Yes, yes..I know it's Monday - but you were supposed to have had this yesterday! My scanner would not play ball then - but at 4 am this morning, during a bout of insomnia, it must have felt sorry for me - so here you are!
I am - as you know from my 'Month in the Country' posts - in the middle of a major clear up & discard of many books. In a past life as a book and print dealer I acquired many, many old Victorian (and earlier) books and prints…so as I go through them, I thought it would be nice to share some of their contents with you, which you may choose to use in a number of different ways: as a black and white print, hand-coloured, or perhaps as a decoupaged image on top of a box. I'll experiment myself with some of these ideas, and share my experiments at a later date.
I have much higher resolution images here but I'm only posting lower resolution ones to this blog, so if you want to print anything out on a larger scale just contact me and I'll send it to you. (For the in-blog images, click on the image to open in a new window, right hand click to 'save as' on your computer, then print from that.
Today's offerings come from a publication from 1843 - 'Knights Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature'. Filled with hundreds of zoological engravings, these come from the ornithology section.
Have fun - let me know what you do with them - and I'll post some more images next week.
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