Fauna (Artistic)

Battista Franco (il Semolei)
Elephants and Panther
before 1561
etching and engraving
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Bartolomeo Passarotti
Study of an Eagle
ca. 1575-80
drawing
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Hans Hoffmann
Hedgehog
before 1584
watercolor and gouache on paper
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory
Rabbit Tureen
ca. 1755-56
porcelain
Gardiner Museum, Toronto

Johann Rudolf Holzhalb
Americanischer Aur-Ochs
1768
etching and engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Gambier Bolton
Two-Horned Rhinosaurus
1870
carbon print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

William De Morgan
Charger
ca. 1898
glazed earthenware
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski)
Moroccan Horseman and his Horse
1949
oil on canvas
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Jon Serl
Reptile
1965
oil on board
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Victor Joseph Gatto
Biblical Landscape with Adam and Eve
before 1965
oil on board
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Kees Timmer
Caged Mandrill
1968
oil on panel
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Atelier Populaire (Paris)
Vermine Fasciste
1968
screenprint (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Janet Kidd
Cockatoo
ca. 1980
oil on canvas
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick

Richard Bosman
Polar Bear
1981
screenprint
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Neil Winokur
Plaster Tortoise
1984
C-print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Braldt Bralds
Dinosaurs
1985
oil on panel
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Mark Dion
Serpent Hypnosis
2015
etching and screenprint
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

from Divine Epigrams

        On St. Peter cutting off Malchus his eare.

Well Peter dost thou wield thy active sword,

    Well for thy selfe (I meane) not for thy Lord.

To strike at ears, is to take heed there bee

    No witnesse Peter of thy perjury. 

– Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple (1648)