• Petit Cabinet de Curiosites //
  • A place to store all the things that delight me. //
  • Archive
  • / Animals
  • / Arches
  • / Architecture
  • / Architectural Details
  • / Birds
  • / Black and White
  • / Blue and White
  • / Books
  • / Botanical
  • / Bottles
  • / Cabins
  • / Cats
  • / Costume
  • / Children
  • / Collections
  • / Dishes
  • / Elephants
  • / Envirnomental Art
  • / Flowers
  • / Food
  • / Frogs
  • / Cabin
  • / Hardware
  • / Illustration
  • / Insects
  • / Interiors
  • / Japanese
  • / Leaves
  • / Library
  • / People
  • / Polar Bears
  • / Owls
  • / Pattern
  • / Scenery
  • / Sculpture
  • / Spirals
  • / Still life
  • / Tea
  • / Whimsey
  • / Windows
  • / Theme
wallacegardens: Cereus peruvianus (Night Blooming Cactus). Karlsruher Tulpenbuch, 1730.
115 ♥
heaveninawildflower: Passion flower (Passiflora × lawsoniana, as Passiflora amabilis) from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine (1848). W.H. Fitch. Wikimedia.
61 ♥
heaveninawildflower: Champion quince (Cydonia oblonga) Watercolour by Amanda A. Newton (12/03/1909) From: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cor/pwc/cydonia-art.html United States Department of Agriculture Wikimedia.
64 ♥
heaveninawildflower: Carnation type flowers by Ulisse Aldrovandi (11 September 1522 – 4 May 1605). Source - vintageprintable.com
16 ♥
terramantra: Albertus Seba
1098 ♥
stilllifequickheart: Mary Vaux Walcott Bourgeau Rose 1923 ani
133 ♥
stilllifequickheart: Christophe-Paulin de la Poix The Swimming Crab and the Fiddler Crab 1822-39
375 ♥
muirgilsdream: Pears, etc. Georg Bocskay, calligrapher; Joris Hoefnagel, artist
64 ♥
loverofbeauty: Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522 - 1605)  Specimens of Nature
63 ♥
ifellforaghost: Renaisance notebooks on We Heart It - http://weheartit.com/entry/193980/via/araneus
318 ♥
scientificillustration: n366_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr. The Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., F.R.A.S., F.G.S., during the years 1843-1846 /.London :Reeve and Benham,1850 [i.e. 1848-1850].biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39771172
72 ♥
heaveninawildflower: Sirfolia from Collection Précieuse et Enluminée des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent dans les jardins de la Chine que dans ceux de l’Europe.(A Rare, Illustrated Collection of the most Beautiful and Exotic Flowers, Grown in the Gardens of China as well as Europe), Pierre-Joseph Buchoz, Paris, 1776. Source - theantiquarium.com 
23 ♥
6 ♥
2248 ♥
whitehotel: After Heinrich Füllmaurer and Albrecht Meyer (Italian copy), Solomon’s seal (1560)
264 ♥
  • ← Newer
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • Older →