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Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601) was a pivotal figure in the history of Dutch art, playing an important role both in the latter stages of the Flemish illumination tradition and the birth of the new genre of still life. In the last decade of his life Hoefnagel was appointed court artist to Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, and it was in this time that he appended Georg Bocskay’s Model Book of Calligraphy, of thirty years previous, with his own beautifully exquisite "Guide to the Construction of Letters". In each he surrounds the typographic diagram with a colourful array of symbolically charged motifs and, for some, an excerpt from the Bible which begins with the letter of focus. (Image source: The Getty)
- Sole Josef Maria Eder and Eduard Valenta
- Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, v1. Tab 50 Mark Catesby
- The Fox Trap Utagawa Hiroshige
- Plate 92, Filicinae Ernst Haeckel
- Tongue of Honey Bee Arthur E. Smith
- Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, v2. Tab 46 Mark Catesby
- Fashionable Battle of Frogs: I Kawanabe Kyōsai
- What a Golden Beak! Francisco de Goya