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Two white moles, one black mole, two gray moles, one mole skeleton, and two large cats described in the text as tigers, but more likely cheetahs or jaguars based on their spots rather than stripes.
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Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

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Artist Albert Seba (German, 1665 - 1736)
Date1734-1755
MediumCopperplate engraving, hand colored
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by Ben M. Carter in honor of Enrique R. Anderson (Class of '95) and Family
Object number2014.29.13
Collections
Visual DescriptionTwo white moles, one black mole, two gray moles, one mole skeleton, and two large cats described in the text as tigers, but more likely cheetahs, leopards, or jaguars based on their spots rather than stripes. Plate 32 from volume I of "Locupletissimi Rerum Naturalium Thesauri," Amsterdam: Wetsten, Smith and Waesberg, 1734-1755.
An architectural space is described by lines-an interior room with an arch. A man in a chair looks with delight at a deer with a tiger's face, leaping into the air. Another man, foreground bottom right, looks down in contemplation. His body is like a cocoon and has a fingerprint configuration of marks all over it.
Illustration for the Jolly Corner II:4
Peter Milton
1971
A painted wooden tiger with yellow fur and black spots crouches on a wheeled red platform. It has an open mouth showing teeth, a red-tipped tail, and large, expressive eyes.
Toy Tiger on Wheels
Indian Artist
20th century
Nine taxonomic illustrations of snakes and lizards from various places. At the top, an Indonesian lizard with red and black bands faces a Sri Lankan lizard with a yellow crest. At the bottom, two Sri Lankan lizards of black and white face each other, with a skeleton of an American lizard between them. In the center, a green snake and an orange snake from Sri Lanka are depicted next to a diagram of a snake egg and a reclining lizard.
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Albert Seba
1734-1755
Many different types and colors of mice/rats, both adults and babies; mouse skeleton; one bird in the top right corner with long blue beak, red, yellow, and gray body, and long red tail, standing on a tree branch.
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Albert Seba
1734-1755
Four lizards, one gray, one yellow with patterns along its back, one blue and white, one yellow-orange with a brown head, and two plants with green leaves.
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Albert Seba
1734-1755
A six-panel folding screen with image of four tigers in a bamboo grove next to a flowing stream.
Tigers in a Bamboo Grove
Tosetsu Sogetsu
Edo period (1615-1868), 18th century
A photograph featuring a tiger's face partially overlaid with dried leaves. Below sits a shelf holding paper enveloped containing small objects including a porcelain doll. Five blooming sunflowers line the bottom foreground. Transparent bubbles float across the layered composition.
Circus Envelopes II
Anna Tomczak
1994
A figure carries a tiger's pelt, naked except for their thigh high socks. In the background, birds fly around a portrait of a figure.
With Leather to Market
Vladimir Gazovic
1987
Eight taxonomic illustrations of plants and animals from the Americas. In the center, three snakes intertwine their bodies. They include a green spotted snake, a yellow and white striped water snake, and a brown and white banded water snake. Beneath them is a green frog from Suriname. To their left and right lie two aquatic plants of green and yellow. At the top of the composition, one yellow and one red bird from Mexico fly and face each other. Plate 70 from Volume II of "Locupletissimi Rerum N…
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Albert Seba
1734-1755
Polyplectron Germaini (Germain's Polyplectron or Germain's peacock-pheasant), a bird with brown and black speckled body and bright green spots in bands around its tail and wings. Two chicks are included; all three birds are in a clearing with grass and rocks in the distance.
Polyplectron Germaini
Josef Wolf
1870-1872
Light dots cover the whole picture plane. The faintest suggestion of a figure is described by more density of dots around the figure's perimeter.
The Figure in the Landscape
David A. Kremgold
1983
Anthropomorphic appliqué effigy complete with glyph painting, finely rendered upper bowl area, serpent, wave and jaguar motifs
Polychrome jar with transforming shaman lug
Costa Rican Artist
1200-1522

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