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‘Mosses and wandering lichens’, as Ruskin puts it in ‘The Poetry of Architecture’ (1837), ‘though beautiful, constitute a kind of beauty from which the ideas of age and decay are inseparable’.

This whole essay. I had no idea Victorians thought about lichen.

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'Study of a Piece of Brick, to show Cleavage in Burnt Clay' a very detailed look at a piece of brick with moss and lichens, watercolor by John Ruskin, a Victorian English polymath whose Wikipedia article is quite something. It shows an irregular lump, probably about apple-sized, with dark red and brown inner surfaces and brighter bluish green and dark green mosses and lichens very carefully shown, textures like velvet and tiny leaves.
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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erikagaffney.bsky.social
Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Treatment
Edited By @fabribald.bsky.social

is now available in the new warehouse -
www.routledge.com/Epistemic-Pr...

The ebook is on sale for US $42.74
Book cover in with hot pink background, title reversed out of lavender block. At top center is an early modern botanical drawing of two bulb plants.
October 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM