Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka – Glass Models: Blaschka Books

Drawing upon Nature contains reproductions of 59 of the more than 900 drawings of invertebrate animals and plants created by the father and son flameworking team Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka. It also includes two essays.

Botanical Museum of Harvard University.

Contents: Sea creatures in glass : the Blaschka marine animals at Harvard / James Hanken and Jane Pickering -- The Blaschka models of marine invertebrates / Florian Huber -- Attention to detail : restoring the collection of Blaschka marine invertebrates / Elizabeth R. Brill.

Contents: Introduction: The quest for the living Blaschka animals -- Anemones and corals : rooted lives of at-risk animals -- Jellyfish : the rise of the medusa -- Worms : ecosystem engineers undercover -- Sea slugs : fire stealers of the deep -- Octopus and squid : shape-shifters under pressure -- Sea stars : keystone species in glass -- The voyage of our Blaschka biodiversity -- Appendix: A primer on the Blaschka Tree of Life.

Essay "Wo die Vergänglichkeit die Ewigkeit trifft : die Glasgeschöpfe von Leopold und Rudolf Blaschka" by Martin Rasper.

Contents: Maîtres et modèles, un nom: Blaschka! -- La redécouverte: analyses et restauration -- Portfolio -- L'inventaire.

Blaschka sea creatures at the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève

Contents: Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka and natural history in the 19th century / Chris Meechan, Dr. Henri Reiling -- Medusae: all things bright and beautiful / Dorothy Cross -- Works -- History.

Contents: Ein Meer aus Kunst und Wissenschaft: Leopold und Rudolf Blaschka: Kunsthandwerker, Glasmodelleure, Naturforscher / Meike Niepelt -- ... von unserer aufrichtigen Vorliebe zur Naturwissenschaft geleitet / Henri Reiling -- Art or science? The glass flower models at Harvard University / Susan M. Rossi-Wilcox -- Appearances all the way down: the glass flowers as scientific models / Lorraine Daston -- Faszination des Unscheinbaren: Zoologische Modelle in Lehre und Ausstellungen / Sabine Hackethal -- Das gelobte Land der Zoologen : Meeresbiologie und das Tübinger Naturalienkabinett im 19. Jahrhundert / Alfons Renz -- Naturstoffe aus Neptuns Reich / Franz Brümmer, Ralph O. Schill -- Quallen, Schwämme, Tintenfische: eine kurze Einführung in die Biologie der Wirbellosen / Bärbel Foese-Mallot.

Contents: Crystal creatures : context for the Dublin Blaschka Congress / Julia D. Sigwart -- From reference specimen to verisimilitude : the Blaschkas' penchant for botanical accuracy / Susan M. Rossi-Wilcox -- The Blaschka models of the Humboldt University of Berlin and their historical context / Sabine Hackethal -- Learning through glass : the Blaschka marine models in North American post secondary education / Ruthanna Dyer -- Enchanted invertebrates : Blaschka models and other simulacra in National Museums Scotland / Geoffrey N. Swinney -- The Natural History Museum Blaschka collections / C. Giles Miller and Miranda Lowe -- Mezzanine art, or the stor(e)y between science and art / Thomas A.P. Van Leeuwen -- Abstracts from original presentations contributed to the Dublin Blaschka Congress. Published in Historical Biology, v. 20, no. 1, March 2008.