You Can Now Download 150,000 Free Illustrations of the Natural World

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The artworks, collected by the open-access Biodiversity Heritage Library, range from animal sketches to historical diagrams and botanical studies


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Botanical illustrations offer mesmerizingly detailed and vividly colored glimpses of the natural world. Now, reports Hakim Bishara for Hyperallergic, more than 150,000 such artworks are freely available for download via the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), an open-access digital archive that preserves images and documents related to botany, wildlife and biodiversity.

Captured in watercolor paintings, lithograph prints and black-ink linework, the collected illustrations demonstrate the diversity of Earth’s wildlife as observed over hundreds of years. The BHL’s earliest texts date to the mid-1400s; its digital collection includes illustrations as recently created as the early 1900s.


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[Cracklin Charlie]

1. Don't have enough time for this at the moment.

Kick.

[Grasswire2]

2. fabulous

What is the main link?

[MissB]

3. Here

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/over-150000-illustrations-wildlife-are-available-online-free-180974167/

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