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| Marten de Vos the Elder Unicorn ca. 1572 oil on panel Staatliches Museum, Schwerin |
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| Antonio Tempesta Leopard before 1630 etching and engraving British Museum |
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| Pieter Withoos Great Titmouse before 1693 watercolor and gouache on paper Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Anonymous Artist working in Naples Donkey 18th century painted wood, plaster and burlap (crèche figure) Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Thomas Weaver White-faced Ram 1818 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Henry Brittan Willis Portrait of a Cow ca. 1840 drawing Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand |
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| Roger Fenton Elephantine Moa (Dinornis elephantopus) 1854-55 salted paper print from glass negative Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Eugène Verboeckhoven Bull's Head 1857 oil on canvas Wednesbury Museum and Art Gallery, Sandwell, West Midlands |
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| Louis Wain Cat ca. 1920 watercolor and gouache on paper Bethlem Museum of the Mind, London |
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| Albert Renger-Patzsch Snake Head 1927 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Niklaus Stoecklin Marken Müller, Freiestrasse 77, Basel 1948 lithograph (poster) Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Francis Bacon Study of a Baboon 1953 oil on canvas Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Bernard Meadows Maquette for Crab 1957 plaster Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Victor Brauner Bestiaire 1963 screenprint Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Daryl Trivieri Turtle 1990 acrylic on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Louise Bourgeois Spider 1997 bronze National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Jeff Koons Caterpillar (with Chains) 2002 painted aluminum and rubber-coated steel Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
from The British Museum Reading Room
Under the hive-like dome the stooping haunted readers
Go up and down the aisles, tap the cells of knowledge –
Honey and wax, the accumulation of years –
Some on commission, some for the love of learning,
Some because they hope these walls of books will deaden
The drumming of the demon in their ears.
– Louis MacNeice (1939)