mercredi 28 juillet 2010

Fisher type of fake merman


Originally sporting white hair, a beard and a mustache, this is one of a series of identical twelve-inch-long "marine monsters" made by the same artisan and then reproduced on postcards at the turn of the century (XIXe)
Courtesy of Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Venice.

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