Zoologist exploring animal iconography via intersections of natural history w/ art & visual culture history. AKA Deniz (she/they), PhD student @ UDel.
https://linktr.ee/arthistoryanimalia
Current projects: parrots, opossums, animal alphabets…
Art History Animalia
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From The Cat’s ABC by Josie Fermin, London, 1994.
(Via Cotsen Children’s Library @ Princeton Special Collections)
#CatsInArt
#TwoForTuesday #TigerTuesday #TapirTuesday
Illustration from AN ANIMAL A B C by Harry B. Neilson (London/Glasgow/Bombay : Blackie and Son Ltd.,1918?)
Via Cotsen Children’s Library @ Princeton Special Collections
#tiger #tapir
Research update:
🎶Welcome to the Jungle,
we’ve got a reindeer and polar bear🎶 …🤷🏻♀️
(from The Jungle, Dean's Rag Books Co., NY, USA, c.1905. Cotsen Children’s Library @ Princeton Special Collections)
wow rude
So I’ve started a 1 month stint at Princeton University Library as a research grant recipient, looking at their collection of illustrated animal alphabet books…
…I’m definitely gonna write up a whole rant about the books that were too lazy to find an X animal 😭🙄
(from The Quaint ABC Zoo, c.1920)
X is for…Ark 🤨
(from Noah’s Ark ABC, c.1905)
Research update: whoopsie doodle, this book used an image of a coati for an anteater 🤨😭
(from The Animal Alphabet by Henry Morrow Hyde, USA, 1900. Cotsen Children’s Library @ Princeton Special Collections)
Research update: wow, this animal alphabet chart is a hot mess 😂😭
(Dean’s A1 Alphabet Chart, c.1920s)
@greenleejw.bsky.social little squiggly guy spotting! 👀
(from The Alphabet, London, 1769: Princeton University, Cotsen Children’s Library Special Collections)
“Xiphias” was a popular choice for those who did bother to include a real X animal, but sometimes they were still snarky about it:
(From _An alphabetical
arrangement of animals for little naturalists_, 1821)
Yup, definitely gonna write up a whole investigative report just on the X situation LOL
