Heaveninawildflower

@heaveninawildflower

Floral notes, pressed petals, likes, loves, the occasional greyhound. Sorry, not really a chatty blog. Don't feel obliged to 'follow' me because you 'like' or re-blog my posts. However, please retain my links and credits (usually, just click on the picture for the source).

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Wild Rose (1831) by Moritz Tettelbach (1794–1870).

Dorotheum

Wikimedia.

#botanical illustration #botany #Moritz Tettelbach #botanical art #wild rose

Varieties of peach with blossom taken from 'Pomona Britannica' (1812) by George Brookshaw.

From the British Library archive.

#botanical illustration #peaches #peach blossom #fruit #George Brookshaw

Textile Fragment (14th century). Probably made in Spain.

Silk; lampas.

Image and text information courtesy The Met.

#textiles #14th century #Spain #lampas #pattern #design

daily-deliciousness

Tomato and zucchini quiche

jstor

The dog days of summer are almost behind us! Despite what the name suggests, they were never really about dogs struggling through the heat.

The phrase comes from Sirius, the Dog Star, the brightest star in the constellation Canis Major. In the ancient Mediterranean world, Sirius’s appearance in the summer sky became associated with the season’s most intense heat.

This tiny garnet ring stone, made sometime between the 1st century BCE and 3rd century CE, depicts the head of Sirius—a fitting artifact for the final days of one of summer’s oldest expressions.

Image: Garnet Ring Stone with the Head of the Dog Sirius, 1st century BCE–3rd century CE. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

detroitlib

From our stacks: Illustration detail "Plate XLIX. Middle Ages. Fifteenth Century. Illuminations of Manuscripts. Flowers and Jewels. Illuminated Book of Hours. Lithographié par F. Durin. Imp. Firmin-Didot fr. Fils & Co., Paris." from Polychromatic Ornament. One Hundred Plates in Gold, Silver, and Colours, comprising upwards of two thousand specimens of the various styles of Ancient, Oriental, and Mediaeval Art, and including the Renaissance and the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Subjects selected and Arranged, in historical order and in a form suitable for practical use, by A. Racinet. With explanatory text, and a general introduction, translated from the original French. London: Henry Sotheran and Co., 1877.