"August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof (1705-1759) was a German descendent of Austrian nobility and showed an early aptitude for painting. Following an apprenticeship with his artist-uncle and further study at the Academy of Nuremberg, Rösel obtained an appointment at the royal court in Copenhagen painting portraits and miniatures." [continues in a previous Rosenhof post: Ranarum Nostratium]
Three volumes from 'Insecten-Belustigung' (Insect Amusements) by AJ Rösel von Rosenhof are available from the University of Heidelberg (click through and look for 'Vorschau' = thumbnails). The books were released in installments between 1746 and 1761.
A happy and safe religious/irreligious/silly season to all!
You, too!
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Awesome
ReplyDeleteBest wishes to you Peacay for the festive season!
ReplyDeletethank you for providing a constant source of delight and wonder this year through your fabulous blog!
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happiness to you, too. and silliness!
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I have bookmarked this one for future reference. I make paper butterflies from old and falling apart Victorian books. I base my creations on B&W Victorian illustrations of butterflies. This could prove rather useful since I plan to explore colour sometime time in the next few weeks. Lovely!
ReplyDeleteThank you Peacay. Merry Christmas :)
Thank you for your wonderful informative presentations... Love them all...
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Gorgeous post; I am so thrilled to have discovered your blog! I look forward to reading your book.
ReplyDeletequé maravillosas imagenes!
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I would like the Locusta Indica stick bugs for Christmas (on paper only)
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And how did Diana of Ephesus make her way in with the moths and locusts, I should like to know?
ReplyDeleteAs always, swarms of holiday greetings!
Some of these insects look like they were designed by a master jeweller - amazing.
ReplyDeleteThank you for this beautiful blog and greetings for the silly season.
Fabulous, thank you. I have it bookmarked.
ReplyDeleteI hope you don't think me critical, or presumptuous, but there is a software package called "Irfanview" which has capability of rotating images by as little as 1% - it may help you with those slightly tilted images.
No, it's a fine suggestion Roberto and I use Irfanview so I know about it. I very occasionally do use the tilting capability but I find it to be a bigg-ish hassle. It's either having to tweak the background fill-in colour it leaves once the adjustment is made (which is always trial and error and timeconsuming when you multiply by many images) or adding the finished image to photoshop or MS Paint to make the background regular and the same colour. If I sound like I'm moaning a bit, it's because I am: it's just a bit more of an annoyance (for me) than I'd like so I avoid it and rationalise it away by thinking that I'm therefore displaying more natural images, as it were.
ReplyDeleteWhat a simply magnificent series of drawings.
ReplyDeleteI love these images - I hope it is ok - I posted a couple on my blog. They are so beautiful. I also came across the Beatrix Potter images from one of your 2008 postings - the Hare sitting on the carpet. Thank you for this! It is wonderful...
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