Flowers, Butterflies and Insects

Flowers, Butterflies and InsectsThe splendid engravings in this historic book combine beautiful images of roses, butterflies, tulips, caterpillars, and other specimens of plant and insect life in elegant full page compositions. Representing a notable achievement from a great age of floral painting and the engraver's art, they reach across the centuries to us with undiminished freshness and appeal, revealing the most delicate nuances of natural forms with a scientist's eye for

1949 edition

To make his book more useful Father Wieger has also incorporated a tremendous number of reading aids for the student: listings of the primitives

Here is a nearly limitless royalty-free sourcebook of authentic Art Nouveau design inspiration

and finishing (including recipes for finishes)

books on magic shops

Roessing of Chicago

angled line

natural product

classic library

with each section illustrating one of Ernst's "seven deadly elements

parish clerks

including a 1958 interview with Robie