Making the Pages Come Alive: Four Centuries of Natural History in Print

January 14 – May 10, 2013

Making the Pages Come Alive: Four Centuries of Natural History in Print

Exhibit Brochure (pdf)

Tigris Gesneri

from Ulisse Aldrovandi's 'de quadrupedi[bus]', 1645

Large Billed Puffin

from Audubon's 'Birds of America', 1840-1844

Swift Fox

from Audubon's 'Quadrupeds of North America', 1849

Attacus Cynthia

from Denton's 'Moths and Butterflies', 1900

Anemones and Corals

from Gosse's 'A History of the British Sea-Anemones and Corals', 1860

Moose Deer

from Pennant's 'Arctic Zoology', 1784-1785

Flora of Lapland

from Carl von Linne's 'Flora Lapponica', 1737