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Tag Archives: Animals
1921: Swans
Frank William Brangwyn: The Swans (1921)
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1810: A Composite Ox with a Demon Groom
A Composite Ox with a Demon Groom (Oudh, India, ca. 1810-30) (source)
370 BC: Numberless Democrituses Like Himself
The pre-Socratic philosopher Democritus (c. 460 – c. 370 BC) believed in an infinite universe, and therefore in an infinite number of worlds. Some might be bigger or smaller than earth, he concluded; some might have more moons or suns, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1990's, 20th Century, 3rd Century, 4th Century BC, Animals, Art, Astronomy, Birds, Crows, Democritus, Great Britain, Greece, Hippolytus, Leonora Carrington, Mexico, Philosophy, Printmaking, Pseudo-Hippocrates, Women
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1655: Remedies
Selections from Thomas Lupton’s book A Thousand Notable Things on Various Subjects: Disclosed from the Secrets of Nature and Art, Practicable, Profitable, and of Great Advantage: Set Down from Long and Curious Study and Experience (1655): The Soles of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, Animals, Art, Books, Eels, Fish, Frogs, Great Britain, Mammals, Medicine, Mice, Printmaking, Snakes, Thomas Lupton, Wasps, Weasels
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1863: Rat
Adolph von Menzel: Rat in the Gutter (c. 1863-1883)
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1869: Although He Was a Cow
Curious Dreams A writer in the “Argos” says: “I remember when a boy, sleeping in a strange house, in an old-fashioned room, with an oaken store cupboard over the bed. I dreamed that I was being murdered; the assassin struck … Continue reading
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1920: Bombyx
Jehan Frison: Le Bombyx (1920)
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1918: Young Crow
Jan Mankes: Jonge kraai (1918)
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1865: O Roaches!
A quite common superstitious practice, in order to rid a house of Cockroaches, is in vogue in our country at the present time. It is no other than to address these pests a written letter containing the following words, or … Continue reading
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1947: Iridescence
Andrey Avinoff: Iridescence (1925-1947) The entomologist Andrey Avinoff emigrated from Russia to the USA after the revolution and worked at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History for 20 years, eventually becoming its director. He turned to painting only later in … Continue reading
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