Krishna’s Victory Over Aghasura, Mewar School, Udaipur, India. Early 18th century. Ink and opaque watercolor on paper
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Mark Catesby - Nightjar and mole cricket - c. 1722
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Albrecht Dürer, Lion, 1521
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Hans Hoffman (1530-1591) - Frog
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Jacopo Ligozzi - Gerbil, (drawing, circa 1580-1600)
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Roelandt Savery, Edwards’ Dodo, oil on canvas, 82 x 102 inches, 1626
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John Robson and Sidney Herbert Lewer - Canaries, hybrids, and British birds in cage and aviary, published 1926
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Victor Brauner - Prelude to a Civilization, 1954
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Niki de Saint-Phalle, Gorgo, 1964
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Paul Klee, Der Goldfisch, 1925
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Mark Catesby (1682-1749) - from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, c. 1725
The Lion of Lucerne, rock relief in Lucerne, Switzerland, designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen and hewn in 1820–21 by Lukas Ahorn.
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Sebastião Salgado, 2010
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Cats Forming the Japanese Characters for 'Catfish', n.d.
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Ottomar Anschütz, Monkey grooming a man, Germany, 1886. Albumen silver print
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Bird perched on a lady’s finger, roll film snapshot negative by Lemuel Ingalls, 1900. gelatin on nitrocellulose roll film
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Braille edition of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Down the Rabbit Hole, from1950’s Pitman’s Shorthand Edition of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, original illustrations by John Tenniel
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Kees van Dongen, illustration from an edition of 'Le Livre des Mille Nuits Et Une Nuit' (One Thousand and One Nights') published in 1955
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The King of the Crows conferring with his political advisors, a page from the Arabic version of Kalila wa dimna, dated 1210 CE.
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Calligraphy, Mughal India,1650 (opaque watercolor & gold on paper) The artist described himself as 'The Miserable Ali'
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Utagawa Kunisada I and his school. Edo period, 19th century Japan. Polychrome woodblock print: ink and color on paper
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Albrecht Dürer – Studies of a Tree Bullfinch, 1543
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Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920), Bird, 1979.
color soft ground etching with aquatint, 23 × 30 inches
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Rabbit in Landscape with Clouds, Moon, Two Constellations
Qing dynasty, Qianlong period (1736–95) Silk on silk
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Ingeborg Tyssen - Taronga Zoo, Sydney, 1974
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Paul Klee - Memory of a Bird (1932)
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Kiki Smith, Sleeping woman with standing wolf, 2004
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Moth (Saturnia pavonia) in a floral border from the Breviary of Mary of Savoy, Lombardy ca. 1430
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Robert Longo from the series 'Perfect Gods', charcoal on paper, 2008
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Hedgehogs from a medieval bestiary, rolling in food so they can carry it home to their young
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Green Iguana by Anna Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)
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The Tropics, by Henri Rousseau, 1907
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Silk fukusa (gift cover) embroidered with a flight of cranes, Japan, 1800-50, Edo period
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Masao Yamamoto 山本昌男 - nakazora #1254
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Dürer
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Cat and Wasp By Muramasa Kudo
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Arab manuscript, ca. 1766, Traité d’hippiatrie
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Beheaded giant stoned by monkey & bear armies from Rama's Journey, from an edition of Ramayana, Deccan, India,1770
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Simen Johan, Untitled #174 from the series 'Until the Kingdom Comes', 2013, C-print
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