Musée No:218.023 Size:A4 - 297mm x 210mm The Naturalist's Miscellany or Coloured

The Naturalist's Miscellany or Coloured figures of Natural Objects

Date:1791-1862

John Curtis (1791 –1862) was an English entomologist and illustrator

lilies and other flowers at Malmaison

maybe these late summer flowers come from his gardens

Musée No:218.023 Size:A4 - 297mm x 210mm The Naturalist's Miscellany or ColouredFishes Artist: Watanabe Seitei Date: 1887 Watanabe Seitei (also Watanabe Shtei) 1851 1918 was a Japanese painter in the Nihonga style. Nihonga was a movement in the early 1900s with the aim of updating and developing a more modern Japanese style but in keeping with the traditional Japanese conventions and techniques. It emphasized the importance and beauty of the thousand year old traditional style whilst distinguishing it from the more western style