Mastodawn

#MonotremeMonday :
Duckbill ( #Platypus ) - Herend Animal Figurine 15420-0-00 VHN - Black Fishnet
Herend Porcelain Manufactory, Hungary
Hand-painted & gilded porcelain
H: 5.5 cm (2.25"H), L: 18 cm (7"L), W: 8 cm (3.25"W), Wt: 015 kg
https://www.herendanimals.com/product/duckbill-15420-0-00-vhn-black-fishnet-herend/

Art History Animalia Jan 7, 2025

#MonotremeMonday :
Liebig Chromos trade card series 1359, MAMMIFÈRES BIZARRES: 6)L’0rnithorhynque ( #Platypus ), 1937
7.1 x 11cm
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PM_110584_Liebig_Chromos.jpg

File:PM 110584 Liebig Chromos.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

Art History Animalia Dec 17, 2024

#MonotremeMonday classic:
Plate LXIV Monotremata
Johnson’s Household Book of Nature, 1880
“Porcupine Anteater” = #Echidna
“Duck Mole” = #Platypus
via Biodiversity Heritage Library: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/122829#page/1036/mode/1up

Johnson's household book of nature - Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.

Art History Animalia Aug 6, 2024

#MonotremeMonday:
#Echidna #petroglyph, 90cm
from the 'Echidna and Fish' site at West Head in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, NSW, Australia
via Australian Museum: https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/atsi-collection/australian-archaeology/indigenous-rock-engraving-of-an-echidna/

#AboriginalArt #IndigenousArt #AustralianArt

Rock engraving of an echidna

What we know about this Aboriginal rock engraving in Sydney.

The Australian Museum

John McChesney-Young Jul 4, 2023

@webuiltthiscity Saw and thought of you:
#MammalMonday #MarsupialMonday #MonotremeMonday mashup:
"Scene in #Tasmania, with Characteristic Mammalia": #Thylacines, #Bandicoots, #Wombats, and an #Echidna!
Pl.XI in Alfred Russel Wallace's The Geographical Distribution of Animals Vol. 1, 1876; illustration by Johann Baptist Zwecker.

https://archive.org/details/geographicaldist01wall2/page/n503/mode/1up

#biogeography #zoology #naturalhistoryart #sciart #bookart
https://historians.social/@art_history_animalia/110653225754500667