#feathersday

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For #Feathersday 🪶:

“Plumes” (Feathers)

Illustration by Adolphe Millot (France, 1857-1921) in Le Larousse pour tous : Nouveau dictionnaire encyclopédique, vol.2, (1907-1910) p.465.

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Big Bird

Look at this fabulous giant birb gracing the title page of a 17th century Greek dictionary!

Hesychius, of Alexandria. Hesychiou lexikon, cum variis doctorum virorum notis vel editis ante hac vel ineditis, Junii, Scaligeri, Salmasii...Lugd. Batav., Roterod., ex officina Hackiana, 1668.

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Little Screech Owl, from Audubon’s Birds of America. 

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For #Feathersday 🪶:

#ArtNouveau bird feather designs by Anton Seder (Germany, 1850-1916), published in Das Thier in der decorativen: Plates 20 (dated 1900) & 29 (dated 1899).

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From #Woodensday into #Feathersday…

Taus (mayuri), India, c.1885 wood, parchment, metal, feathers The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

“The name of this bowed instrument means peacock, the bird associated with Saraswati, the goddess of music. Popular at 19th century courts, it derives its form from the dilruba, an instrument combining features of other Indian stringed instruments like the sarangi and the sitar.”

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For #Feathersday:

Caroline Conyers (British, 1768 - 1848) Study of Four Feathers with White Currants, n.d. pencil, watercolor and bodycolor 22.3 x 18.4 cm (8.75 x 7.25 in.) private collection

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For #Feathersday:

“EVOLUTION OF THE EYES ON A PEACOCK’S TRAIN.” Plate LXXXVII in _A Monograph of the Pheasants_ V.4, 1922.

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For #WorldBookDay and #Feathersday, here is the Art Nouveau-inspired cover of Sketch-book of British birds by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (English, 1847-1909), London, 1898. Digitized by BHL.