‘The Entomologist’s Dream’
In The Entomologist’s Dream (1909) by Edmund Dulac an entomologist – in a state of near collapse – bears witness to…
In The Entomologist’s Dream (1909) by Edmund Dulac an entomologist – in a state of near collapse – bears witness to…
Welcome poverty!..Welcome misery, welcome houselessness, welcome hunger, rags, tempest, and beggary! Mutual confidence will sustain us to the end! –…
Throughout the nineteenth-century the mania for seashells steadily swelled; they featured on Christmas cards, and adorned countless keepsakes, jewellery, and furniture….
I stumbled upon these plates from a gorgeous book entitled An Essay Towards a Natural History of Serpents (1742) and had to share…
The fairy was often thought of as a mode of rebellion against the exactitude of science and technology. This is…
I at least have so much to do in unravelling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and…
They say that beauty is everywhere, often hidden in plain sight. In the case of the lost art of…
What is curiosity? Does it change according to the ebbs and flows of time? While today we might associate it with…
An eager student of both the arts and the sciences Beatrix Potter’s childhood was equally enchanted by the discovery of…
NB: For more on Charles Darwin’s outlook on human emotion see the article that prompted this post Thomas Dixon’s piece…