Title: Broadside with 48 scenes of birds
Publisher: José María Marés (Spanish, active ca. 1850–70)
Date: c. 1860–70
Medium: Wood engraving
Dimensions: Sheet: 17 5/16 × 12 5/8 in. (44 × 32 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 1978.643.59(12)
Title: Broadside with 48 scenes of quadrupeds (animals)
Publisher: José María Marés (Spanish, active ca. 1850–70)
Date: c. 1860–70
Medium: Wood engraving
Dimensions: 16 15/16 × 12 3/16 in. (43 × 31 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 1978.643.59(9)
For instance, in certain islands not tenanted by mammals, some of the endemic plants have beautifully hooked seeds; yet few relations are more striking than the adaptation of hooked seeds for transportal by the wool and fur of quadrupeds.
"On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life" - Charles Darwin
This picture reveals what Mandy's parents looked like when they were kids. Also, we see Mandy as her true self as a toddler, a teenager, and an adult. Oh...And Billy is there too for some odd reason.
Broadside with images of 36 birds
Publisher: Juan Llorens (Spanish, active Barcelona, ca. 1855–70) Date: 1860
Medium: Wood engraving
Dimensions: 17 1/4 x 12 1/4 in. (43.8 x 31.1 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1978.643.22(1)
Broadside with 36 images of quadrupeds (animals)
Publisher: Juan Llorens (Spanish, active Barcelona, ca. 1855–70)
Date: 1862
Medium: Wood engraving
Dimensions: 17 5/16 x 13 1/8 in. (44 x 33.3 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1978.643.25(3)
We may conclude that the whole area of the Pampas is one wide sepulchre of these extinct giant quadrupeds.
"Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, 1832-36" - Charles Darwin