By Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad Qazwīnī

Featured on PDR in the collection Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)

Liceti likened nature to an artist who, faced with some imperfection in the materials to be shaped, ingeniously creates another form still more admirable.

Blemmyes and dog-headed beings

Date

1553

From

Kitāb al-ʻajāʾib wa al-gharāʼib (Book of Wonders and Oddities), 2010.M.65 (Getty)


Underlying Rights

Public Domain Worldwide

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