A visual collection of fine art, scientific illustration, and other curious images. Often esoteric, mostly public domain.
Adam - Kristian Zahrtmann - 1914 - via Sotheby’s
The Bear family at home, and how the circus came to visit them - Curtis Dwight Wilbur - 1923 - via Internet Archive
Stilleven van een vogelnestje, viooltjes, primula’s en appelbloesem - Thomas Frederick Collier - 1872 - via Rijksmuseum (cropped)
R. Voigtländers Verlag - Handbüchlein des künstlerischen Wandschmucks - 1917 - via University of Heidelberg
Zhupel - S.P. IUritsyn - 1905-1906 - via Beinecke Library
Jan Stanisławski - 1907 - via National Museum Warsaw
The Intellectual Observer; a review of natural history, microscopic research, and recreative science - 1870 - via Internet Archive
Le règne végétal - Atlas - Aristide Dupuis & Jean-Augustin Barral - c.1864-1869 - via Gallica
Forest agitated by earthquake shocks in Central America. Earthquakes - Arnold Boscowitz & C.B. Pitman - 1890 - via Internet Archive
Das Werk von Richard Müller - Franz Hermann Meissner - 1921 - via Internet Archive
Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (1859–1923) - Prowling Cat - via MFA Boston
Narcisse - François-Louis Schmied - c.1925 - via Sotheby’s
Arte Greca. L'ornamento policromo - Alfredo Melani - 1886 - via Internet Archive
The polychrome ornament - Ser. 2: 120 plates in gold, silver and color printing - German Edition, 1885 - Auguste Racinet - via Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB)
Le règne végétal - Atlas, Tome 1 - Aristide Dupuis & Jean-Augustin Barral - c.1864-1869 - via Gallica