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‘Goatte fly’ (Capricorn beetle) before 1682 by
Alexander Marshal (c1620-1682).
http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2007/01/marshal-insect-album.html Wikimedia.
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Spotted Forktail by Abu’l Hasan. Folio from the Shah Jahan Album ca. 1610–15 Metropolitan Museum New-York.
Wikimedia.
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Study of yellow-bellied Seedeater (Crithagra flaviventris), on a branch with spider (1667)Rochus van Veen (circa 1640(1640)–1693)
Galerie Bassenge Wikimedia
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Nerium oleander L ( from Hortus Malabaricus 1678-1693).
Hendrik van Rheede et al. (1636–1691).
Wikimedia.
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Dronte (Dodo) 17th century.
Traces of black chalk, watercolour, gum arabic, brown wash framing lines.
Christie’s, via Wikimedia.
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Painting by the Mughal artist Ustad Mansur from c 1625, which may be one of the most accurate depictions of a live dodo. Two live specimens were brought to India in the 1600s according to Peter Mundy, and the specimen depicted might have been one of these. Other birds depicted are Loriculus galgulus (upper left) Tragopan melanocephalus (upper right), Anser indicus (lower left) Pterocles indicus (lower right).
Hermitage, St. Petersburg. http://julianhume.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/History-of-the-dodo-Hume.pdf
Text and image - Wikimedia.
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Balthasar van der Ast (1593/1594–1657)- Lizard and Shell (1620’s)
Wikimedia
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Jan van Kessel
Study of Butterflies and Hawk Moth
17th century
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Flora Sinensis - Pi Pa Ko (1656). One of the earliest natural history books about China. Jesuit Missionary author. (obviously includes some non-Chinese {and non-floral} species).
Bibliothèque Universtaire Moretus Plantin.
Michael Boym (Michał Piotr Boym). Wikimedia.
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Flora Sinensis - Avis Regia and. Forest Chicken (1656). One of the earliest natural history books about China. Jesuit Missionary author. (obviously includes some non-Chinese {and non-floral}species). This image: Fenghoang (Avis regia) and the “forest chicken”.
Michael Boym (Michał Piotr Boym)
Bibliothèque Universtaire Moretus Plantin.
(Words and image from Wikimedia).
