natural history

  1. Pennantian parrot by the self-taught 18th-century artist Sarah Stone, who created extraordinary natural history paintings of exotic, endangered, and extinct species at a time when neither science nor art were open to women. Click through for more,...

    Pennantian parrot by the self-taught 18th-century artist Sarah Stone, who created extraordinary natural history paintings of exotic, endangered, and extinct species at a time when neither science nor art were open to women. Click through for more, and for prints. 

  2. Cassowary of New South Wales by the self-taught 18th-century artist Sarah Stone, who created extraordinary natural history paintings of exotic, endangered, and extinct species at a time when neither science nor art were open to women. Click through...

    Cassowary of New South Wales by the self-taught 18th-century artist Sarah Stone, who created extraordinary natural history paintings of exotic, endangered, and extinct species at a time when neither science nor art were open to women. Click through for more, and for prints. 

  3. Potoroo — a marsupial the size of a rabbit, with the posture of a kangaroo, presently severely endangered — by the self-taught 18th-century artist Sarah Stone, who created extraordinary natural history paintings of exotic, endangered, and extinct...

    Potoroo — a marsupial the size of a rabbit, with the posture of a kangaroo, presently severely endangered — by the self-taught 18th-century artist Sarah Stone, who created extraordinary natural history paintings of exotic, endangered, and extinct species at a time when neither science nor art were open to women. Click through for more, and for prints. 

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