I’m in love with  classic scientific illutrations. These illustrations about general herpetology are from ‘Erpetologie Generale, ou, Histoire Naturelle Complete des Reptiles’ by AMC Dumeril & G Bibron, 1854. 

The multi-volume series, ‘Erpétologie Générale, ou, Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles’, was released over a twenty year period beginning in 1834. Based on information from Bibliodyssey, the final volume is an atlas with more than one hundred steel engravings that were (I presume) hand-coloured.

 

Maskull Lasserre

Migration (detail) 2008 Carved woden coat hangers 40 x 12 x 8 inches

Bird wing bones carved into wooden coat hangers

Drawing and sculptural works of Canadian artist, Maskull Lasserre who deftly extracts the most delicate anatomical forms of humans and animals from common objects.

Via his website: “Lasserre’s drawings and sculptures explore the unexpected potential of the everyday and its associated structures of authority, class, and value. Elements of nostalgia, allegory, humor, and the macabre are incorporated into works that induce strangeness in the familiar, and provoke uncertainty in the expected.”

Deep sea creatures from cold northern seas. Photograph by Alexander Semenov. 

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lichens 10x

lichens 75x

tuft 20x

oak twig 20x

thistleroot 20x

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