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Posts from ‘November, 2008’

Roast Dog and Aquatint

Otaheite, or modern Tahiti, is the island that James Cook visited in 1769 to observe the transit of venus. And this is the Otaheite Dog; at least that’s what this aquatint from 1788 is supposed to show. For with the dog’s awkward stance and anthropomorphic gaze, this marriage of science and art would seem to [...]