The BHL’s earliest texts date to the mid-1400s its digital collection includes illustrations as recently created as the early 1900s.
Now, reports Hakim Bishara for Hyperallergic, more than 150,000 such artworks are freely available for download via the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), an open-access digital archive that preserves images and documents related to botany, wildlife and biodiversity.Ĭaptured in watercolor paintings, lithograph prints and black-ink linework, the collected illustrations demonstrate the diversity of Earth’s wildlife as observed over hundreds of years.
Botanical illustrations offer mesmerizingly detailed and vividly colored glimpses of the natural world.
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