{"id":2577,"date":"2014-02-11T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T17:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=2577"},"modified":"2014-02-11T12:00:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T17:00:22","slug":"not-suitable-for-snuggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2014\/02\/11\/not-suitable-for-snuggling\/","title":{"rendered":"Not suitable for snuggling"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

These oddities, from fancy drawn,<\/strong><\/p>\n

May surely raise the question,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Will DARWIN say- by Chance<\/em> they’re formed,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Or ‘Natural Selection<\/em>?’<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Edward William Cooke originally published Grotesque Animals : invented, drawn, and described<\/em> in 1872, this version is a reprint from 1975.\u00a0 Cooke was an English landscape and marine painter who was raised among artists including his father and uncle who were both line engravers.<\/p>\n

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Cooke himself was a gifted engraver and published a series of books with plates related to shipping when he was only eighteen, you can see an example from one to your left. \"\"<\/a> The Fine Arts Library has one of these volumes entitled Sixty five plates of shipping and craft, drawn and etched by E. W. Cooke<\/a>.\u00a0 Seeing his more typical subject consisting of ships only makes these drawings of strange creatures even more jarring and shows a more fantastical side of his personality.<\/p>\n

I was struck in particular by the image below, it drew to mind the terrifying creature from Pan’s Labyrinth<\/a> that had eyeballs in its hands and consumed children for food. \u00a0To see more “invented” animals look at this volume in the Fine Arts Library<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Grotesque animals : invented, drawn, and described \/ by E.W. Cooke. London : Longmans, Green, 1975<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Thanks to Alison Harris,\u00a0Santo Domingo Project Manager for contributing this post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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