Sarah Bowdich. The Museum's Library and Archives are home to artworks by hundreds of illustrators, naturalists and painters.. Some artists became scientific experts in their own right, thanks to hours ...

When standard artistic techniques are used to embellish the bird, it is no longer considered strictly as a good scientific illustration, even though it may be a good artwork. Pheasant coucal ...

“Scientific illustration is usually defined by the audience. You’re drawing for a scientific audience,” she explains. “I think of fine arts as that in which you work for yourself.

Relatively unknown during their lifetimes, both brothers are recognised today as pioneers of scientific natural history illustration, particularly in their use of microscopes to draw specimens in ...

Image-making, research and visual technologies have shaped each other over the past century and a half, argues Geoffrey Belknap, marking Nature’s anniversary.

More medical and scientific illustration. Max Brödel / Johns Hopkins University. Brödel studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig, Germany, in the 1880s.

Reading Anna Escardó’s SCIENCE ILLUSTRATION: Visual Milestones From the 15th Century to Today (Taschen, 436 pp., $80) is like looking over the shoulder of those scientists.

Wright’s specimen had avoided recognition for decades thanks to a long history of misidentification. When the Smithsonian Institution first catalogued the lizard on February 1, 1861, curators ...

In a field in which the communication channels that count — journal articles and grant applications — often have page limits, an illustration can be worth far more than a thousand words.

When British scientists first laid eyes on the platypus in the late 18th century, some of them thought the specimen — sent back from its native Australia — must be a hoax.

A chance discovery made in southern France has revealed a rare specimen — an almost complete dinosaur skeleton found connected from its hind skull to its tail. The massive fossil came to light ...