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MYTOLOGICAL ANIMALS

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Horsemen, from 'Album of Scenes from Daily Life', late Choson dynasty, 19th century. The late Choson period was a period of relative prosperity in Korea. Chin'gyong, or 'true-view' landscape paintings became fashionable among the scholar literati class, and depicted real scenes from the Korean landscape, rather than those copied from Chinese paintings. Scenes of daily life, such as this one, became popular among the growing middle class. Kim Hong-do was one of the most famous painters of these scenes. This album is one of at least two known copies of Hong-do's famous original. The paintings focus on people and their activities, with the background barely illustrated. Scenes incude schoolroom scenes, wrestling, and other everyday activities. OA, 1961.5-13.04
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Horsemen, from 'Album of Scenes from Daily Life', late Choson dynasty, 19th cent...

'Picture Puzzle of Jonah and the Whale and a Squatting Peasant', 1537. The anamorphic, or distorted, view in this large, dated print shows Jonah stepping out from an imaginative whale but the landscape is not distorted. In the foreground, the stretched inscription reads, WAS SICHST DV? ('What do you see?'), with the date and a small printer's name. To 'see' the subject correctly, a viewpoint from the lower right-hand corner is required. A squatting and defecating peasant then appears. The vulgarity is disguised by the distortion, but the goat on the far left about to charge the naked buttocks gives a clue to the woodcut's underlying peculiarity. PD, 1880-7-10-643 (CD I. 552,9)
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'Picture Puzzle of Jonah and the Whale and a Squatting Peasant', 1537. The anamo...

The snake.
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The snake.

The family.
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The family.

Fallen horse.
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Fallen horse.

The rhino.
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The rhino.

Four heads.
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Four heads.

Saint Jerome in his study. (title page of the Letters of Saint Jerome, "Epistolae beati Hieronymi", printed by Nicolas Kessler, Basel, 8 August 1492.) Woodcut, 192 x 135mm. (Vol.1. fol. A1r.)
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Saint Jerome in his study. (title page of the Letters of Saint Jerome, "Epistola...

The Knight and the Landsknecht. Around 1496. Woodcut, 391 x 284mm. (monogrammed)
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The Knight and the Landsknecht. Around 1496. Woodcut, 391 x 284mm. (monogramme...

Samson killing the Lion. Around 1497/98. Woodcut, 382 x 278mm. (monogrammed)
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Samson killing the Lion. Around 1497/98. Woodcut, 382 x 278mm. (monogrammed)

The Holy Family with three Hares. Around 1497. Woodcut, 390 x 282mm. (monogramed)
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The Holy Family with three Hares. Around 1497. Woodcut, 390 x 282mm. (monogram...

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The Revelation of Saint John (Apocalypse, III. Figure). Around 1497/98. Woodcut, 396 x 283mm. (monogrammed)
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The Revelation of Saint John (Apocalypse, I...