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It is further subtitled Illustrated with Copper-Plates
This ostrich is based on an illustration from Johann Daniel Meyer’s 1748 book Angenehmer Und Nützlicher Zeit-Vertreib Mit Betrachtung Curioser Vorstellungen Allerhand Kriechender
held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 1971
is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009
Monstrous Seahorse in Pale Turquoise & Gold dragon It is further subtitled IllustratedYou are probably looking at this creature and thinking, Judith, thats clearly a Hippocampus, and you would be correct! But the book I found it in called it Equus marinus monstrosus, which translates as Monstrous seahorse. And who can resist a name like that? The book is the delightfully named Monstrorum historia, or History of Monsters, by Ulisse Aldrovandi; it dates from 1642. My monstrous seahorse is 4. 75 inches wide, stitched by hand on 5x7 inch
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