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[pwlanier]

Wyvern Weathervane

Artist:

Artist unknown

Date:

before 1900

Medium:

Copper, zinc and iron

Munson Williams Proctor

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[robert-hadley]

Fragment ( France ), gold and silk embroidery, 14th century.

Photo - Arte del Tessere

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[catholic-prepper]

Lonely Ride by Hans Thoma, 1889. Oil on canvas.

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[everythingfox]

They’re going on an adventure

(via)

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[met-cloisters]

Dish, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Cloisters

The Cloisters Collection, 1956 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/471771

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[historieofbeafts]

Saw another debate about whether it’s ever okay to write in books today & it reminded me of my favourite genre of marginalia: much worse copies of illustrations.

I’ve already posted the best bat, but it’s always worth looking at again:

[British Library, Harley MS 3244, fol. 55v]

There’s also this chicken, which was struggling even in the original:

[Kongelige Bibliotek, GKS 3466 8º,  fol.10]

& this genuinely terrible lizard:

I’m not well-versed enough in analysis to say for sure that the 16th c. scribbler responsible is the same person who provided captions for the other images in this text, but I like to think so because some of them give strong indications of a personality type that’s still recognizable today:

[I don’t have a shelfmark for these, but they’re from the UBC RBSC’s copy of Gesner’s Historia animalium. Also, the image of the donkey says “you asse” & the (notoriously gluttonous) gulon says “greedy gut” if you’re having trouble deciphering the script.]

[historieofbeafts]

Here’s another one from the Wellcome Library’s copy of The noble lyfe & natures of man, of bestes, serpentys, fowles & fisshes yt be moste knowen  (1521)

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[met-medieval-art]

Woman’s Comb, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Medieval Art

Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Medium: Ivory, paint and gilding

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/464245

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[professorerudite]

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[heaveninawildflower]

‘Two hares eating berries’ (13th century) by Ibn Bakhtishu.

Image taken from Kitab Na’t al-hayawan wa-manafi'ihi (Animals and their Uses). Joint authorship; Aristotle, Ibn Bakhtishu.

This file has been provided by the  British Library from its digital collections.

This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication

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[heaveninawildflower]

Casket with Painted Roundels (Italy, late 12th–early 13th century).

Ivory, painted; gilded silver mounts with glass, quartz, and turquoise inlays.

Images and text information courtesy The Met.