Squirrel Gallery

Tyll Eulenspiegel, 15th century German chapbook hero

Tyll Eulenspiegel, 15th century German chapbook hero and scatological prankster. In colorful doublet, cape and hose, with basket and tankard of jesters. From a color drawing in a travel book. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889. Illustration by Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck, lithographed by C.R. Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher

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Portrait of the daughters of Henry Somerset, 7th Duke

Portrait of Emily Blanche Charlotte, Rose Caroline and Emily Catherine Anne Somerset, daughters of Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort. Three young sisters with ringlets in satin dresses with ribbons and lace, ballet shoes. Steel engraving by J. Thomson after an illustration by Alfred Edward Chalon from Charles Heath's Portraits of the Children of the Nobility, Longmont, London, 1838

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Indian palm squirrel (Funambulus palmarum

Indian palm squirrel, Funambulus palmarum, and thirteen-lined ground squirrel, Ictidomys tridecemlineatus (Palm squirrel, Sciurus palmarum and striped American marmot, Arctomys hodii.) Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Griffith, Harriet or Edward, from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1827. Date:

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