Foxes' Library

An inspiration & reference blog belonging to Fox-Teeth (Erin), a cartoonist living in NYC. For collecting materials related to current & future comics & art projects, generally inspiring or useful things, and just neat stuff. Icon image source: a Book of Hours c. 1460 held by Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum Background image source: The Pepin Press Mobile header image thing source: New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Oji, No. 118 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo By Utagawa Hiroshige, image from the Brooklyn Museum

[endlingmusings]

The preserved hearts of the last known pair of great auks, part of the collection of the Natural History Museum of Denmark. The birds were nesting on the island of Eldey, off the coast of southwest Iceland, when they were killed on June 3rd, 1844. The single egg they'd been incubating at the time was crushed in the process. [ x ]

[entertheaardvark-deactivated202]

I’m so sorry has everybody seen this bots of new york

[the-transfeminine-mystique]

the Master whose oracle is at Delphi does not speak, does not dissimulate; he signifies

[thalassarche]

Shy Mollymawk (Thalassarche cauta) - photo by JJ Harrison

[ymutate]

A Mesopotamian leopard. Date: Late Uruk, Jemdet Nasr period, circa 3300-2900 BCE. Medium: inlaid limestone.

[paleotanks]

Cutaway Smilodon and Dire Wolf.

Carnegie Museum of Natural History

[deathandmysticism]

Ferdinand van Kessel, Ansichten aus den vier Weltteilen mit Szenen von Tieren, 17th century

[herpsandbirds]

Pink-spotted Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus perlatus), family Columbidae, order Columbiformes, found in New Guinea

photos: Irawan Subingar, Ekhardt Lietzow, Dubi Shapiro

[rosiesdreams-deactivated2023081]

“A little heartthrob”  The Canadian Goose and Vermilion Flycatcher

[useless-catalanfacts]

Masculine cape made of green silk velvet with golden embroidery. Years 1651-1675.

Source: Museu Virtual de la Moda de Catalunya [Fashion Virtual Museum of Catalonia]. Kept in Museu del Disseny [Design Museum] in Barcelona, Catalonia.

[humanoidhistory]

The Sun rises over Earth in a postcard illustrated by Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, recalling the 1965 mission when he became the first human to walk in space.

[cuties-in-codices]

more medieval manuscript repairs

all from a miscellany containg thomas de chabham's "summa poenitentialis", southern germany (?), first half of the 13th c.

source: Basel, Universitätsbibl., B X 1, fol. 56r, 67r, and 71r

[astronautawry]

New aesthetic: Arctic hares when their coat is only half done shedding and they look a little fucked up

[holymound]

[ehresherpa]

1,600-year-old lead curse tablet in the Museo Archeologico Civico di Bologna, of unknown provenance. — "The first known surviving curse directed at a Roman senator. ... The text is written mainly in Latin with Greek invocations ... 'Crush, kill Fistus the senator,' part of the curse reads, 'May Fistus dilute, languish, sink and may all his limbs dissolve …' " — Image a composite of photo and drawing found at The History Blog

[frogteethblogteeth]

Netsuke of Mother Bat with Two Young, Hō-raku, 19th century

[fieldtomatoes]

Donkey in Zamora Province, Spain hauls flowering nabiza (turnip plants) to be pressed into vegetable oil

National Geographic - March, 1978

[cuties-in-codices]

neptune with his entourage

miniature from a copy of evrart de conty's livre des échecs amoureux, illuminated by robinet testard. the manuscript was produced in cognac (france), c. 1496-98

source: Paris, BnF, Français 143, fol. 130v