artworks

A botanical study of <n>Sorbus aucuparia</n> from an 1875 book by <n>Dr. Ludwig Radlkofer</n>.

<n>Passing through the Forest</n> (1920), an illustration by <n>Virginia Frances Sterrett</n> from <n>Old French Fairytales</n>.

<n>Draco and Ursa Minor</n>, an 1825 chart from <n>Urania's Mirror</n>, engraved by <n>Sidney Hall</n>.

An 18th-century <n>Papier dominoté</n> from the collection of the <n>Bibliothèques-Médiathèques de Nancy</n>.

<n>Passion Flowers With Three Hummingbirds</n> by artist <n>Martin Johnson Heade</n>.

An aerial photograph of <n>Death Valley</n> from 1989 by <n>Barrie Rokeach</n>.

<n>They were three months passing through the forest</n>, an illustration by <n>Virginia Frances Sterrett</n> for the 1920 book <n>Old French Fairytales</n>.

<n>She threw her arms around the neck of Bonne-Biche</n> by <n>Virginia Frances Sterrett</n> for "Old French Fairytales" (1920).

A plate from <n>Karl Blossfeldt</n>'s 1928 work, <n>Urformen der Kunst</n>.

<n>Florence Vidor</n> in the 1926 silent film <n>You Never Know Women</n>, directed by <n>William Wellman</n>.

<n>Lilac</n> from <n>The Flowers Personified</n> (1849) by artist <n>J. J. Grandville</n>.

Photographer <n>Tony Vaccaro</n>'s 1960 portrait of artist <n>Georgia O'Keeffe</n> with her 1944 painting <n>Pelvis Series, Red with Yellow</n> in New Mexico.

<n>Ravenala madagascariensis</n> in Madagascar, c. 1890.

Engraving by <n>Christian Leinberger</n> from <n>Georg Wolfgang Knorr</n>'s '<n>Deliciae Naturae Selectae</n>', 1771.

Title page for the 1847 book <n>Les Fleurs Animées</n>, illustrated by <n>J. J. Grandville</n>.

<n>J.J. Grandville</n>'s "Narcisse" from <n>Les Fleurs Animées</n> (1847), engraved by <n>Charles Geoffroy</n>.

Actress <n>Aileen Pringle</n> in the 1925 silent film <n>The Mystic</n>. Costume by <n>Erté</n>.

<n>Arrowhead</n> (Flèche-d'Eau), an illustration by <n>J. J. Grandville</n> from <n>The Flowers Personified</n> (1847).

An illustration of Sol, the personified sun, by <n>Wilhelm Dilich</n> for the 1596 <n>Christening of Lady Elisabeth of Hesse</n>.

<n>La Péri (Mythological Subject)</n> by <n>Gustave Moreau</n>, 1865.

<n>Water lily</n> (1849) by <n>J. J. Grandville</n> from the series <n>The Flowers Personified</n>.