British & Exotic Mineralogy

August 18, 2020 10:44 AM

All of James Sowerby’s illustrations from his compendium of knowledge about mineralogy arranged by color

Plus: Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants, A complete reproduction and restoration of Elizabeth Twining’s celebrated catalog of botanical illustrations from 1868

Nicholas Rougeux previously on MetaFilter

posted by chavenet (4 comments total)

Neat. I find drawing rocks to be very difficult, mostly, I think, because I don't understand what is important about them. This is a very large collection of wonderful drawings of rocks, which seem to be focusing on the shape and color of the minerals that make up the rocks (as opposed to, say, moody lighting, or the weight of them or how paint looks or whatever.) I guess there are also cleavage planes. Anyway they are great! Thanks for the post.
posted by surlyben at 12:15 PM on August 18, 2020 [1 favorite]

What an incredibly beautiful website! Thanks for sharing.
posted by Balthamos at 1:56 PM on August 18, 2020 [1 favorite]

Neat! Followed links on the site to his store, and found these soothing national parks posters. (Rougex's digital art at Zazzle.)
posted by Iris Gambol at 3:23 PM on August 18, 2020 [1 favorite]

(claps hands in delight)
posted by TWinbrook8 at 4:40 PM on August 18, 2020 [1 favorite]