the fifth day of creation ~ the creatures of the land, sea and sky ~ by Swiss fossil-collector/natural historian Johan Jacob Scheuchzer, in his magnum opus ‘Physica Sacra’, 1731 (Genesis 1: 20, 21) @artinsociety
Kawanabe Kyôsai, 1831-1889
Sleeping Cat, ca.1885/89, woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper, 24.4x25.5 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Inv. 47.48
Crow by Kyōsai Kawanabe (1831-1889).
Woodblock print.
Image and text information courtesy NYPL Digital Collection.
Source: digitalcollections.nypl.org
SAN FRANSISCO CHRONICLE
A New Era for California
by Theodore Ernest Langguth
1901.
Source: catalogue.swanngalleries.com
Dream of the Orient or The Peri, Gustave Moreau
Rêve d'Orient or La Péri, “painting in watercolour and gouache by Gustave Moreau, circa 1881.”
