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Art History Animalia

: "Horned Frog" from The Naturalist's Miscellany, v.3,pl.76 (1791-2) by George Shaw. BHL: biodiversitylibrary.org/item/1

Maybe this Surinam Horned Frog wouldn't look so happy if it could read what Shaw wrote about it in its description...
""Should inquiry be made, which is the ugliest animal yet known to exist? The creature here represented might perhaps with justice be proposed as an answer: an animal of such prodigious deformity as even to exceed in this respect the Surinam toad...." ☹️

digitized image of a hand-colored lithograph book plate, illustration of a frog with mouth open, looks like it's laughing This is one of the South American Horned Frogs, aka Pacman Frogs (Ceratophrys spp.) - it's most often identified as a Surinam Horned Frog, C. cornuta.
Mar 21, 2023, 03:48 AM·Public·Web
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