A Branch of Gooseberries with a Dragonfly, an Orange-Tip Butterfly, and a Caterpillar (mid-18th century) by Barbara Dietzsch (German, 1706 - 1783).
Gouache over graphite.
National Gallery of Art.
(Source: nga.gov)
Pansies (1874) by Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836 - 1904).
Oil on canvas.
National Gallery of Art.
(Source: nga.gov)
Watercolour painting on paper of Nerium oleander (India, 19th century).
© The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence.
(Source: britishmuseum.org)
Two crows on a branch (Japan, 1927) by Ohara Koson.
Woodblock print published by Watanabe Shôzaburô.
Rijksmuseum.
Wikimedia.
(Source: commons.wikimedia.org)
Gallo-Roman mosaic of a duck (end of 2nd century).
Musée de Saint-Romain-en-Gal, France.
Vassil - Wikimedia.
Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.
(Source: commons.wikimedia.org)
‘Spring Fashions’ - April 1916 edition of McCall’s Magazine with an illustration by Ruth Eastman of a fashionable young lady holding a bunch of Spring flowers.
Source: David LaFave. Processing by magscanner.
Internet Archive Python library 1.8.1
(Source: archive.org)
Charles Knight – Scientist of the Day
Charles Robert Knight, an American wildlife painter, paleo-artist, and sculptor, died Apr. 15, 1953, at the age of 78.
Snow-covered conifers, Northern Wyoming Range, western Wyoming
© riverwindphotography, April 2026