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Sigrid Granfelt (Finnish, 1868-1942) - Reposing Dog

#mammals #canines #dogs #Sigrid Granfelt

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#TurtleTuesday :

Hunt Slonem (American, b. 1951) Turtle Tondo, 1986 Oil on canvas, D 36 in. (91.44 cm)

#reptiles #turtles #tortoises #Hunt Slonem

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contemplative Pegasus resting J. Gordon Legg

#mythical #pegasus #Gordon Legg

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Joris Hoefnagel and Georg Bocskay - Dragonfly, Pear, Carnation, and Insect - 16th c. - via Getty Open Content

#bugs #insects #dragonflies #Joris Hoefnagel #Georg Bocskay

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Lionel Lindsay (Australian, 1874 - 1961) - Siesta

#mammals #felines #cats #Lionel Lindsay

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🦀 Annual report of the New Jersey State Museum Trenton, N.J.: MacCrellish & Quigley, State Printers, 1902-1915.

#marine life #crustaceans #crabs #mussel crab

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William Weekes (British, 1856-1909)

'The meeting of the savants'

signed 'WEEKES.' (lower right)

oil on board

Bonhams

#birds #waterfowl #geese #domestic geese #mammals #ungulates #equids #donkeys #William Weekes

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I’ve squirreled away a modest collection of vintage squirrel imagery.

#mammals #canines #dogs #rodents #squirrels #C. Barnes

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Medieval kittens, from a 13th century English manuscript, (Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 533, fol. 13r) 

#mammals #felines #cats

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Foxy: my collection of vintage fox imagery.

#mammals #canines #foxes #red foxes #Edmund Caldwell #fave

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Illustrations from The German and Viennese Cookbook, 1956

#mammals #ungulates #bovines #cattle #suidae #pigs #caprids #goats

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Five seagulls above turbulent sea | Ohara Koson (1877-1945)

#birds #gulls #Ohara Koson

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"M&F Flammeous Flycatcher (Muscicapa flammea)"

Indian Zoology; Second Edition. Translated from the Latin of Johann Reinhold Forster by John Aikin, M. D. Illustrated by Peter Mazell. 1790.

Internet Archive

#birds #passerines #minivets #orange minivet #Peter Mazell

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The Alpine Spaniel of St. Bernard

A Natural History of British and Foreign Quadrupeds. Written by James H. Fennell. 1843.

Internet Archive

#mammals #canines #dogs #working dogs #saint bernards

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Virginia Wildlife; vol. 30, no. 10. October, 1969. Cover illustration by William D. Rodgers, Jr.

Internet Archive

#birds #raptors #hawks #red-tailed hawk #William D. Rodgers Jr.

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Cow and Calf Elk | Olaus Murie (1889-1963)

#mammals #ungulates #cervids #elk #Olaus J. Murie

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🕷 American spiders and their spinningwork. V.3 Academy of natural sciences of Philadelphia, 1889-93.

#bugs #arachnids #spiders #orbweavers #jeweled orbweaver #nordmann's orbweaver