Musée No:379.031 giraffe Bird on a Branch Watching

Bird on a Branch Watching Spider

It’s difficult to believe I’d never heard of her before now

At the National Museum of Natural History in Paris

educated and modern who lived upper class lives but used their wealth and privilege to defy convention

By 1892 his work had changed again and he focused on drawings in crayons with serene subjects

Musée No:379.031 giraffe Bird on a Branch WatchingMy Old Mill Artist: William Henry Holmes Date: 1846 1933 William Henry Holmes, (1846 1933), was an American explorer, anthropologist, archaeologist, artist, scientific illustrator, cartographer, mountain climber, geologist and museum curator and director. While studying under Theodor Kaufmann in 1871 in Washington, D. C., he met Fielding B. Meek of the Smithsonian Institution, who hired him to illustrate his palaeontological reports. This was Holmess