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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)

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Pansies (1874) by Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836 - 1904).

Oil on canvas.

National Gallery of Art.

(Source: nga.gov)

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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)

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Two crows on a branch (Japan, 1927) by Ohara Koson.

Woodblock print published by Watanabe Shôzaburô.

Rijksmuseum.

Wikimedia.

(Source: commons.wikimedia.org)

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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)

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‘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)

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sheepyhollows:

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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.

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riverwindphotography:

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Snow-covered conifers, Northern Wyoming Range, western Wyoming

© riverwindphotography, April 2026

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