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Paintings of hammerhead sharks depicted in the "Oki National Products Illustration Notes". From Japan, Edo Period, 1735 CE
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You might flip: vintage magazines.
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Limestone sculpture of a woman uncovered near Elche, Spain, 5th-4th century BC
from The National Archaeological Museum, Madrid
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Artist's Sketch of a Sparrow (ca. 1479–1458 B.C.)
Reign: Joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III - The Met
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'The Graveyard' from the blue bird by Maurice Maeterlinck, illustrated by Frederick Cayley Robinson, 1920.
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Hedgehog-shaped jar, Neolithic period (3500-3000 BCE)
Courtesy Alain Truong
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October is #BatAppreciationMonth! Here they are being fully appreciated in plate 67 from Ernst Haeckel’s dazzling Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms of Nature), published in 1904. More about the image, including details of the line-up, here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/ernst-haeckel-s-bats-1904
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Ed Ruscha From the "Sunset Boulevard" Series, Filthy McNasty's on the Sunset Strip, West Hollywood 1966
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In the Forest. Fedoskino laquer painting, artist Scherbakov (Russia, 1972).
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1920 Silver plated table lamp designed by Marius-Ernst Sabino. From Art Deco, Art Nouveau & 20th Century Decoratif Arts Group, FB>
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Albert Bierstadt (American, 1830–1902), "A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie" (detail), 1866
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