wash, dry, fold

BibliOdyssey posted some beautiful botanical drawings by George Edwards, after Mark Catesby.

why did Edwards copy the drawings? Were the originals lost? I don’t know.

I think they’re cute and funny, but than everything makes me laugh these days.

Mouse Reading Newspaper, originally uploaded by peacay.

bespectacled mouse illustration by Beatrix Potter (1890).
apparently she loved drawing mice reading newspapers.
via Bibliodyssey