Posts voor Chef’s Special: A Taste of the Collections
Special Collections holds 72 beautiful images of G. Pusch and W. Schmidt. Berlin: Paul Paery, 1900-1910. The so-called Wandtafeln zur Beurteilung des Rindes can be seen in the WUR Image Collections in detail.
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From: De koe : groot model (half levensgroot), aanschouwelijk uit- en inwendig voorgesteld door beweegbare platen / H.M. Kroon. Deventer : Kluwer, [ca. 1912] In the WUR Image Collections you’ll also find drawings of the organs and the muscles of the cow. The plates were used in animal husbandry classes.
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Plant parts of potato Solanum tuberosum L. cv. Alemaria by Antonia Koornneef, 1971 Watercolour and pencil, 20.5 x 29.4cm. This scientific drawing of several stages of growth of a potato was made by Antonia (‘Tonie’ or ‘Tons’) Koornneef (16 May 1919 to 12 December 2012). She worked at the ‘Government Institute for Research on Varieties
Malus x purpurea ‘Aldenhamnensis’ Who isn’t cheered up by a drawing of a crab apple blossoming in spring? The drawing was made by Wil Brand (later Wil Wessel-Brand) and dated 14 May 1968. At the time, Wil Brand worked at the Laboratory for Botany and Geography of Wageningen Agricultural College. This botanical pen drawing is
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Drawing by Suzon van Bovene-Beynon (1896, Batavia – 1968, The Hague) of black spot disease in cauliflower. WUR Image Collections boasts 880 of her beautiful and accurate illustrations of plant diseases and pests. Suzon van Bovene-Beynon worked at the experimental station for greenhouse vegetable and fruit cultivation in Naaldwijk between 1946 and 1955. She was
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Malus ‘John Downie’ This detailed drawing by Elisabeth Riemer-Gerhardt is dated 21 September 1956. Elisabeth Riemer-Gerhardt was born in 1930 in Buitenzorg (former Netherlands East Indies, now Indonesia). She worked in the Biosystematics department of the Agricultural College in the 1950s and 1960s. Besides her work as a botanical illustrator, she also decorated ceramics. Elisabeth
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From: Aantal stuks pluimvee en schapen per bedrijf per gemeente(n). ‘s-Gravenhage, [ca. 1963]. Speccoll. RKk.III, Nederland
Poultry and sheep in the Netherlands in 1963 Read More »
From: C. S. Th. van Gink’s Poultry paintings / C.S.Th. van Gink, A.W. van Wulfften Palthe and P.C.M. Simons. Beekbergen : Dutch Branch of the World’s Poultry Science Association (WPSA), 1992. The book with beautiful poultry paintings by van Gink was presented to the participants of the 19th World’s Poultry Congress, Amsterdam 20-24 sept. 1992.
From: Collection des modèles anatomiques de cheval, vache, mouton et humain /L.T.J. Auzoux. [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1876-1891. Since 1876 Wageningen UR has owned paper-mache anatomic models made by Dr Louis Auzoux (1797-1880) including a life-size model of a stallion. The anatomical model of the horse is made of painted paper mache and iron wire. The
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From: Handleiding bij het groote model van het paard, aanschouwelijk voorgesteld door vijf beweegbare platen / Eugenius Antonius Ludovicus Quadekker. Deventer : Kluwer, [ca. 1910] The images of the anatomy of the horse were used in Animal Science education. Quadekker was born in Axel, Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, in 1854 and died in 1938 in Nijmegen. Quadekker also published a book about horse races painted by Otto Eerelman.