Comments on: John Day's Orchids

John Day's Orchids

frykitty — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 09:44:56 -0800

The orchid scrapbooks of John Day. Over the course of 40 years, John Day participated in the popular Victorian pursuit of orchid collection. He collected his stunning paintings of the plants into 53 scrapbooks, a selection of which is available online at the Kew Royal Botanical Gardens. [via the remarkable BibliOdyssey]

By: iconomy

iconomy — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 09:55:46 -0800

Oh My God. This is good. The gorgeous drawings. These scrapbooks are making me deliriously happy right now. I concur with the remarkability of peacay's BibliOdyssey.

By: headspace

headspace — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:09:41 -0800

This is awesome, thank you for sharing!

By: Gator

Gator — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:09:51 -0800

The flowers are pretty, but I'm bookmarking BibliOdyssey.

By: frykitty

frykitty — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:21:32 -0800

The flowers are pretty, but I'm bookmarking BibliOdyssey. The flowers may have partly been an excuse to call attention to the blog. Maybe. Mmmhmm.

By: raedyn

raedyn — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:42:48 -0800

Huzzah!

By: carter

carter — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:55:12 -0800

Excellent, thanks frykitty! (and thanks peacay ...)

By: jann

jann — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:24:10 -0800

overwhelmingly beautiful, thanks!