Stories
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Drawing the human animal
We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.
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The intimate and invasive art of ethical taxidermy
Does displaying dead animals bring us closer to nature, or drive us further apart?
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Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
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Two owls and another bird on a bough. Watercolour by W. Deane, 1966.
Deane, Winifred, active approximately 1966-1967.Date: 15.12.66 [15 December 1966]Reference: 2924529iPart of: Adamson Collection
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Kiwis foraging on the shore and two burrowing owls by their burrow. Colour halftones after J. Green.
Green, J.Reference: 43129i- Books
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The mourning saint among the willows: or, heavenly music regain'd. Extracted from Psalm Cxxxvii. Verses 1,2,3. We hung our Harps upon the Willows in the Midst thereof. By the Rivers of Babylon there we sat down, yea, we wept; for they that carried us away Captive required of us a Song, and they that wasted us required of us Mirth. Isaiah, Chapter XIII. Verse 21. But the wild Beasts of the Desart shall lie there; and their Houses shall be full of doleful Creatures, and Owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there. By John Gibbons, a protestant preacher of the Gospel; out of all duty.
Gibbons, John, -1765.Date: 1772
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A nocturnal scene with three owls. Coloured chalk lithograph.
Reference: 40228i
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A goddess (Bellona?) surrounded by stags, rabbits or hares, demons and owls. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
Delaune, Etienne, 1518?-1583.Date: 1560Reference: 25876i