House of Rats

Anonymous painter (circle of Gerolamo Tessari), Saint Anthony Preaching to the Fish (detail), 1518, Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua

Joos van Cleve - The Last Judgment (c. 1525). Detail.

Line up released for Glastonbury’s new Chromatic Wood Type stage! 🤠 https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/specimens-of-chromatic-wood-type-and-borders-1874

Templum Auctions

Macdougalls

Macdougalls

🐉 Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures extraordinaires, . A Amsterdam, Chez Reinier & Josué Ottens, 1754.. Original source Image description: Historical illustration depicting four stylized sea creatures with vibrant, patterned colors. On the left, a long fish with alternating golden yellow and pink bands, spiny green fins, and a toothy, dragon-like head. At the top center, a dragonfish with wing-like green fins edged in pink and a narrow, decorated body resembling a dragon’s face. Below it, a striped yellow and blue fish with green fins and an unusual curved red mouth structure. On the right, a smaller brown fish with blue spots, green fins, and a blunt snout. The creatures are numbered 51 to 54 with accompanying 18th-century French descriptions. The illustration blends naturalist detail with imaginative, dragon-inspired designs.

Happy #WorldTurtleDay! Here’s a kind turtle helping a monkey out with a ride, from the Lights of Canopus, a 19th-century Persian version of an ancient Indian collection of animal fables. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/illustrations-from-the-lights-of-canopus-1847

Hartmann Schedel, Locusts, Nuremberg Chronicles, 1493

In these bewildering landscapes (ca. 1689) by Ferdinand van Kessel, 64 cities across 4 continents are depicted as mere backdrops to the antics of animals — the built environment of the human world almost superfluous. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kessel-four-parts-of-the-world

One of Dutch artist Arent van Bolten’s many “grotesques” held by the @Rijksmuseum and produced sometime in the early 17th century. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/arent-van-bolten-s-grotesques

Internet Archive

> Illuminator: Maître d'Antoine Rolin.

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