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United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution · 1892 · Washington, D.C. : Government Printing Office · 8 pictures

A Smithsonian Institution and United States National Museum publication printed in Washington, D.C. by the Government Printing Office in 1892, aimed at naturalists and museum scientists. Its plates are chromolithographed studies of bird eggs arranged in grids, each showing shell colour, ground tone and speckling in close detail, which a designer could draw on for natural palettes, organic pattern and speckled textures.

United States National Museum · Smithsonian Institution · Science · Birds · Marine fishes · Hydromedusae

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