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🦨 The class Mammalia London: Printed for Geo. B. Whittaker, 1827.

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Born #onthisday in 1746, the great Spanish artist Francisco de Goya. See his wonderful series of etchings depicting “the innumerable foibles and follies to be found in any civilized society” — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-whims-1799-and-the-follies-1815-23-of-francisco-goya #otd

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Insectes - Émile-Allain Séguy - 1925 - via Paris bibliothèques

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Damwild, Steinbock und Hase - Philipp Ferdinand de Hamilton - 1723 - via The Belvedere

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A Gnome by Tree Roots, 1928 by Arthur Rackham Oil on canvas, 1928 Private Collection

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Naturgeschichte der Säugetiere - G. H. Schubert - 1889 - via Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

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From my zine "By Thy Shape" about beast-men, shape-shifters and queer monsters

The text is from Carmilla by J. S. Lefanu

Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours. I live in your warm life, and you shall die -- die, sweetly die -- into mine.

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Avebury Stone Circle, Avebury, Unesco World Heritage Site, Wiltshire, England By Adam Woolfitt

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Linen Funerary Pall

c. 17th century

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quilt by Chinami Terai

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From my zine "by thy shape" about Queer bodies & folklore

Poem text reads:

Tam Lin was stolen frae the aipple tree (and pleasaunt is the fairy-land) for ripe was his flesh an' sweet his bluid and his shape-shifty like ony sand (and Janet's awa to Carterhaugh as fast as she can flie) (what they did I cannot tell the green leaves between do lie) His slippery skin is not his ain (an eerie tale tae tell) they'll use his rose-ripe body as a sacrifice (to pay a teind tae Hell) 'If I'm a prize let me be yours,' -- (o win me, win me, for your ain) they'll show her a' his shapes the esk, wolf, adder and hot-airn

Is a shape a thing entire -- o the esk and adder cannot fright her even as a bear it doesn't use its fangs every shape he takes she'll hauld him tighter -- (O cast your green kirtle ower me to keep me frae the rain) (an what they did I cannot tell the green leaves were in between)

Based on Tam Lin (Child 39)

Foot of page:

an eerie tale to tell -- Ay at the end of seven years - we pay a tiend to hell; I'm sae fair and fu o flesh - I'm feard it be mysel

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Icones plantarum cryptogamicarum - Carl Friedrich Philipp Martius - c.1828-1834 - via e-rara

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Total eclipse of the Sun, July 1860, illustrated by astronomer Warren de la Rue.

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I had copies printed for this collage zine about Queer bodies, folklore, shape-shifting and monsters. RightVillainousCo on Etsy :)

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The naturalist's library - Sir William Jardine - 1833 - via Internet Archive

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David Cambell, The Whore of Babylon, Illustrations of Prophecy, 1840

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“Portrait of a Young Man”, c.1561 by Alessandro Allori (1535–1607). Italian Mannerist painter. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. oil on canvas

Alessandro Allori