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  2. William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings

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    However, the drawing shows little resemblance to the latter. Historians suggest that many of the backdrops of the drawings were copied from drawing manuals. One such example is a drawing of the greater mousedeer, the background of which shows a leafless climber attached to a rock. Some scholars query this, as mousedeer do not live in such rocky ...

  3. Woodland Sketches - Wikipedia

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    Edward MacDowell c. 1902. Woodland Sketches, Op. 51, is a suite of ten short piano pieces by the American composer Edward MacDowell.It was written during an 1896 stay at MacDowell's summer retreat in Peterborough, New Hampshire, where each piece was inspired by a different aspect of the surrounding nature and landscape.

  4. Lake with Dead Trees - Wikipedia

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    Lake with Dead Trees, also known as Catskill, is an oil-on-canvas painting completed in 1825 by Thomas Cole. Depicting a scene in the Catskill Mountains in southeastern New York State, this work is one of five of Cole's 1825 landscapes that initiated the mid-19th century American art movement known as the Hudson River School .

  5. File:Pablo Picasso, 1919, Paysage (Landscape with Dead and ...

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    File information Description Pablo Picasso, 1919, Paysage (Landscape with Dead and Live Trees) (Paisaje con árbol muerto y vivo), oil on canvas, 49.4 x 65.4 cm, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokio.

  6. In a dramatic spike, 36.3 million trees died in California ...

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    The survey counted over 36 million dead trees, which is a dramatic increase, but there still may be more that were not counted. In a dramatic spike, 36.3 million trees died in California last year ...

  7. Botanical illustration - Wikipedia

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    There are many perfectly identifiable flowers in books like The Book of Hours [11] (two volumes) by the Master of Flowers (Maître-aux-fleurs, 15th century) or Jean Bourdichon's Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany (between 1503 and 1508), with 337 plants from the Queen's garden, captioned in Latin and French. These artists' objective was, though ...

  8. 30 Color Photos Photographers Took 100 Years Ago That Still ...

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    Image credits: Photoglob Zürich "The product name Kodachrome resurfaced in the 1930s with a three-color chromogenic process, a variant that we still use today," Osterman continues.

  9. List of plants that are extinct in the wild - Wikipedia

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    Approximately 0.068% of all evaluated plant species are listed as extinct in the wild. The IUCN also lists one plant subspecies as extinct in the wild. This is a complete list of extinct in the wild plant species and subspecies as evaluated by the IUCN. All are vascular plants (tracheophytes).