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HENNI ALFTAN

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Gustave Max Stevens - The Twelve Princesses (1899)

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Photography by Xuebing Du

Instagram: xuebing.du

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'Monssonia Speciosa' (Butterfly Flower).

Botanical illustration taken from 'Le Jardin du Roi' by Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz.

Published 1792.

Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Réserve des livres rares.

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Jill Barklem (1951 - 2017)

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Glowing Touch, by Anthony Cudahy

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Larkspur -   Lucy Culliton , 2014.

Australian,b.1966  -

Watercolour, gouache on thick white wove paper , 56.0 x 76.6 cm.

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Moon with Earthshine l Kevin M. Gill

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Best Foot Forward

We are happily marching into the weekend like this little fellow spotted in a late 18th century French edition of a work of English church history by Francis Bacon.

Bacon, Francis. Le Christianisme de Franc̜ois Bacon, chancelier d'Angleterre : ou, Pensées et sentimens de ce grand homme sur la religion. A Paris: Chez Nyon, aîné, Libraire, rue du Jardinet, No. 2. [Chez] Belin, Imprimeur-Libraire, rue Saint-Jacques, No. 22. An VII. [i.e. 1798-1799].

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Carl Linnaeus - Floral clock, 'Philosophia botanica', 1751

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Rebecca Zook

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Animal Ghosts. Edited by Claudia Clow. Illustrated by Walt Disney Productions. 1971.

Internet Archive

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by (x)99.

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Garth Williams (American,1912-1996)

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Gate to the meadow.  By jogrundyart