{"id":78,"date":"2015-08-08T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2015\/08\/08\/britpics\/"},"modified":"2015-08-08T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T00:33:00","slug":"britpics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2015\/08\/08\/britpics\/","title":{"rendered":"BritPics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/britishlibrary\/\">the British Library<\/a> has over one million public domain illustrations on Flickr, organized into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/britishlibrary\/albums\">albums<\/a> for easier browsing. I&#8217;ve only made it through six pages of the <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/s\/aHsjTQMYST\">&#8220;Fauna&#8221;<\/a> collection so far but have already found some real gems:<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/britishlibrary\/11294725775\/in\/album-72157641858423503\/\" title=\"Image taken from page 570 of 'Travels in Africa during the years 1875-1878 (1879-1883-1882-1886) ... Translated from the German by A. H. Keane ... Illustrated'\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7399\/11294725775_5211ae7428_n.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"196\" alt=\"Image taken from page 570 of 'Travels in Africa during the years 1875-1878 (1879-1883-1882-1886) ... Translated from the German by A. H. Keane ... Illustrated'\" \/><\/a><br \/>An otter eating a fish.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/britishlibrary\/11002829506\/in\/album-72157641858423503\/\" title=\"Image taken from page 607 of 'Travels and adventures in Southern Africa ... comprising a view of the present state of the Cape Colony, with observations on the progress and prospects of British emigrants. Second edition'\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2839\/11002829506_37bf261fa5_n.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"169\" alt=\"Image taken from page 607 of 'Travels and adventures in Southern Africa ... comprising a view of the present state of the Cape Colony, with observations on the progress and prospects of British emigrants. Second edition'\" \/><\/a><br \/>Possibly an aardvark?<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/britishlibrary\/11236988894\/in\/album-72157641858423503\/\" title=\"Image taken from page 241 of 'De Sanskulotten in Vlaanderen, of De Heldenstrijd der Boeren in 1798'\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5545\/11236988894_6ee9cf0c35_n.jpg\" width=\"228\" height=\"320\" alt=\"Image taken from page 241 of 'De Sanskulotten in Vlaanderen, of De Heldenstrijd der Boeren in 1798'\" \/><\/a><br \/>Side-eye dog.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/britishlibrary\/11285612254\/in\/album-72157641858423503\/\" title=\"Image taken from page 233 of 'Aileen Aroon: a memoir [of a dog]. With other tales of faithful friends and favourites, sketched from the life'\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2836\/11285612254_1cc820e95b_n.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"320\" alt=\"Image taken from page 233 of 'Aileen Aroon: a memoir [of a dog]. With other tales of faithful friends and favourites, sketched from the life'\" \/><\/a><br \/>Devious cat.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/britishlibrary\/11097693003\/in\/album-72157641858423503\/\" title=\"Image taken from page 59 of 'The Child's Book of Poetry. A selection of poems, ballads and hymns'\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7430\/11097693003_4b57e357bd_n.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"315\" alt=\"Image taken from page 59 of 'The Child's Book of Poetry. A selection of poems, ballads and hymns'\" \/><\/a><br \/>Demanding kittens.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, lots of images, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"Curtis\" title=\"Curtis\" border=\"0\" height=\"32\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the British Library has over one million public domain illustrations on Flickr, organized into albums for easier browsing. I&#8217;ve only made it through six pages of the &#8220;Fauna&#8221; collection so far but have already found some real gems: An&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artcriticism","category-randomresearch"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}