wonders of the natural world, illustrated

oh man, that looks so cool!

I've been kind of obsessed with the idea of getting a tattoo of a pre-historic man lately and in my GISing i came across the work of Zdeněk Burian. A littler later period than the stuff on this thread but still pretty cool.

http://i.imgur.com/IErKA.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/7qpmL.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/RVw3v.jpg

my new favorite thread

― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Friday, August 3, 2012 11:21 PM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

when I opened it up and saw the first picture, I imagined it was yours.

:D

just learned about Maria Sibylla Merian, 17th c illustrator of insects and flowers

http://assets.nybooks.com/media/photo/2009/06/15/rowland_1-040909_jpg_230x866_q85.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jfMkW5ejZvE/S8OgIFsqkDI/AAAAAAAAHVM/zSBPmFU0FSI/s1600/Maria-sibylla-merian01.jpg

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4008/4584727244_aa799ffb14_m.jpg

love them 'pillars

today i just want to disappear so i just keep looking at this picture and it gets a tiny bit better

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8032/8071723349_d06f5053c2_b.jpg

beautiful

LL-- any tips on good textbook illustrations of early man? i am considering a tat(oo)

hmmm

i have a book illustrated by richard m powers that i really like -- it's about early man and i think it's part of a series. not so much realistic line drawings but stuff like this, which i love

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7173/6588562073_750453f586_b.jpg

this is the cover of the book
i love it but it's probably too creepy for a tattoo on a guy with a sunny disposition

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7158/6588603327_918a4974e2_b.jpg

^^^ I read this at school, I think. Or at least a book very much like it. IIRC there was also a record that our teacher played that was a dramatisation of some of the events in the book. It was all presented as the cave people's 'inner thoughts', because as the RP-voiced explained, there was no way of knowing if these people actually had any form of language.

RP-voiced

'RP-voiced narrator at the beginning'

the illustrations are great! i love that book.

ooooo know what you should do? visit an out of date natural history museum and take pictures of the illustrations they have there.
(hard from where you are, i'd imagine, but maybe some have websites?)

just an idea
i realized that i developed a taste for inanimate nature while daydreaming at museums when i was a kid -- just like rock after rock after rock, diorama after diorama. i love that shit.

good idea

style i'm looking for is something like halfway between Frazetta/Vallejo and straight-up science textbook, but squarely homo-sapien, not neanderthal etc

this doesn't really help out much in your quest, but so much to look at here!
http://www.mnh.si.edu/exhibits/virtual.html

inanimate nature

This...
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/resources-rx/images/1010/at-museum-blue-whale-20764-1.jpg
...is huge, the life size blue whale at the Natural History Museum in London

yeeeeeeeeeeeeees
i love the most boring things on earth

maybe i'll just use this for a tattoo
http://i.imgur.com/kEYys.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcwwljvBkb1rdpo47o1_500.jpg
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2769/4250788825_e1f3c60f6c.jpg

hey gr8080 i figure this is maybe a little hairier (?) than what you're looking for, but here is a prehistoric man for you

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdxzw2ZxAI1r38ji3o3_r1_500.jpg

yeah that is v v close to the style i want, thanks

moffe growing vpon the chest of man

this is that guy's website http://www.marcosoliveira.50webs.com/

and here is an adorable animal he drew

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y76IcrB8u18/ULEmKNjpXoI/AAAAAAAAA3g/oFNtKQcsmLE/s400/Eliomys+quercinus.jpg

some cool patterns here
this set would make a fun coloring book
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8486/8252158741_3b3ca23471.jpg
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8486/8253221300_61881f0abc.jpg

post that to the trypophobia thread imo

also i meant to spam this thread with my cinematographer wizard appreciation thread because although it's not illustrated, it could be of interest to anyone who enjoys nature imagery Ken Middleham appreciation thread

Caption these monkeys
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6202/6059024763_cf20343320_o.jpg

when i was younger i had these time-life books abt the world w/ these illustrations of different environments and have been searching for a scan online w/ no luck. the illustrations were extremely lavish would have maybe 100 different species animals coexisting on one page.

from Marvels of Insect Life

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8504/8317453243_84599d200e_b.jpg

Cannot get over the look on this flying squirrel's face

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8364/8338415868_b1edbefa37_b.jpg

thinkin baout things

http://i.imgur.com/RC8nSNP.jpg

That looks like a fun party.

hippo is tripping balls from the looks of things

party elephant

Sexy bear dancing

http://books.google.com/books?id=juyfAAAAMAAJ

http://i.imgur.com/6JjfuCj.jpg

via: http://papirmasse.com/art/2013/artist-interview-pat-perry

(not too nuts abt the other stuff)

bio div library just added a bunch of new animal illustrations, including hilarious ones like "how ya like me now" flying squirrel

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7298/8949592281_3183c213b3.jpg

and the simply named "torrid jerboa"

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7447/8949613047_e34b17c72f.jpg

Right thread for this?

http://io9.com/how-europeans-imagined-exotic-animals-centuries-ago-ba-1545362205

this thread is wonderful + makes me super happy

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/1916440_1265018098540_2762066_n.jpg?oh=e1000519a0a851bbc028204344f9b8f2&oe=5524ED5C&__gda__=1433279661_542d56256fe86320171218461d45af6c

https://manboobz.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/pitcher_plants_-_pflanzenleben.jpg?w=1182&h=1154

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7613/16775579422_b591c94601_b.jpg

“A Group of Carnations”, a plate from Robert Thornton’s Temple of Flora (1807) – Source.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8200/8166830537_4902064477_o.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8204/8166859510_bfa3ef4b5a_o.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7126/8166859448_3e950cd893_o.jpg

Source

love this thread

here are some from Histoire Naturelle des Indes (or "the Drake manuscript") ca. 1586
http://www.themorgan.org/collection/Histoire-Naturelle-des-Indes

http://thenonist.com/images/uploads/drk.mantte.jpg
MANTTE (Manta Ray)
This fish is very large and no less vicious. When the negroes dive in the sea for pearls it jumps on them to make them drown and afterward eats them.

http://thenonist.com/images/uploads/drk.centpierne.jpg
CENT PIERNE (Centipede)
A very poisonous beast. It feeds in places where there is wine and vinegar. It only moves around at night. A person who has been bitten by this animal lives only for twenty-four hours afterwards. It finds the Indians in their beds in order to kill them.

http://thenonist.com/images/uploads/drk.cappe.jpg
CHALIRATI (Crocodile), PECHE ESPADE (Sawfish), and CAPPE (Eel)

http://thenonist.com/images/uploads/drk.periqitelegere.jpg
PERIQITE LEGERE (Sloth)
The nature of this animal is to climb with its belly uppermost and, climbing this way, it moves faster than a man could on foot. The skin of this animal is very excellent for people suffering from the falling sickness (epilepsy). The head of the afflicted is covered with it and then one realizes how effective the skin is.

http://thenonist.com/images/uploads/drk.sagovai.jpg
PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (Wild Porcupine), SAGOVAI (Monkey), and CRABLE SAVVAGE (Scorpion)

http://thenonist.com/images/uploads/drk.tiberon.jpg
TIBERON (Shark)
This fish is very vicious in the sea so that when a sailor throws himself in the water for some reason this fish turns on his back and tears out a leg or an arm and eats it.

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BtpLAKACAAApCgR.jpg
Marganahv (Cuckoo)
Bird living in the woods is very excellent food.

http://36.media.tumblr.com/61988df9237b7955517c7481172ce6e7/tumblr_n9gf6k0pdq1rl1rfao1_500.jpg
Povlle Dv Perov (Hen from Peru)
This bird takes shelter in smoky places where one makes a fire and when it can get into a garden it eats the melons.

a few more

http://thenonist.com/images/uploads/drk.monnebarbve.jpg
MONNE BARBVE (Bearded Mona)
This animal is the size of a greyhound. When it sees people in the woods it breaks off branches and throws them at the men. Their habitat is normally in the forests between Nombre de Dios and Panama.

http://thenonist.com/images/uploads/drk.movqvites.jpg
MOVQITES (Mosquito)
They are small flies which are so small that one cannot see them, they are very dangerous. When there is no wind and the weather is calm, they come in droves attacking people, stinging them in such a manner that one would take them for lepers. Where they bite, the flesh swells up like a pea and if one kills said flies where they have stung, this protects them from the swelling. The Indians make a fire in their houses in order to keep them away and they only appear at night, retreating during the day close to the sea in the sand.

http://thenonist.com/images/uploads/drk.tigrefermilliere.jpg
TIGRE FERMILLIERE (Tiger and Anteater)
Savage beast. However, whenever this small animal called anteater encounters a tiger looking for prey it turns on its back and throws itself on the tiger's neck and pierces its throat with its snout and claws and does not release him until he is dead on that spot.

http://thenonist.com/images/uploads/drk.piovchedemer.jpg
PIOVCHE DE MER
This is as valuable as a louse.

http://thenonist.com/images/uploads/drk.cifre.jpg
CIFRE (Monkey)
This is a very agile beast. The Indians cannot tame it or feed it for they die of grief and do not eat in captivity. They have a face like a human and are very mischievous and rebellious and throw themselves against people mainly in their faces and eyes.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Haeckel_Discomedusae_8.jpg/800px-Haeckel_Discomedusae_8.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Haeckel_Lacertilia.jpg/376px-Haeckel_Lacertilia.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Haeckel_Trochilidae.jpg/800px-Haeckel_Trochilidae.jpg

Source:Kunsformen der Natur

those are ernst haeckel, discussed upthread

beautiful

still thinking about the Temple of Flora illustrations (posted by mordy on march 20). like how the flowers are heroically, monumentally foregrounded, against a capital R Romantic landscape of mountains & brooding clouds. something something sublime something microcosm macrocosm something.

just the sense that that small thing— that particular flower and that particular species of flower— shares in the ephemeral glory of being (like & alongside us humans, appearing on the cosmic stage)

had not read source until today; attendant text fantastic, e.g. for the “Dragon Arum”:

SHE comes peeping from her purple crest with mischief fraught: from her green covert projects a horrid spear of darkest jet, which she brandishes aloft: issuing from her nostrils flies a noisome vapour, infecting the ambient air: her hundred arms are interspersed with white, as in the garments of the inquisition; and on her swollen trunk are observed the speckles of a mighty dragon; her sex is strangely intermingled with the opposite ! confusion dire ! -all framed for horror; or kind to warn the traveller that her fruits are poison-berries, grateful to the sight but fatal to the taste; such is the plan of PROVIDENCE, and such HER wise resolves.

Also caption in article: “Note the depiction in the distance of a volcano mid-spurt” (ha, had noticed the O’Keefesque sexual forms but had not noticed that).

I was tempted to buy an enormous Italian-language edition of the Comte de Buffon's Uccelli yesterday but would have struggled to carry it home.

http://i.imgur.com/Lxsg6Ee.jpg