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[arthistoryanimalia]

How about a fancy fish flourish for #FishFriday 🐟?

From "The Penman's Paradise” by Knapp & Rightmyer (1853), reproduced in Ames' Book of Flourishes: 125 Designs by 72 Leading American Penmen (1890). Found while perusing the stacks at Winterthur Library today.

[jadeseadragon]

@book_historia

[arthistoryanimalia]

#FindsFriday:

Illustrations from _Our four-footed friends & favourites_ (London : T. Nelson & Sons, 1890s): Dog - Cats - Rabbits - Squirrel

another fun find from Winterthur Library’s special collections :)

[arthistoryanimalia]

#FindsFriday:

Fidelia Bridges (USA, 1834-1923)

4 bird illustrations, 1886; published in Songsters of the Branches by Susie Barstow Skelding (New York : F. A. Stokes, 1889)

found today in Winterthur Library’s rare book collection :)

[wpamc]

Museum v. Library Face-Off

Linda (regarding electrical storms?): Wintercat may go down.

Emily: So might KE.