Hon'amiKoetsu & Tawaraya Sotatsu, Japanese, early 17th century. Handscroll; ink, gold, and silver on paper.
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Yashô (Japanese, 1782-1825) “Bat in Flight”, Ink on paper
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Dragonflies Japan, 19th century. From an Album of Animals, plants and Birds by various artists
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Fresco from the Villa Poppaea Villa Oplontis, Torre Annunziata, Italy
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Bear and a Beehive, from Flore de virtu e de costumi (Flowers of Virtue and of Custom), Italy, N. (Padua?), 15th c
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Squirrels in a plane tree by Abu al-Hasan (1589 – c. 1630), Mughal India
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A hedgehog wreaking havoc in a vineyard, from a medieval Bestiary, Thérouanne ca. 1277
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Gerrit Dou, A Landscape with a Goat, ca. 1665
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Deluge from the Holkham Bible, England ca. 1320-1330
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Noah’s Ark from St Augustine, De civitate dei. Rouen, 3rd quarter of the 15th century.
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Folio from The Khawass Al-Ashjar (de Materia Medica), Persia/Iran, 13th cent CE. Ink and opaque watercolor on paper
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi ( Japan, 1797 - 1861), the Little God Yoshihiko aboard a small boat
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Ruh holding celestial spheres from Zakariya al-Qazwini‘s ‘Aja’ib al-makhluqat wa-ghara’ib al-mawjudat
Iran,16th c CE
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