Gordon Stables, Cats : their points and characteristics : with curiosities of cat life, and a chapter on feline ailments (1877)
Yes, because a book will help sooo much.
Throughout An Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1657 by S. B. (1657). Original from Indiana University. Digitized August 9, 2011.
Tenor trombone (buccin)
Origin: probably France
Date: ca. 1830
Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
And if you don’t like the music, it EATS YOU!
Opium paraphernalia including an ivory pipe.
From here
(Source: ancient-serpent)
One day I will have one of these.
Apropos for the season ~ this illustration is indeed by Frederick Ruysch, from a set of 1744 engravings.
Arrangement of fetal skeletons, bladder calculi, blood vessels, and a songbird.
Artist/Anatomist not noted, but the artistic style is that of Frederik Ruysch and he was one of the more notable at the height of the artistic Renaissance of anatomy. He arranged specimens in artistic poses and displayed them in glass-cased displays that fascinated and dazzled the public. Preserved specimens had only been developed and used since the late 1600s. While the novelty of seeing a preserved animal or human on display caught the public’s attention, the artistic stylings of the anatomists and naturalists of the day is what kept it.
(Source: degarr)
my bat is perfect.
Lover’s Eyes
“The eye miniature was a mysterious art form, popular for a brief moment in the late 1700s and early 1800s among well-to-do families”
Octopus Chatelaine
Rhode Island, 1887
Victorian Bat and Quarter Moon Chatelaine Piece. This chatelaine piece features a bat flying over a town with a quarter moon in the background. The chatelaine piece could have functioned to hold rouge or coins
