website</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;">.</span></li>
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Each coat of arms<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms" target="_blank">^</a> has the corresponding family name printed <span style="font-size: x-small;">(in <i>some</i> swish, Art Nouveau-influenced fonts!)</span> on each illustration. Although only heraldic designs are shown below, the album actually consists of a brief calendar section, the series of heraldry illustrations, followed by short family histories.<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14688439488" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" title="Kalender (title page) [courtesy Estonia Nat. Library]"><img alt="Kalender (title page)" height="867" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3912/14688439488_b08eb7eb22_b.jpg" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14874721732" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" title="Aderkas (courtesy Estonia Nat. Library)"><img alt="Aderkas" height="924" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3845/14874721732_7e5767488f_b.jpg" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14871997591" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" title="Brackel (courtesy Estonia Nat. Library)"><img alt="Brackel" height="919" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3836/14871997591_63d090813f_b.jpg" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14871996401" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" title="Bremen (courtesy Estonia Nat. Library)"><img alt="Bremen" height="937" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5563/14871996401_40849bafe5_b.jpg" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14871992451" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" title="Fircks (courtesy Estonia Nat. Library)"><img alt="Fircks" height="924" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3868/14871992451_aa6ec118c6_b.jpg" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14688410829" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" title="Howen (courtesy Estonia Nat. Library)"><img alt="Howen" height="926" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5558/14688410829_943f30963e_b.jpg" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14688369020" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" title="Kopp (courtesy Estonia Nat. Library)"><img alt="Kopp" height="919" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5585/14688369020_0e16ec8a8d_b.jpg" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14688565797" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" title="Lieden (courtesy Estonia Nat. Library)"><img alt="Lieden" height="937" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5576/14688565797_4d06043e00_b.jpg" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14688564517" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" title="Lode (courtesy Estonia Nat. Library)"><img alt="Lode" height="916" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3888/14688564517_a321c4b949_b.jpg" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14872629784" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" title="Luddinghausen Wolff (courtesy Estonia Nat. Library)"><img alt="Luddinghausen Wolff" height="926" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5577/14872629784_2251772b5f_b.jpg" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14872029541" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" title="Maydell (courtesy Estonia Nat. Library)"><img alt="Maydell" height="926" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5571/14872029541_24eb489729_b.jpg" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14688478128" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" title="Meyendorff (courtesy Estonia Nat. Library)"><img alt="Meyendorff" height="919" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5564/14688478128_11a8a6d59b_b.jpg" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14688407560" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" title="Orgies-Rutenberg (courtesy Estonia Nat. Library)"><img alt="Orgies-Rutenberg" height="926" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3908/14688407560_44bd4147ed_b.jpg" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14688558907" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" title="Rosen (courtesy Estonia Nat. Library)"><img alt="Rosen" height="926" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3916/14688558907_eeb869ba1d_b.jpg" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14875077165" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" title="Rummel (courtesy Estonia Nat. Library)"><img alt="Rummel" height="926" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5555/14875077165_e15b7a035c_b.jpg" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14872622534" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" title="Stackelberg (courtesy Estonia Nat. Library)"><img alt="Stackelberg" height="924" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5585/14872622534_e9f3889955_b.jpg" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14852065036" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" title="Tiesenhausen (courtesy Estonia Nat. Library)"><img alt="Tiesenhausen" height="919" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3863/14852065036_9704a3b44c_b.jpg" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14852093786" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" title="Ungern (courtesy Estonia Nat. Library)"><img alt="Ungern" height="959" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5561/14852093786_b3b65d75d8_b.jpg" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14688527617" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" title="Bruhns publisher (courtesy Estonia Nat. Library)"><img alt="Bruhns publisher" height="842" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3891/14688527617_c561be5288_b.jpg" width="518" /></a><br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">"This publication [..] contains some two dozen coats and crests in colour of nobility of the Russian Baltic provinces, with short genealogical notices. The selection appears a representative one, and includes, among others less famous, such illustrious names as Rosen, Pahlen, Lieven, Wrangel, and Uexkhuell. The Pahlen-Koskull crest, Drie Schilkolben, is uncommon, and we do not remember another example of bulrushes as helm insignia.<br />
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The style of design is, of course, German ; but even for German work the drawing is extremely vigorous, and in some cases the directness of effect obtained is quite excellent, though here and there the detail has a tendency to woodenness (i.e., the fish in the Maydell coat), and the mantling is occasionally stiff. As chromo-xylography [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromoxylography">w</a>], too, the work is of great merit." <br />
[source: <a href="https://archive.org/details/genealogicalmaga5190unse">The Genealogical Magazine 1902</a>]</blockquote><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">"The Baltic Coat of Arms Calendar, published by the book and art dealer E. Bruhns in Riga and the Riga Art Institute [..] was only published for one year: 1902. Further issues were well planned initially, [but] were never realised. The signature on some leaves [with MK artist] was Martin Kortmann who worked temporarily after 1900 in Riga for the art institute. After 1905 he returned to Berlin. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">The vertical format calendar contains 24 Baltic Crests for families, namely: Lode, Tiesenhausens, von der Ropp, Buxhoewden, Brackelsberg, Meyendorff-Uexkuell, Pahlen-Koskull, Bremen, Lieven, Ungern-Sternberg, Wrangel, Aderkas, Rosen, Stackelberg, Luedinghausen called Wolff, Hahn, Orgies, gene. Rutenberg, Poll, Fircks, Manteuffel called. Zoege (Szöge), Foelkersam, Maydell, Rummel and Howen. Artistic representations of the act, who probably set a clear target for simplicity, although heraldic correct, but awkward and wooden, far removed from the artistic design of a sovereign Otto Hupp." <br />
[<a href="http://www.heraldik-leitfaden.de/Heraldik/seiten/wakal.htm" title="German site on Coats of Arms">source</a> (slightly paraphrased translation; last garbled bit left as is)]</blockquote><br />
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<a href="http://digar.nlib.ee/digar/show/?id=42026" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>'Baltischer Wappen-Calendar 1902'</i> (Baltic States Coats of Arms Calendar) published in Riga by E Bruhns with illustrations by M Kortmann is available online in its entirety via the National Digital Library of Estonia</span></a>. High resolution individual .tif files (50+Mb) are available.<br />
[The images above are smaller versions of those with some colour boosting and removal of handwriting from the cover page] Please visit the source <a href="http://digar.nlib.ee/digar/show/?id=42026" target="_blank">site</a> to see both the complete heraldry illustration series and the overall layout of the book/album. Note there is a thumbnail page icon in the header section: 'Indeks'.<br />
--<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms">Coat of Arms at Wikipedia</a>.<br />
--<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_states">Baltic States at Wikipedia</a>.<br />
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<b>Previous related on BibliOdyssey:</b><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"></div><ul><li><a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2013/01/armorial-nobiliaire.html">Armorial Nobiliaire</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2011/03/flagging-heraldry.html">Flagging Heraldry</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/01/insignia-nobilium.html">Insignia Nobilium</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/06/fisch-wappenbuch.html">The Fisch Wappenbuch</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com.au/2007/11/duke-dress-and-heraldry.html">Duke, Dress and Heraldry</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com.au/2007/03/wappenbuch.html">Bavarian Wappenbuch</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com.au/2005/10/heraldic-bookplates.html">Heraldic Bookplates</a>.</li>
</ul>This post first appeared on the <a href="http://bibliodyssey.com/">BibliOdyssey website</a>.peacayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997731249622552311noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16631839.post-41402223067133512992014-08-03T03:18:00.000+10:002014-08-13T02:54:21.739+10:00Swiss Fruit<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">An 1860s pomological manuscript documents</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">the varieties of pears (birensorte) and </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">apples (apfelsorte) unique to Switzerland</span></b></div><br />
Pomology is a branch of botany relating to the study and cultivation of fruit [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomology" site="Wikipedia article on pomology">W</a>]. I don't believe a post devoted to fruit drawings has ever appeared on BibliOdyssey. It's not for want of material; it's more about the general mediocrity of the genre. Pomological collections tend to be the poor orphan of the botanical world in terms of illustrative qualities. I've saved a lot of samples over the years, but could never quite generate enough enthusiasm to pull the trigger. Until today: this naturalistic and unpretentious set caught my eye. I like it. <span style="font-size: x-small;">[Yes, yes: it's all *in my opinion*. Being emperor and guardian of this site has its privileges.]</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14737829171" title="Birnensorte Winter-Dechantsbirne (Doyenné d'hiver) [v/ ethz.ch]"><img alt="Birnensorte Winter-Dechantsbirne (Doyenné d'hiver)" height="385" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3924/14737829171_8a58058802_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14554350738" title="Apfelsorte Weisser Winter Calvill (Calville blanc d'hiver, Calville blanche à côtes [v/ ethz.ch]"><img alt="Apfelsorte Weisser Winter Calvill (Calville blanc d'hiver, Calville blanche à côtes" height="381" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2899/14554350738_8e4c149056_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Apfelsorte Weisser Winter Calvill (Calville blanc d'hiver, Calville blanche à côtes</b></div><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14737830791" title="Apfelsorte Waldhöfler Holzapfel [v/ ethz.ch]"><img alt="Apfelsorte Waldhöfler Holzapfel" height="382" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5572/14737830791_9d94850246_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Apfelsorte Waldhöfler Holzapfel</b></div><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14740712792" title="Apfelsorte Schafnase (Naht-Apfel, Baarapfel von Wädensweil) [v/ ethz.ch]"><img alt="Apfelsorte Schafnase (Naht-Apfel, Baarapfel von Wädensweil)" height="382" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2933/14740712792_7b2d4f2532_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Apfelsorte Schafnase (Naht-Apfel, Baarapfel von Wädensweil</b></div><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14737831061" title="Apfelsorte Gaesdonker Reinette [v/ ethz.ch]"><img alt="Apfelsorte Gaesdonker Reinette" height="380" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2932/14737831061_16fb2a69a2_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Apfelsorte Gaesdonker Reinette</b></div><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14554338230" title="Apfelsorte Pariser Rambour Reinette (Reinette de Paris) [v/ ethz.ch]"><img alt="Apfelsorte Pariser Rambour Reinette (Reinette de Paris)" height="383" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5560/14554338230_bc76d29dda_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Apfelsorte Pariser Rambour Reinette (Reinette de Paris)</b></div><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14718001996" title="Apfelsorte Luikenapfel [v/ ethz.ch]"><img alt="Apfelsorte Luikenapfel" height="384" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3900/14718001996_c8c7a21c4a_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Apfelsorte Luikenapfel</b></div><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14718002196" title="Apfelsorte Hornussecher [v/ ethz.ch]"><img alt="Apfelsorte Hornussecher" height="380" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3862/14718002196_5f1668062e_z.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Apfelsorte Hornussecher</b></div><br />
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In mid-19th century Switzerland, the wider agricultural community - farmers and rural agricultural associations - recognised that fruit production was both an important local occupation and also a significant contributor to the national economy. Fruit-growing stakeholders wanted to safeguard the industry, and had been agitating for a long time in support of creating a scientific guide and visual record of all the fruit varieties in the country. The Swiss Agricultural Society commissioned an extensive and detailed review of the apple and pear varieties, grown in Switzerland, through a St Gallen publishing house.<br />
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A committee of gardeners, civil servants and the like was formed to direct the project in consultation with Swiss growers and provincial agricultural societies. They chose the varieties of fruit to include and advised how specimens could be collected. The illustrator (Salomon Bühlmeier) was tasked with sketching specific views of the fruits and the branch twigs on which they grew. The committee also guided the nature of the text that accompanied each of the illustrations when it was published: systematic and common names, geographical distribution, general fruit, flower and tree descriptions, details about growing seasons and harvesting, characteristics of the fruit varieties and how they could be prepared and used in the kitchen. The enterprise was supported by some unnamed pomologists and farming types, including, in particular, one <i>Herr Pfau-Schellenberg</i>.<br />
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Salomon Bühlmeier <span style="font-size: x-small;">(1814-1876)</span> was an academy trained artist who specialised in painting and etching and taught drawing in St Gallen when the pomological project came up. Between 1863 and 1872, Bühlmeier travelled the country contacting farmers and regional agricultural societies, and he produced an exhaustive study of Swiss apples and pears. His watercolour and pencil fruit and twig sketches were drawn life-size, and were turned into lithographs for publication in serial format. I believe the intention was for twice yearly instalments, each featuring five apples and five pears and the final books (a volume for each fruit) contained up to 200 fruit varieties in total <span style="font-size: x-small;">(presumably)</span>. <br />
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About 190 of Bühlmeier's actual sketches were donated to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. These charming artworks were digitised and uploaded only last year. So we are seeing the original drawings above and <i>not</i> the lithographic plates from the final publication (which was called, incidentally, <i>'Swiss Fruits'</i> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(1872)</span>, edited by the Swiss Agricultural Society). I saw commentary suggesting that <i>'Swiss Fruits'</i> was the first ever lithographic publication devoted to fruit species.<br />
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<ul><li><a href="http://www.e-manuscripta.ch/nav/content/781244?max=100" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Original pear and apple fruit sketches by Salomon Bühlmeier are owned by ETH-Bibliothek Zurich (the largest public sci-tech library in Switzerland) and hosted online via e-manuscripta.ch</span></b></a>. [the link goes to 191 original sketches by Bühlmeier in thumbnail format] {<a href="http://e-manuscripta.ch/">e-manuscripta.ch</a> homepage - "the digital platform for manuscript material from Swiss libraries and archives"}.</li>
<li><a href="http://blogs.ethz.ch/digital-collections/2013/11/08/schweizerische-obstsorten-eine-erhebung-von-1872-mit-wissenschaftlichen-zeichnungen-von-salomon-buhlmeier/" target="_blank">VIA the always interesting ETH-Bibliothek blog</a> [<a href="http://goo.gl/tjwPAk">Trans.</a>] (they link up both the Swiss libraries network catalogue entry plus a direct pdf download of a - what appears to be - photocopy quality of the final book text (I only saw the foreword) - through a German pomological book portal (<a href="http://pomologie.ub.tu-berlin.de/index.html" target="_blank">link</a>).</li>
<li>I am very grateful for the translation of that foreword by Maren H!</li>
<li>Previously: <a href="https://delicious.com/bibliodyssey/flora" target="_blank">flora</a> -- <a href="https://delicious.com/bibliodyssey/science" target="_blank">science</a>.</li>
<li>This post first appeared on the <a href="http://bibliodyssey.com/" target="_blank">BibliOdyssey website</a>.</li>
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peacayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997731249622552311noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16631839.post-2908966218491130122014-07-29T00:00:00.000+10:002014-07-29T00:01:08.461+10:00Taishō Posters<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;"><b>The images below are Japanese posters </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;"><b>from ~the first quarter of the 20th century.</b></span></div>
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"The Taishō period<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taish%C5%8D_period" target="_blank">^</a> (大正時代 Taishō jidai?), or Taishō era, is a period in the history of Japan dating from July 30, 1912, to December 25, 1926, coinciding with the reign of the Emperor Taishō". Some of the posters carry over to the early Shōwa era: Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito)<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dwa_period" target="_blank">^</a> reigned from 1926 to 1989.<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14564086138" title="Puraton mannenhitshu -- Puraton inki (Woman with an ink bottle) [via USC]"><img alt="commercial print of woman holding ink bottle" height="736" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2904/14564086138_da9e85f77f_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Title:</span></b> Puraton mannenhitshu: Puraton inki [Woman with an ink bottle]<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Description:</span></b> A woman holding an ink bottle. Nakayama Taiyodo. Platon ink and pen (プラトンインキ, プラトン万年筆).<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Subject (company):</span></b> Nakayama Taiyōdō; 中山太陽堂<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14778402913" title="Shinshin chinka Kattoru -- Cuttlefish (via USC)"><img alt="Japanese lithograph of Cuttlefish with typographic advertisement overlay" height="1417" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3896/14778402913_c0a5fc84da_h.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Title:</span></b> Shinshin chinka Kattoru = Cuttlefish [Cuttlefish] 新進珍菓カットル<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Description:</span></b> A cuttlefish. "Cuttle" or "Cuttle Fish" (a snack), Chishima-ya Shoten (千島屋商店).<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Subject (Company):</span></b> Snack foods<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14564298047" title="Nan'yo Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha -- Nanyo Yusen Kaisha -- South Sea Mail S. S. Co., Ltd. (Bird) [via USC]"><img alt="yellow bird of paradise lithograph advertising poster" height="770" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5569/14564298047_535096591f_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Title:</span></b> Nan'yō Yūsen Kabushiki Kaisha = Nanyo Yusen Kaisha = South Sea Mail S. S. Co., Ltd. [Bird]<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Description:</span></b> A tropical yellow bird flying over the ocean.<br />
<span style="color: purple;"><b>Subject (Company):</b></span> Nan'yō Yūsen Kabushiki Kaisha; 南洋郵船株式会社<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14563990708" title="Chochiku wa ne no gotoku, heiwa wa hana no gotoshi (Lillies) [via USC]"><img alt="illustration of stylised lillies as part of advertising poster for a Japanese bank" height="747" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5587/14563990708_d85c043f14_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Title:</span></b> Chochiku wa ne no gotoku, heiwa wa hana no gotoshi [Lillies] 貯蓄は根の如く, 平和は花の如し<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Description:</span></b> Chochiku, chokin (Savings)<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Subject (Company):</span></b> Japan. Teinshinshō; Japan. 逓信省<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14750431592" title="Kani_hoken_issunsaki_wa_yami_Candle a (via USC)"><img alt="stylised graphic poster featuring candle and words in Kanji script" height="736" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5562/14750431592_0516e55634_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Title:</span></b> Kan'i hoken: issunsaki wa yami [Candle] 簡易保險:一寸先は暗<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Description:</span></b> Kan'i Hoken (Postal life insurance).<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Subject (Company):</span></b> Japan. Teinshinshō; Japan. 逓信省<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14563985108" title="Kabushiki Kaisha Tokyo Tsukiji Kappan Seizosho -- The Tokyo Tsukiji Type Foundry, Ltd. (Goddess) [via USC]"><img alt="ukioy-e print in colour of woman in traditional Japanese costume walking, with small crowd behind watching her" height="1576" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3887/14563985108_1798750db4_h.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Title:</span></b> Kabushiki Kaisha Tōkyō Tsukiji Kappan Seizōsho = The Tokyo Tsukiji Type Foundry, Ltd. [Goddess] 株式會社東京築地活版製造所<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Description:</span></b> A goddess holding a musical instrument. Tokyo Tsukiji Type Foundry, Ltd. (東京築地活版製造所). Marked with "H" [Hirano, Tomiji 平野富二?].<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Subject (Company):</span></b> Foundries<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14564289837" title="Santo Tetsudo (Cranes) [via USC]"><img alt="Japanese colour print of coast beach with crane flying above - advertising poster" height="779" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3870/14564289837_c718f306ce_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Title:</span></b> Santō Tetsudō [Cranes] 山東鐵道<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Description:</span></b> Cranes flying over Shantung. Santo Tetsudo. Shantung Railway Administration in the Chintao Garrison Army. Marked with [Shantung Railway's logo?]. 青島守備軍民政部鉄道部.<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Subject (Company):</span></b> Railroad Companies<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14750733195" title="Osaka Shosen Kaisha -- Osaka Mercantile Steamship Co., Ltd. (Woman in red kimono) [via USC]"><img alt="lady in red kimono holding fan - Japanese steamship advertising poster" height="760" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2898/14750733195_6c915a5db6_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Title:</span></b> Osaka Shosen Kaisha = Osaka Mercantile Steamship Co., Ltd. [Woman in red kimono]<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Description:</span></b> Osaka Mercantile Steamship Co. Ltd. A woman in red kimono holding a fan. Marked with the company's symbol, a flag with a character "大."<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Subject (Company): </span></b>Ōsaka Shōsen Kabushiki Kaisha 大阪商船株式会社<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14755348551" title="Monbusho shusai Insatsu Bunka Tenrankai -- The Graphic Art Exposition (via USC)"><img alt="Japanese poster for graphic art exhibition 1920s - abstract face and typography" height="1374" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5559/14755348551_ad6246cc20_h.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Title:</span></b> Monbushō shusai Insatsu Bunka Tenrankai = The Graphic Art Exposition: kaiki Taishō jūnen kugatsu nijūgonichi yori jūgatsu nijūgonichi made = from 25th September to 25th October, 1921: kaijō Tōkyō Hongō Ocha no Mizu Tōkyō Hakubutsukan [Insatsu Bunka Tenrankai] 文部省主催印刷文化展覽會: 會期大正十年九月二十五日より十月廿五日まで: 會場東京本郷御茶之水東京博物舘<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Description:</span></b> Graphic Art Exposition - Insatsu Bunka Tenrankai, held at Tokyo Hakabutsukan, September 25 - October 25, 1921.<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Subject (Company):</span></b> Exhibitions / Tokyo<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14572080907" title="Kuko Hakurankai -- The First Aero Show (via USC)"><img alt="biplane illustration in Japanese advert, early 20th century" height="800" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5567/14572080907_9c8ae5a203_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="551" /></a><br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Title:</span></b> Kūkō Hakurankai = The First Aero Show: kaichō Danshaku Shigeno Kiyotake, shusai Kūkō Hakurankai Kumiai: kaijō Kyūshū Beppu Onsenjō, kaiki Taishō jūnen sangatsu jūgonichi yori gogatsu jūsannichi made [Airplane] 航空博覽會: 會長男爵滋野清武, 主催航空博覽會組合: 會場九州別府温泉場, 會期自大正十年三月十五日至五月十三日<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Description:</span></b> First Aero Show, held in Kyushu, March 15 - May 13, 1921, and chaired by Baron Shigeno Kiyotake (滋野清武).<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Subject (Company):</span></b> Shigeno, Kiyotake, 1882-1924 滋野清武, 1882-1924<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14747573041" title="Nippon Yusen Kaisha -- Japan Mail Steamship Co. (Three ukiyo-e women) [via USC]"><img alt="3 Japanese woman in kimonos at edge of beach near waves with ship in distance" height="786" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2930/14747573041_98824bb7e7_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Title:</span></b> Nippon Yusen Kaisha = Japan Mail Steamship Co. [Three ukiyo-e women]<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Description:</span></b> Three Ukiyoe women in kimono standing at the shore<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Subject (Company):</span></b> Nihon Yūsen Kabushiki Kaisha 日本郵船株式会社<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14750633905" title="Japan Tourist Bureau (Five-story pagoda) [via USC]"><img alt="colour printed poster of tall thin pagoda with tree and deer in foreground - tourist poster for Japan" height="751" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5582/14750633905_a9e5f17159_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Title:</span></b> Japan Tourist Bureau [Five-story pagoda]<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Description:</span></b> A deer, a pagoda, and pine trees.<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Subject (Company):</span></b> Nihon Kōtsu Kōsha Japan Tourist Bureau 日本交通公社 (Railroad Companies)<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14750328992" title="Dai Nippon Seito Kabushiki Kaisha (Woman in black kimono) [via USC]"><img alt="Japanese woman in kimono looking intently at us, the audience; opalescent face" height="777" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5588/14750328992_0597878e02_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Title:</span></b> Dai Nippon Seitō Kabushiki Kaisha [Woman in black kimono] 大日本製糖株式會社<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Description:</span></b> A woman in black kimono. Sugar refining company.<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Subject (Company):</span></b> Dai Nippon Seitō Kabushiki Kaisha; 大日本製糖株式会社<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14564283807" title="Tsuru no Tamago Sekken (White crane) [via USC]"><img alt="tall thin printed poster in colour dominated by crane standing on one leg" height="1146" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3844/14564283807_c3fb392010_h.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Title:</span></b> Tsuru no Tamago Sekken [White crane] 鶴之卵石鹼<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Description:</span></b> A white crane. Tsuru no Tamago Sekken (soap). Asai Shiten (浅井支店)<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Subject (Company):</span></b> Cosmetics--Manufacture<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14747474921" title="Asia via Honolulu from San Francisco to the Orient -- 5 great sister ships (Woman with an umbrella) [via USC]"><img alt="advertising poster about travel with traditional Japanese woman in kimono and umbrella off to one side" height="688" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2898/14747474921_17da14f1f0_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Title:</span></b> Asia via Honolulu from San Francisco to the Orient: 5 great sister ships [Woman with an umbrella]<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Description:</span></b> An American steamship company<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Subject (Company):</span></b> Pacific Mail Steamship Company<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14564082388" title="Tetsudoin Un'yukyoku (Crane) [via USC]"><img alt="poster: top half is crane with outstretched wings + bottom half has maps of Japan and Japanese locales" height="723" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2901/14564082388_9b176d4f8f_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Title:</span></b> Tetsudōin Un'yukyoku [Crane] 鐵道院運輸局<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Description:</span></b> A crane and railway maps of Japan. The Transportation Division of the Railway Bureau<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Subject (Company): </span></b>Japan. Tetsudōshō. Unʼyukyoku Japan. 鐡道省. ǂb 運輸局<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14748385794" title="Toyo Kisen Kaisha -- Oriental Steam-Ship Company (Woman with a fan) [via USC]"><img alt="poster in colour with young Japanese lady in head band holding open a fan with a ship silhouetted in the sun of a Japanese flag - advertising poster" height="776" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3877/14748385794_94477f6d38_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Title:</span></b> Toyo Kisen Kaisha = Oriental Steam-Ship Company [Woman with a fan]<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Description:</span></b> A woman in blue kimono holding a fan<br />
<b><span style="color: purple;">Subject (Company): </span></b>Tōyō Kisen Kabushiki Kaisha 東洋滊船株式會社<br />
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<a href="http://libguides.usc.edu/content.php?pid=38436&sid=3843059"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The University of Southern California's Digital Library display a series of early 20th century Japanese posters, contributed by USC's East Asian Library</span></b></a>.<br />
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The poster topics in the collection include: travel, Ministry of Communications, commercial products and companies, and expositions.<br />
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Thanks to Will C!<br />
This post first appeared on the <a href="http://bibliodyssey.com/" target="_blank">BibliOdyssey website</a>.peacayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997731249622552311noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16631839.post-32939081396023614702014-07-24T00:15:00.000+10:002014-07-29T23:26:31.315+10:00Le Bestiaire FabuleuxA mid-20th century collaboration between artists, poets and printers gave rise to a unique book of surrealistic creatures accompanied by complementary typographic art poems.<br />
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The original gouache designs of fabulous beasts were produced by Jean Lurçat, which inspired poems by Patrice de la Tour du Pin. The sketches were rendered as lithographs by Vairel Edmond and the poems were turned into calligrams<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calligram" target="_blank">*</a> by Jules-Dominique Morniroli. The book was printed/published in a limited edition by Maurice Darantiere at P. Gaudin in 1948.<br />
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At least a couple of the participants in this project became friends while working for the French underground during World War 2.<br />
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<i>"A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calligram">calligram</a> is a poem, phrase, or word in which the typeface, calligraphy or handwriting is arranged in a way that creates a visual image."</i></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><u>Previously</u>:</b> <a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com.au/2006/06/zoomorphic-calligraphy.html">Zoomorphic Calligraphy</a> || <a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2005/10/hebrew-micrography.html">Hebrew Micrography</a></span>.<br />
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<b>La Puce Cerf Volant</b></div>
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<b>La Tortu</b></div>
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<b>L'Araignée</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">ADDIT:</b> Poem transcription/translation by <a href="http://tororoshiru.blogspot.com/"><b>Rolland B</b></a>:<br />
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Araignée mangeuse de reflets danseurs<br />
Araignée cinéraire d’étoiles que nous saurons éteindre<br />
afin que notre ciel s’étende comme un suaire de toute vie<br />
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A l’infini tisseuse de constellations mortes<br />
sur les fosses passées et peut-être à venir<br />
de l’étroit fleuve à vivre, lumineuse<br />
pour je ne sais quelle cause<br />
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Probablement folle, elle tend ses filets<br />
aux mailles si fragiles que le rêve d’un rêve<br />
ne devrait pas s ‘y laisser prendre.<br />
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Spider, eater of dancing glimmers,<br />
burial urn for the stars we will manage to extinguish<br />
intending to make our skies into a shroud for anything once living,<br />
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infinitely weaving dead constellations<br />
over past and perhaps future graves<br />
in the narrow river of life,<br />
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glowing for some unknown reason,<br />
probably insane, thou keeps weaving thy nets<br />
so frail their links, the dream of a dream<br />
could not be caught in them.<br />
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<b>La Belle des Sables</b></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14505292017" title="Bestiaire Fabuleux - cover binding by Thérèse Moncey, 1950"><img alt="Bestiaire Fabuleux - cover binding" height="695" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3896/14505292017_8e8a226756_c.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
"This book of poems with accompanying gouaches <span style="font-size: x-small;">(opaque watercolors)</span> and calligrams <span style="font-size: x-small;">(figures made up of letters)</span> about fantastic beasts and imaginary animals was bound by Thérèse Moncey. It features an abstract, birdlike form designed by the binder and won the French Grand Prix for Bookbinding in 1950." [<a href="http://art.thewalters.org/detail/87716/bestiaire-fabuleux-1/" title="Walters Art Museum - it was this image that inspired this whole post">source</a>] The binding was made from calfskin, goatskin, and gold.<br />
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<b>La Puce Cerf Volant</b></div>
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<b>La Lamproie des Neiges</b></div>
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<b>Le Craporphée</b></div>
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<b>ADDIT:</b> Translation kindly supplied by <b>Alcebiades DM</b>:<br />
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He is the one lurking around<br />
From the pre-Human night<br />
Where we go<br />
the Heart unquietness,<br />
sometimes the Mind,<br />
often the Dream,<br />
And lead to the suffocating<br />
thick vases<br />
The invitation to pure beauty, <br />
and the promise<br />
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That all life can discover <br />
his musical note... <br />
Without him, relinking<br />
the blind fauna of deep shadows<br />
Indistinguishable to our eyes<br />
made to the Sun,<br />
With the Matters of Joy?<br />
Without Orpheus<br />
And his crystal seed,<br />
The blood will choke us all…<br />
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<b>Le Papillon Vert</b></div>
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<b>Le Serpent</b></div>
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<b>ADDIT:</b> Translation/Transcription kindly supplied by <a href="http://tororoshiru.blogspot.com/"><b>Rolland B</b></a>:<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">{I may get around to polishing the English, which is not Rolland's primary language}</span><br />
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Le serpent qui jadis donna son rythme au monde,<br />
serpent épousant toutes les vagues du temps<br />
dessinant les questions en s’enlaçant lui-même<br />
(illisible) les paradis<br />
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Quand il prit leur couleur aux quatre fleuves,<br />
son sifflement aux trilles du sang dans les oreilles,<br />
c’est donc de lui que nous renaquîmes<br />
et même sur les dunes silencieuses de la pensée, passer sans nom;<br />
J’entends cette promesse de vivre par mon absence.<br />
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The Serpent long ago gave its rhythm to the world,<br />
serpent following the waves of Time<br />
shaping the Questions by coiling round itself,<br />
( one word illegible) the Paradises,<br />
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As it borrowed its colors from the Four Rivers,<br />
and its hissing from the humming of the blood in the ears<br />
Thus, from it we are born again.<br />
Even on the silent dunes of Thought, it slides without a name.<br />
Even as I am absent, I can hear this promise of life,<br />
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"<b>Jean Lurçat</b> <small>(1892-1966)</small> was a French Expressionist/Surrealist artist born in Vosges. He was exposed to art as a young boy when his parents introduced him to the founder of the Ecole Nancy, Victor Prouve. He traveled to Paris when he was 20, enrolling at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and then the Academie Colarossi. Throughout his career, Lurçat would form a style of his own, derived from his travels through the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Middle East. His unique style had a primitive, native art feel and was composed of symbols and hieroglyphic-like imagery. Within this style, he created ceramics, paintings, tapestry and a number of other art pieces.</blockquote>
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It was in fact Lurçat's tapestry creations that brought him the most attention, and he is even often credited with bringing this age old art form back into fashion. He has been called the leading tapestry designer of the 20th century, and worked for the Aubusson factory creating his textile designs. During his lifetime, Lurçat also traveled to Spain and the Sahara where he was influenced to paint a number of Surrealist landscapes. He was only briefly associated with the Surrealist movement, as he experimented often with Expressionism and tribal art." [<a href="http://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/artists/lurcat.php">source</a>]</blockquote>
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"<b>Patrice de La Tour du Pin</b> <small>(1911–1975)</small> was a major French, Catholic poet of the mid-twentieth century. As a poet, he achieved fame for individual collections of poems as well as Une Somme de poésie, a three-volume multi-genred work he wrote and continually revised throughout his life. Late in his career, de La Tour du Pin distilled and collected his most powerful lyrical poems, written in the form of psalms, into Psaumes de tous mes temps. These psalms trace de La Tour du Pin’s combined interest in poetry and religion and articulate his struggle to find poetic authority and spiritual meaning in the midst of world war and modern tumult." [<a href="http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v9n2/poetry/de_la_tour_du_pin_p/index.shtml">source</a>]</blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.latourdupin.org/bestiaire.php"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">'Le Bestiaire Fabuleux'</span></b></i></a> consists of 14 lithographs of Lurçat's abstracted figures, the majority <span style="font-size: x-small;">(but not all!)</span> of which have been posted above. To see any omissions, you will have to visit the <a href="http://www.latourdupin.org/bestiaire.php">source site</a>. The images were uploaded in 2011 in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Patrice de la Tour du Pin's birth. It's a shame the images are only of a modest size, though the fabulous surreal animals mirrored by poetic calligrams make this book too unique a work to pass up for so minor a detraction. I saw no commentary about the poems' content and I decided to skip the opportunity to embarrass <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(like that would have been the first time)</span> myself with poor-to-partial translation guesses. If anyone can work out the gist or full meaning of the calligrams, please leave a comment or send me an email (gmail peacay).<br />
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<ul>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Lur%C3%A7at">Jean Lurçat at Wikipedia</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.artnet.fr/galeries/whitford-fine-art/artiste-jean-lur%C3%A7at/">An extensive chronology/biography of Lurçat</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/jean-lurcat">BBC bio of Lurçat</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O117440/chouette-de-bonne-esperance-print-lurcat-jean/"><i>'Chouette de Bonne Esperance'</i> at the V&A</a> (owl).</li>
<li><a href="http://www.quercy.net/hommes/jlurcat.html">Qui est Jean Lurçat</a>?</li>
<li><a href="http://www.whitfordfineart.com/artist/biography/343/jean_lur%C3%87at">Whitford Fine Art has a small bio and solo exhibition chronology</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.abebooks.co.uk/Bestiaire-fabuleux-TOUR-PIN-Patrice-Daranti%C3%A8re/10898896584/bd">AbeBooks listing of Lurçat's bestiary for >£700</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://amzn.to/1rAVOX5">Books by or about Lurçat at Amazon</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.bridgemanimages.com/en-US/search?filter_creator_id=13870&filter_searchoption_id=4&sort_order=best_relevance&item_num=1">Bridgeman Art Library has quite a good sampling of Lurçat works</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.vojtechblau.com/modern-tapestries/jean-lurcat-le-beastiare/">Jean Lurçat: <i>“Bestiaire Corail”</i></a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.landrucimetieres.fr/spip/spip.php?article3191">French cemetery site</a> has a few pictures; Lurçat has a grave marking of an artist.</li>
<li><a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_de_La_Tour_du_Pin">Patrice de la Tour du Pin at Wikipedia.Fr</a>.</li>
<li>This post first appeared on the <a href="http://bibliodyssey.com/" target="_blank">BibliOdyssey website</a>.</li>
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peacayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997731249622552311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16631839.post-24128413381508184652014-07-13T13:34:00.000+10:002014-07-14T02:12:59.248+10:00Erucarum OrtusThe illustrations below were designed by the German artist and naturalist, <b>Maria Sibylla Merian</b>. The plates were originally prepared for a mid-1670s book on the metamorphosis of caterpillars into butterflies. However, the scientific community of the time largely ignored Merian's work because it wasn't published in Latin, the formal language of science.<br />
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Some forty years later, Merian finally reworked and expanded this earlier book on European insects. Sadly, she died shortly before the completed book - in Latin, <i>finally</i> - was readied for publication in 1717 as <i>'Erucarum Ortus..'</i>. The full title of the book is said to translate as: <u>'The Miraculous Transformation and Unusual Flower-Food of Caterpillars'</u>. <br />
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Merian's portrayal of plants and insects in a semi-naturalistic way was something of a step forward in the world of scientific illustration. Many of her contemporaries 'arranged' the illustrated scenes to show man's domination over nature, or took liberties with embellishment to impress and dazzle the audience.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">"For her period, her work is scientifically accurate and she is considered by modern scholars to be one of the founders of entomology, the study of insects." [<a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pd/m/maria_sibylla_merian,_caiman.aspx" target="_blank" title="The British Museum">source</a>]</blockquote><i>'Erucarum Ortus'</i> features some 150 plates of butterflies, caterpillars, moths and other insects together with their associated plants. The book is divided into three sections and about half of the first section of illustrations - in <i>this</i> particular copy - has been enhanced with hand-colouring. The balance of engravings below were sampled from throughout the book. The opium poppy plate was cropped back to the engraving plate margin; all others were chopped off at the page edge. I haven't checked whether all the hand written species names on the book pages are correct or not.<br />
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(1st Latin Ed.) by German natural history illustrator, Maria Sibylla Merian c (via Bamberg State Library)"><img alt="historical science B+W + colour engravings-illustrations of butterflies, bees, moths + plants + flowers in-situ (1700s)" height="663" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3908/14420731937_615a53a1dd_c.jpg" width="518" /></a><br />
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(1st Latin Ed.) by German natural history illustrator, Maria Sibylla Merian (via Bamberg State Library)"><img alt="historical science B+W + colour engravings-illustrations of butterflies, bees, moths + plants + flowers in-situ (1700s)" height="662" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3888/14604128651_ed6531f884_c.jpg" width="518" /></a><br />
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(1st Latin Ed.) by German natural history illustrator, Maria Sibylla Merian -img g- (via Bamberg State Library)"><img alt="historical science B+W + colour engravings-illustrations of butterflies, bees, moths + plants + flowers in-situ (1700s)" height="672" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5562/14605284044_f0ffd35b54_c.jpg" width="518" /></a><br />
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(1st Latin Ed.) by German natural history illustrator, Maria Sibylla Merian -img p- (via Bamberg State Library)"><img alt="historical science B+W + colour engravings-illustrations of butterflies, bees, moths + plants + flowers in-situ (1700s)" height="668" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2940/14420729280_a25625beca_c.jpg" width="518" /></a><br />
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(1st Latin Ed.) by German natural history illustrator, Maria Sibylla Merian -img k- (via Bamberg State Library)"><img alt="historical science B+W + colour engravings-illustrations of butterflies, bees, moths + plants + flowers in-situ (1700s)" height="665" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2925/14420992857_dbe1742366_c.jpg" width="518" /></a><br />
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<blockquote>"Although the <i>'Erucarum Ortus'</i> appeared one year after her death, Merian was very much involved in its publication. From at least 1705 she had intended to issue her work on European insects in Latin and Dutch, completing it with a third part. Ill health at the end of her life delayed publication of the third part until just after her death, but the complete Latin edition followed only one year later." <span style="font-size: x-small;">[<a href="http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/books-manuscripts/merian-maria-sibylla-erucarum-ortus-alimentum-4987819-details.aspx" title="Christie's auction site">source</a>]</span></blockquote><br />
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(1st Latin Ed.) by German natural history illustrator, Maria Sibylla Merian (via Bamberg State Library)"><img alt="Erucarum ortus - Maria Sibylla Merian" height="661" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2905/14420724790_0d5596147c_c.jpg" width="518" /></a><br />
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<blockquote>'Among the most important works in her oeuvre is her work on the feeding and growth of European caterpillars ... because these volumes contain both illustrations and texts, they provide a wealth of insights into Merian's interests with respect to art and nature, the intentions she sought in her work and the public for whom that work was intended. A unique primary source of information about a baroque painter, [..] [<i>'Erucarum Ortus, Alimentum et Paradoxa Metamorphosis'</i>] is also an invaluable historical source as a document of the popularisation of natural history in the early Enlightenment period.' (Heidrun Ludwig, 'The Rapuenbuch. A popular natural history', in Maria Sibylla Merian 1647-1717 Artist and Naturalist 1998, p.53) <span style="font-size: x-small;">[<a href="http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/books-manuscripts/merian-maria-sibylla-erucarum-ortus-alimentum-5080969-details.aspx" title="Christie's auction site">source</a>]</span>.</blockquote><br />
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<blockquote>"Maria Sibylla Merian <span style="font-size: x-small;">(1647-1717)</span> was one of the greatest artist-naturalists of her time. From childhood she had been fascinated by the life cycles of butterflies, and she made a close study of their transformations. She became a flower-painter and teacher in Nuremberg, Frankfurt and Amsterdam." <span style="font-size: x-small;">[<a href="http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/microsites/amazingrarethings/maker.asp?exhibs=ARTmerian" title="Royal Collection Trust exhibition site">source</a>]</span></blockquote><blockquote>"In 1711 Maria suffered a stroke and although greatly disabled, continued her work for a further six years. she died in Amsterdam on 13th January, 1717. The register of deaths lists her as a pauper, but in spite of this she had her own grave. In the same year her daughter published for the first time all three parts of her mothers life's work under the title <i>'Erucarum Ortus Alimentum et Paradoxa Metamorphosis'</i> [..]</blockquote><blockquote>There are a number of versions of how the entire works of this extraordinary woman ended up in Russia. the most reliable record is that the works were purchased by Tsar Peter the Great, personally, during a visit to western Europe, only days before Merian's death in 1717. Upon the Tsar's death in 1725, the works were presented to the Academy of Sciences [in Germany] where they reside today." <span style="font-size: x-small;">[<a href="http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/MERIAN.html" title="U Alabama Merian bio from their ancient (in web terms) 4000 years of women in science portal">source</a>]</span></blockquote><ul><li><a href="http://www.nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:22-dtl-0000003150" target="_blank" title="Bamberg Library digital file"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>'Erucarum Ortus, Alimentum et Paradoxa Metamorphosis'</i> 1717 by Maria Sibylla Merian is available online from Staatsbibliothek Bamberg</span></a> - note the thumbnail view tab.</li>
<li>Alternatively, <a href="http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/toc/?PPN=PPN476830389" target="_blank" title="GDZ digital version of Merian's book"><i>'Erucarum Ortus'</i> is online at Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum (GDZ)</a> - the written sections are handily linked under species names, but I don't think the illustrations are as good.</li>
<li>Previously: <a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2005/10/surinam-metamorphosis.html">Surinam Insect Metamorphosis</a> & <a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2005/10/surinam-metamorphosis.html">Surinam Metamorphosis</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://amzn.to/1tEbN8A" target="_blank" title="search result on Amazon for 'Maria Sibylla Merian'">Works by or about Maria Sibylla Merian at Amazon</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Sibylla_Merian" target="_blank" title="biography of Maria Sibylla Merian">Wikipedia article</a>.</li>
<li>This post first appeared on the <a href="http://bibliodyssey.com/">BibliOdyssey website</a>.</li>
</ul>peacayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997731249622552311noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16631839.post-54579150272506924552014-05-30T00:38:00.003+10:002014-05-30T02:34:32.838+10:00The Decorative Use of WallpapersThese chromolithographs<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromolithography" title="Wikipedia article on chromolithography">*</a> come from a decorative arts book published in about 1910 <span style="font-size: x-small;">(or a little later)</span> called <i>'The Decorative Use of Wallpapers'.</i> The book gave homemakers help in visualising room arrangements and design possibilities using various contemporary wallpapers.<br />
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The author, E Owen Clark, and the publisher/printer, Goddard, Walker and Brown Ltd London and Hull, have scant mentions on the internet; and none of those relate to design or artistic publications. Their wallpaper book is a fairly upscale production, so maybe they all missed their true calling. It took me a while to warm up to the scenes, but I'm definitely a convert: I really like these illustrations and the print quality is excellent. <br />
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The interior design, book-buying public of the 1910s were apparently expected to be well-versed in the esoteric language of wallpaper styles (according to the Foreword). For the modern <i>ignoranti</i>, a few definitions may help when reading the author's plate descriptions below <span style="font-size: x-small;">(although, to be fair, all these terms are still in use today)</span>:<br />
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<b>Anaglypta</b> "refers to a range of paintable, textured wallcoverings made from paper or vinyl. It is produced on traditional paper and paste-the-wall substrates." <span style="font-size: x-small;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaglypta" title="Wikipedia article">W</a>]</span>.<br />
<b>Lignomur</b> is a preparation of embossed wood fibre pasteboard.<br />
<b>Lincrusta</b> is a deeply embossed, thick type of wallpaper made (in part) from linseed gel, which continues to dry and harden over many years. Think: Victorian buildings or, more recently, hotel foyers, bars and casinos etc.<br />
<b>Stile</b>: "Frame and panel construction, also called rail and stile, is a woodworking technique often used in the making of doors, wainscoting, and other decorative features for cabinets, furniture, and homes." <span style="font-size: x-small;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_and_panel" title="Wikipedia article">W</a>]</span>.<br />
<b>Frieze</b>: a broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration, near the ceiling.<br />
<b>Dado</b>: "is the lower part of a wall, below the dado rail and above the skirting board." <span style="font-size: x-small;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dado_(architecture)" target="_blank">W</a>]</span><br />
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All but one of the book's illustrations are displayed below <span style="font-size: x-small;">(I forgot to scan the <i>other</i> bathroom scene)</span>.<br />
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<i>"The chromo paper on which these illustrations are printed is manufactured and coated at our Orchard Mills, Darwen."</i> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Lancashire)</span><br />
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"The decorative schemes shewn here in the accompanying drawings have been produced with a view of demonstrating the possibilities of the artistic and intelligent use of wallpapers, rather than to advertise any particular pattern, and it is believed that they may be useful long after the actual designs shewn are obsolete.</blockquote>
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It is common knowledge that to choose a pattern from a book, away from the room in which it is to be used, is often disappointing, nor, indeed, is it possible for the public to judge the effect of a pattern **in situ** at all from a a strip often less than 18 inches square. It has, therefore, been thought advisable to prepare the schemes here given, to show the general effect of the various types of wallpapers now in use.</blockquote>
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Many of the plates are simply a happy combination of several papers. Thus - the Bathroom on page 19 is made up of a blue tile pattern varnished, with a stile of white crackle and a narrow border, an arrangement which can be carried out in a variety of ways with any suitable combination of papers, to fit any room which may have to be decorated. The Bedroom on page 19 is composed of a filling, with its 10.5 inch frieze used to form the walls into panels, and gives the impression of having been made to fit that particular room.</blockquote>
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These instances could be multiplied, but, the drawings speak for themselves, and the compilers will feel that their work was worth doing, if, it induces the Decorator to make the best possible use of the means within his reach, and so add an increased beauty to his work, and give more pleasure to his customer than is possible by simply taking so many rolls of wallpaper and with them covering the walls.</blockquote>
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Of the Relief Ceilings and Enrichments it seems unnecessary to speak, as the adaptability of Anaglypta, Lignomur, Lincrusta, and kindred productions, is well known wherever decoration is carried out, and patterns and devices can be had in such variety, that, it is possible to arrange them to fit any possible space which it may be necessary to enrich."</blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14259331065" title="The Decorative Uses of Wallpaper "><img alt="20th century wallpaper room design" height="347" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5514/14259331065_7020284dbb_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
The filling is a Chinese Chippendale pattern on rich brown ingrain with high relief anaglypta to spaces of any shape. The dado is suitable for treatment either as wood or plaster.<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14279492863" title="The Decorative Uses of Wallpaper 1 "><img alt="1910 wallpaper room design" height="346" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2906/14279492863_f0c98bae5a_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
High wainscot dado of lincrusta, showing oak grain. The stiles are fixed separately, and can be arranged in any form of panelling. The ceiling border is of anaglypta in high relief, and can be panelled at will. The upper wall is covered with an engraved wallpaper.<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14257258782" title="The Decorative Uses of Wallpaper 2 "><img alt="early 20th century wallpaper room design" height="346" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5508/14257258782_67aa229dc5_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
The walls are covered with an engraved textured wallpaper, with a cut-out frieze and border. The ceiling is of anaglypta.<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14259407685" title="The Decorative Uses of Wallpaper 3 "><img alt="1900s wallpaper room design" height="349" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5154/14259407685_4ac54b6188_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
The walls are decorated with a filling shewing a rich modern treatment of the lilac - with combined stile and border 7 inches wide - and can be made up in panels of any size. The ceiling is formed of a high relief anaglypta border which can be arranged in many ways.<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14257250402" title="The Decorative Uses of Wallpaper 4 "><img alt="20th century wallpaper room design" height="350" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5545/14257250402_5364d82c0d_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
The walls are panelled with black satin paper covered with pink almond blossom and twisted ribbon border and plain grey stiles. The ceiling is of "Adam" design in anaglypta of high relief, which can be adjusted to fit a ceiling of any shape.<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14259016664" title="The Decorative Uses of Wallpaper 5 "><img alt="wallpaper and room design)" height="340" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3707/14259016664_46242f1bbe_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
The walls are of rich flowered chintz paper with black stripes and plain frieze over. The ceiling is decorated with an adaptable high relief anaglypta of Louis XV design.<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14072816887" title="The Decorative Uses of Wallpaper 6 "><img alt="chromolithograph of early 20th century interior design idea using wallpaper" height="353" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2906/14072816887_bda767106d_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
The walls are panelled with a satinette paper of soft grey and pink roses with border and frieze to match. The stiles are of moire satinette. This decoration can be arranged in panels of varying proportion to fit any give wall. The ceiling of "Adam" design, adaptable to any space, is in high relief anaglypta.<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14259233154" title="The Decorative Uses of Wallpaper 7 "><img alt="20th century wallpaper decoration" height="349" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2897/14259233154_8e62d42238_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
The upper wall is of richly flowered paper, which may be of any depth, with plain stripes underneath and finished with narrow borders. The ceiling border is of high-relief anaglypta.<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14257459922" title="The Decorative Uses of Wallpaper 8 "><img alt="20th century wallpaper room decoration)" height="349" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5519/14257459922_3c1cf5bf6c_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
The walls are covered with a modern art trellis with flowers, and divided into panels by a combined stile and border 10.5 inches wide. The ceiling is of anaglypta in high relief. This <br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14072966718" title="The Decorative Uses of Wallpaper 9 "><img alt="wallpaper design 1910 in situ" height="350" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3794/14072966718_2b7370daa0_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
The walls are panelled with fine tapestry paper with borders and textured stiles, and plain frieze. The ceiling is of Georgian design in high relief anaglypta. This decoration is suitable for dining room or library.<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14072990968" title="The Decorative Uses of Wallpaper 10 "><img alt="interior design visualisation with wallpaper" height="354" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3728/14072990968_75cece079d_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
The upper walls are papered with a fine damask design, with dado and ceiling of high relief anaglypta. The dado is shown as plaster but might with equal fitness be treated as wood. The filling is equally suitable for hall or library.<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14259245814" title="The Decorative Uses of Wallpaper 11 "><img alt="decorative wallpaper 20th c." height="350" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5523/14259245814_31f1894696_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
Panelled walls of fine tapestry, with stiles and lincrusta mouldings. The ceiling beams are decorated with anaglypta borders copied from old English carvings. The frieze and ceiling spaces are filled with rough cast design in lignomur.<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14256302041" title="The Decorative Uses of Wallpaper 12 "><img alt="wallpaper design visualisation illustration" height="355" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5541/14256302041_bf53644c7c_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
The walls are decorated with plain striped ingrain, panelled with cut-out borders, which can be arranged at will. The frieze is plain, and the ceiling of high relief anaglypta.<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14256330171" title="The Decorative Uses of Wallpaper 13 "><img alt="20th century wallpaper room lithograph" height="349" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3684/14256330171_fd618a08cb_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
The walls of this bedroom are covered with a white satin striped paper, with rose border and moire satin stiles. The ceiling is of "Adam" design in anaglypta and is adjustable.<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14256326871" title="The Decorative Uses of Wallpaper 14 "><img alt="chromolithograph house interior with wallpaper" height="361" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3725/14256326871_96c4d49ca1_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
The panelled filling is all-over small flowers, with combined stile and border 7 inches wide. This scheme is capable of any adjustment in shape and size of the panels. The anaglypta ceiling is of high relief.<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14257495172" title="The Decorative Uses of Wallpaper 15 "><img alt="wallpaper decoration" height="349" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5275/14257495172_36539fe84c_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
The walls are of soft grey with stripes of sweet peas, with cut-out frieze used as a crown to the filling and also in frieze space.<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14073090577" title="The Decorative Uses of Wallpaper 16 "><img alt="room decorated with wallpaper" height="347" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2913/14073090577_ae59148010_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
The walls are simple diaper in satinette, with cut-out frieze and border, and plain band over. The ceiling border is of high relief anaglypta.<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14073009599" title="The Decorative Uses of Wallpaper 17 "><img alt="room design 1910 - decorated with wallpaper" height="348" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5553/14073009599_9fe224e209_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
The filling is of sweet peas on trellis, divided into panels by a 10.5 inch border, and capable of adaption to any size wall.<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14073083407" title="The Decorative Uses of Wallpaper 18 "><img alt="early 20th century room design" height="346" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3680/14073083407_a3ff196ac3_z.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
Panelled bathroom of plain blue varnished brick paper with stile of varnished crackle paper and narrow border. The ceiling has an anaglypta border.<br />
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<li><i><b>'The Decorative Use of Wallpapers'</b></i> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>c.</i> 1910 - according to the <a href="http://www.vandaimages.com/results.asp?image=2006AL7108-01&stockindexonline.com=1" target="_blank">V&A</a>)</span> belongs to the collection of Colin R who kindly allowed me to scan the book.</li>
<li>Thanks also to Gwyneth<a href="https://twitter.com/peatyg" target="_blank">^</a> & Will C.</li>
<li>This post first appeared on the <a href="http://bibliodyssey.com/" target="_blank">BibliOdyssey website</a>.</li>
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peacayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997731249622552311noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16631839.post-45768050671255549262014-05-12T14:40:00.000+10:002014-05-12T14:40:40.512+10:00Gould's Birds of Asia<blockquote>
"[John] Gould <span style="font-size: x-small;">(1804–1881) [<a href="http://australianmuseum.net.au/image/John-Gould-1860s/">photo</a>]</span>, one of the most prolific ornithological artists of the 19th century, had a romantic enthusiasm for winged creatures, as well as a passion for natural history and an impulse to catalog. Drawing on his outstanding scientific and artistic talents, he embarked on a series of projects that would eventually make him the leading publisher of ornithological illustrations in Victorian Britain. Gould’s unparalleled career spanned five decades, during which he produced a series of books depicting birds from all over the world." <span style="font-size: x-small;">[<a href="http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/classics/all/01089/facts.john_gould_the_family_of_toucans.htm">source</a>]</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">volumes of Gould's seven volume series on Asian birds.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14139178613" title="Syrnium ocellatum"><img alt="Gould natural history lithograph of owl on partial branch" height="849" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5579/14139178613_e6fae78a23_b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>species name:</u></span><i> Syrnium ocellatum</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>common name:</u></span> <b>Mottled Wood-Owl</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>locale:</u></span> NW India [<a href="http://avis.indianbiodiversity.org/nests-and-eggs-of-indian-birds-vol-iii-1890/mottled-wood-owl-syrnium-ocellatum.html" title="Indian Biodiversity">info</a>]</div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/13932459429" title="Phodilus badius"><img alt="SE Asian owl sketch by John Gould 19th century" height="843" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5497/13932459429_7b238ca86f_b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<i>Phodilus badius</i></div>
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<b>Oriental (or: Asian) Bay Owl</b></div>
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SE Asia [<a href="http://www.owlpages.com/owls.php?genus=Phodilus&species=badius" title="The Owl Pages">info</a>]</div>
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<i>Sitta formosa</i></div>
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<b>Beautiful Nuthatch </b></div>
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Bhutan, Bangladesh, Burma [<a href="http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=6903" title="Birdlife International">info</a>]</div>
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Now: <i>Falco biarmicus</i></div>
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<b>Lanner Falcon</b></div>
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"breeds in Africa, southeast Europe and just into Asia" [<a href="http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Falco_biarmicus/" title="Animal Diversity Web">info</a>]</div>
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Now: <i>Terpsiphone paradisi</i></div>
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<b>Asian Paradise Flycatcher</b></div>
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Malaysia, Burma, India [<a href="http://ibc.lynxeds.com/species/asian-paradise-flycatcher-terpsiphone-paradisi" title="The Internet Bird Collection">info</a>]</div>
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<i>Psarisomus dalhousie</i></div>
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<b>Long-Tailed Broadbill</b></div>
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SE Asia, India, Himalayas [<a href="http://twearth.com/species/long-tailed-broadbill" title="Twearth.com">info</a>]</div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14092102686" title="Eurylaimus ochromalus"><img 19th="" alt="trio" broadbill="" by="" cent.="" colourful="" gould="" height="826" in="" j.="" litho="" of="" specimens="" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5512/14092102686_40c03e5a3b_b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<i>Eurylaimus ochromalus</i></div>
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Black and Yellow Broadbill</div>
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Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand [<a href="http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=4032" title="International Bird Life">info</a>]</div>
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<strike>Oriolus broderipi</strike> (deprecated)</div>
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Now: <i>Oriolus chinensis</i></div>
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<b>Black-Naped Oriole</b></div>
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Phillipines, SE Asia, India [<a href="http://ibc.lynxeds.com/species/black-naped-oriole-oriolus-chinensis" title="The Internet Bird Collection">info</a>]</div>
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<i>Melanochlora sultanea</i></div>
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<b>Sultan Tit</b></div>
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Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia [<a href="http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=7067" title="Birdlife International">info</a>]</div>
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<strike>Harpactes hodgsoni</strike> (deprecated)</div>
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Now: <i>Harpactes erythrocephalus</i></div>
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<b>Red-Headed Trogon</b></div>
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India, Nepal, Bhutan & SE Asia [<a href="http://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?avibaseid=B8B765D8D01C96E7" title="Avibase">info</a>]</div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14135310603" title="Actenoides hombroni"><img alt="lithograph of blue/brown/green kingfisher sitting on a rock with a lizard in its beak" height="830" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5190/14135310603_53e7faa1e5_b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<i>Actenoides hombroni</i></div>
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<b>Hombron's (or Blue-Capped) Kingfisher</b></div>
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Mindinao Island, The Philippines [<a href="http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=1138" title="birdlife.org">info</a>]</div>
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<strike>Halcyon omnicolor</strike> (deprecated)</div>
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Now: <i>Todiramphus chloris</i> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(best guess)</span></div>
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<b>Collared Kingfisher</b></div>
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Asia, Australasia [<a href="http://carolinabirds.org/HTML/AS_Corac_Kingfisher.htm" title="Carolina Birds on Asian River Kingfishers">info</a>]</div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14135329283" title="Coracias indica"><img alt="upright grey & blue Asian bird on a tree stump in book illustration 1800s" height="824" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2908/14135329283_7c35f874eb_b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<i>Coracias indica</i></div>
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AKA <i>Coracias indica</i> AKA <i>Corvus benghalensis</i></div>
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<b>Indian Roller</b></div>
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Far west to SE Asia [<a href="http://avis.indianbiodiversity.org/nests-and-eggs-of-indian-birds-vol-iii-1890/indian-roller-coracias-indica.html" title="Avian info service in Indian biodiversity site">info</a>]</div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/13928596119" title="Nyctiornis amictus"><img alt="lithographic sketch of two colourful birds of same species; one perched in tree, the other, hovering nearby, with an insect in its beak" height="820" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7367/13928596119_86866c85d1_b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<i>Nyctiornis amictus</i></div>
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<b>Red-bearded Bee-eater</b></div>
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SE Asia [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyctyornis" title="Wikipedia">info</a>]</div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14111977221" title="Nectarinia ignicauda"><img alt="book illustration by J Gould of 2 colourful birds and a plain 3rd bird active in tree branch" height="821" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2922/14111977221_4ee72a1001_b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<strike>Nectarinia ignicauda</strike> (deprecated)</div>
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<i>Aethopyga ignicauda</i></div>
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<b>Fire-Tailed Sunbird </b></div>
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N India / Himalayas [<a href="http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/22718100/0" title="International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List for Endangered Species">info</a>]</div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/13932474440" title="Pericrocotus solaris"><img alt="bright orange & bright yellow birds in flight actively trying to catch insects around flowering tree branch" height="817" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5073/13932474440_e18dc1e466_b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<i>Pericrocotus solaris</i></div>
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<b>Grey-Chinned Minivet</b></div>
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Bangladesh across to China, Thailand and Vietnam [<a href="http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=5976" title="Birdlife International">info</a>]</div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/13928636720" title="Gyps bengalensis"><img alt="book sketch of large roosting black vulture with white shoulders" height="816" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2897/13928636720_3aa1285e53_b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<i>Gyps bengalensi</i></div>
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<b>White-Rumped Vulture</b></div>
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Indian Sub-Continent and some East Asia [<a href="http://globalraptors.org/grin/SpeciesResults.asp?specID=8262" title="The Peregrine Fund - Global Raptor Information Network">info</a>]</div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14095935686" title="Otogyps calvus"><img alt="ugly great black plumed vulture on branch with two more vultures in the background" height="819" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5512/14095935686_9e4077137b_b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<i>Otogyps calvus</i></div>
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<b>Red-Headed Vulture</b></div>
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Indian Sub-Continent and some East Asia [<a href="http://www.arkive.org/red-headed-vulture/sarcogyps-calvus/" title="ARKive: virtual conservation network">info</a>]</div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14092104306" title="Cecropis hyperythra"><img alt="2 blue/brown short-winged birds in book illustration lithograph, in flight, chasing insects" height="820" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5233/14092104306_5f431fc2f9_b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<i>Cecropis hyperythra</i></div>
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<b>Sri Lanka Swallow</b></div>
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Endemic to Sri Lanka</div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/14116049842" title="Parus rubidiventris"><img alt="litho of 2 small brown black white birds on pine tree branch" height="835" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7066/14116049842_5e3d2c8ef1_b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="518" /></a><br />
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<i>Parus rubidiventris</i></div>
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<b>Rufous-vented Tit</b></div>
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N Asia: Nepal to China [<a href="http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=7028" title="Birdlife.org">info</a>]</div>
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John Gould's contributions to ornithological scholarship and natural history publishing are renowned. He travelled all over the world collecting birds obsessively. The pencil, ink and watercolour sketches of Gould's beloved quarry provided the designs for his book illustrations. Gould was ably assisted in bringing these initial sketches to print-quality, colour plates, by his wife, Elizabeth Gould, until her death following childbirth in 1841. Subsequently, Gould hired artists - including Edward Lear<sup>{<a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2011/09/lears-parrots-prequel.html" title="Lear's Parrots: the Prequel">1</a>} {<a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com.au/2008/11/parrots.html" title="The Parrots">2</a>}</sup><span style="font-size: x-small;"> (the <i>greatest</i> of all bird artists in my opinion)</span> - to help turn his designs into lithographic plates: <i>"I am happy to say that I am getting my Birds beautifully drawn by other artists and as I have always [done] I shall continue to make the sketches."</i><a href="http://australianmuseum.net.au/Gould-the-artist" title="Australian Museum">^</a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">{1841}</span><br />
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Two areas of Gould's extensive legacy are particularly noteworthy. Gould was largely responsible for putting ornithological studies in Australia on the map as a consequence of an extended visit in the late 1830s. Of the some 750 species of bird that live here in Australia, Gould is believed to have provided the first description for nearly half of them. He also published a book on the local non-feathered animal population, and again, recorded the first scientific description for about 40 of the species. In a country with such a high regard for their unique fauna, Gould holds a particularly special place in its history. That makes the following all the more galling (doubly so when one considers Gould's hopes in his will that his own copies of his various series on birds would remain in the family "in the nature of heirlooms"):<br />
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"John Gould's copy of <em>'The Birds of Australia'</em>, one of only 250 sets published, along with his <em>'Mammals of Australia'</em>, <em>'A Monograph of the Macropodidae'</em> and <em>'Birds of New Guinea'</em> were sold to an Australian bidder in 1987. Their owner subsequently broke up the volumes and auctioned 1213 plates individually."<a href="http://australianmuseum.net.au/Gould-the-publisher" title="Australian Museum">^</a></blockquote>
Charles Darwin consulted with Gould in relation to birds that were collected in the Galápagos Islands during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. Gould corrected Darwin's assessment of the unique species, providing pivotal analysis and identification of both birds and some animals. The information Gould provided - particularly about the variation of Galápagos finches - was combined with knowledge of the specific islands where each specimen was collected. Comparison between the island birds (and against comparable mainland species) was an important catalyst in Darwin's formation of the theory of evolution by natural selection. Gould's conclusions were published in Darwin's <i>'Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle'</i> in ~1840.<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.e-rara.ch/nev_r/content/titleinfo/2110642"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>'The Birds of Asia'</i> by John Gould was published in London between 1850 and 1883 and all seven volumes are owned by BPU Neuchâtel and hosted on the Swiss E-Rara digital collection portal site</span></a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/gould-john-2113">Entry on John Gould in the <i>'Australian Dictionary of Biography'</i></a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://australianmuseum.net.au/John-Gould">The Austaralian Museum has a fairly extentisve site devoted to Gould and his life and work</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=as_li_qf_sp_sr_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&index=aps&keywords=john%20gould&linkCode=as2&tag=bibliodyssey-20&linkId=RGFJCX2SA5ID5ON7">John Gould works available from Amazon</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/latrobejournal/issue/latrobe-02/t1-g-t1.html">A 1968 review in La Troble Journal of the few original Gould sketches held at La Trobe Library in Melbourne</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/latrobejournal/search/results?type=section&text=gould&cmdSubmit=Go">All mentions of "gould" in La Trobe Journal</a>. ("This highly regarded journal was founded by the Friends of the State Library of Victoria in 1968 to promote interest in the Library's Australiana collection.")</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gould">John Gould at Wikipedia</a>.</li>
<li>Previous post featuring John Gould monographs: <a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2007/03/gould-hummingbirds.html">Gould Hummingbirds</a> - <a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-trogons.html">The Trogons</a> and, more generally: <a href="https://delicious.com/bibliodyssey/science">science</a> | <a href="https://delicious.com/bibliodyssey/fauna">fauna</a>.</li>
<li>This post first appeared on the <a href="http://bibliodyssey.com/" style="color: #199d8e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">BibliOdyssey website</a>.</li>
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