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Art History Animalia

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Shaikh Zain al-Din, "Lady Imprey's Pangolin," Calcutta, 1779. Gouche on paper, 61.5 x 87.5 cm, British Library (BL Add.Or.4667). From an album commissioned by Lady Mary Impey, wife of Sir Elijah Impey, Chief Justice of Calcutta’s Supreme Court from 1774-82.
🆔 Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata)
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@art_history_animalia Lady Imprey's Pangolin, eh? The prudes were upset enough by Lady Chatterley's Lover, they'll never cope.

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Pangolins, along with platypuses, are like the weirdest mammals ever invented. They look made up in some crazed fever dream, or from the age of dinosaurs like a stegosaurus. They are amazing.