# @gettymuseum on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CgF2fjMPILl
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34228159-gettymuseum-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/3c20d1e189.jpg
- **Posted:** 2022-07-16T23:22:27.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty (@gettymuseum) — https://gondola.cc/gettymuseum

## Caption

It's a bird!

It's a plane!

It's a lemon? 🍋

Gigantic fruits float, balloon-like, over Nuremberg in these surreal illustrations from Johann Christoph Volkamer’s 18th-century book on German citrus gardens. 

Browse even more books with botanical illustrations at the Getty Research Portal, a one-stop shop for public domain art history books, at portal.getty.edu

See more from Volkamer's book at the link in our bio.

#Drawings #Illustration #GermanArt #ArtHistory

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## Tags

illustration, drawings, arthistory, germanart

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