Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780-1850), Toy sea gulls from 'Pilgrimage to Enoshima'
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Meiji-era Japanese Artist - (John James) Audubon Opening His Box of Watercolors Destroyed by Rats, c. 1872–77
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Ants, Unknown Artist, England, ca.1250-60. Pen-&-ink drawings tinted with body color and washes on parchment
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Akitsu, 蜻蛉 (Dragon Fly) - from Ehagaki sekai / 絵葉書世界 (Postcard World). Japanese Postcard, 1908
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Animals under a night sky, from Antoine Vérard’s 'L’Art de bien vivre et de bien mourir', 1494
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Crows and the Moon by Ogata Korin (Japan, 1658-1716)
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Vincent van Gogh, Swift, 1887
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A paper butterfly found among the papers and personal effects of Walt Whitman. Probably 1850-1860.
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Jean Painlevé, Pince de Homard (Lobster Claw), 1929.
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Zdenek Burian, Illustration for Jules Verne's '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea', 1937
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Abu Yahya Zakariya’ ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini; ‘Wonders of the Seven Seas’, ca. 1203-1283 CE
beautiful but the greenglob one ,was strange.
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From: ʿAjā'ib al-makhlūqāt wa gharā'ib al-mawjūdāt by Zakariya al-Qazwini (1203-1283)
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Illustration from Zakariya al-Qazwini's Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing (13th c)
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