Blue tit, 1741-1784, by #MargarethaBarbaraDietzsch (German, 1716/26-1795), who died #otd, Oct 16. Held by the @britishmuseum.bsky.social, www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

Blue tit, 1741-1784, by #MargarethaBarbaraDietzsch (German, 1716/26-1795), who died #otd, Oct 16. Held by the @britishmuseum.bsky.social, www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Two butterflies, n.d., by #CorneliaDeRijck (Dutch, 1653-1726), who was born #otd, Oct 11. Held by the Royal Swedish Academy; source, @rkdnl.bsky.social / the Netherlands Institute for Art History, rkd.nl/en/explore/i... #artherstory #womenartists #hernaturalhistory
Original botanical paintings by Caroline D. Murdoch created for an album for Caroline L.W. French. The paintings are dated from 1867-1869. I saw this collection when I visited Harvard Botany Libraries 🌿🌱.
#botanicalart #hernaturalhistory #specialcollections #HarvardBotany #HarvardLibrary
Waterfowl, c. 1680, by #CorneliaDeRijk (or #CorneliaDeRijck, #CorneliadeRyck; Dutch, 1653-1726), who died #otd, Oct 4. Held by the Hamburger Kunsthalle, online-sammlung.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/de/objekt/HK... #womenartists #artherstory #hernaturalhistory
Yellow Hibiscus and Aster, from the Flowers of the Twelve Months: October, 1670-1710, by #YunBing (#Qingyu 清於; Haoru 浩如; Chinese, Qianlong era, active late C17th–early C18th). Held by Asian Art Museum, searchcollection.asianart.org/objects/5437... #artherstory #womenartists #hernaturalhistory
Filled poppy, C18th, by #BarbaraReginaDietzsch (German, 1706-83), who was born #otd, Sept 22. Held by Kunsthalle Bremen, onlinekatalog.kunsthalle-bremen.de/DE-MUS-02761... #womenartists #artherstory #hernaturalhistory
In our latest #BHLat20 post, Briana Giasullo explores how digitization, metadata and archival collections are helping uncover the life and work of entomologist Carrie B. Aaron: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/09/carr... #Academy ofNaturalSciences
Double Bee Larkspur / Delphinium elatum, c. 1820, by #CarolineMariaApplebee (English, c.1787-1854), who died #otd, Sept 16. Held by @rhslibrary.bsky.social, collections.rhs.org.uk/view/1488/do... #hernaturalhistory #womenartists #artherstory
Daffodils, forget-me-nots, and a butterfly, 1657–1659, by #MariaSibyllaMerian (German-born, 1647-1717). Held at the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia; source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ma... #artherstory #womenartists #hernaturalhistory
Pomegranates / Punica granatum, n.d., by #AnnSchweizer (South African, 1930-2014). Held in the Shirley Sherwood Collection, shirleysherwood.com/-SAP2998 #RoshHashanah #RoshHashanah2026 #womenartists #artherstory #hernaturalhistory
Kamperfoelie / Honeysuckle 1665-1717, by #AlidaWithoos (Dutch, 1660/2-1730). Held by @amsterdammuseum.bsky.social, am.adlibhosting.com/Details/muse... #womenartists #artherstory #hernaturalhistory