William Timlin The Fairy Zoo
Vintage children’s book fantasy art by South African author William Timlin from his book “The ship that sailed to Mars”.
William Timlin Fairy Zoo
vintage
John James Audubon American Flamingo
John James Audubon American Flamingo (1834)
John James Audubon was a French American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. He was notable for his expansive studies to document all types of American birds and for his detailed illustrations that depicted the birds in their natural habitats. His major work, a color-plate book entitled The Birds of America, is considered one of the finest ornithological works ever completed. Audubon identified 25 new species.
Cat In A Ruff
Cat In A Ruff
Cute Victorian vintage art.
Mark Twain had this painting on the mantle in his library.
Albrecht Durer Stag Beetle
Albrecht Durer Stag Beetle (1505)
Albrecht Durer was a German painter, engraver, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. His high-quality woodcuts (nowadays often called Meisterstiche or “master prints”) established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance ever since.
This watercolor drawing by Albrecht Durer depicts a stag beetle, and ist one of the most influential and most copied nature studies.
Ogata Korin Cranes
Ogata Kōrin Cranes (1710)
Ogata Kōrin was a Japanese painter of the Rinpa school. He was born in Kyoto to a wealthy merchant who had a taste for the arts and is said to have given his son some elementary instruction therein. Kōrin also studied under Soken Yamamoto, the Kanō school, Tsunenobu and Gukei Sumiyoshi, and was greatly influenced by his predecessors Hon’ami Kōetsu and Tawaraya Sōtatsu. On arriving at maturity, however, he broke away from all tradition, and developed a very original and quite distinctive style of his own, both in painting and in the decoration of lacquer. The characteristic of this is a bold impressionism, which is expressed in few and simple highly idealized forms, with an absolute disregard for both realism and the usual conventions.