Thursday 2 January 2020

Happpy Bird–day - Hummingbirds




A wonderful illustration by a German called Ernst Haeckel – done in 1899

This is a poem by John Vance Cheney (an American poet) about the Hummingbird:

Voyager on golden air,
Type of all that's fleet and fair,
Incarnate gem,
Live diadem
Bird-beam of the summer day, —
Whither on your sunny way?
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  1. David M. Gascoigne,3 January 2020 at 03:27

    My word, that is an amazing illustration! I am familiar with Haeckel but I do not recall having ever seen this work. In the nineteenth century the obsessive fascination with hummingbirds almost caused the extinction of some species.

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  2. Robbie3 January 2020 at 13:43

    I have Haeckel's 'Art Forms in Nature' book that I've used several times for inspiration as well as using some of his pics for embroidery designs!

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