tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740569507462865624.post9150625326410940945..comments2024-01-27T01:51:07.872-08:00Comments on Jot101: Scary monsters - artist (almost) unknownJot101http://www.blogger.com/profile/04163335378108954329noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740569507462865624.post-39109467772995363552014-08-23T19:44:09.076-07:002014-08-23T19:44:09.076-07:00There really isn't anything surreal about the ...There really isn't anything surreal about the birds. The decay pattern where the feathers have rotted away is characteristic of buried bird corposes when dug up so he may have sketched this from "life".Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04355521785297533930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740569507462865624.post-69453254237182381102014-01-17T10:08:43.546-08:002014-01-17T10:08:43.546-08:00Insights that is. I don't want to incite the &...Insights that is. I don't want to incite the 'eats shoot and leaves' posse...Jot101https://www.blogger.com/profile/04163335378108954329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740569507462865624.post-88095985467798187082014-01-17T10:07:03.086-08:002014-01-17T10:07:03.086-08:00Many thanks Anon have passed these excellent incit...Many thanks Anon have passed these excellent incites on to RH who is fascinated by this. New avenues of research! The Darwin lead could prove profitable. NJot101https://www.blogger.com/profile/04163335378108954329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740569507462865624.post-21501263280241126662014-01-17T03:36:23.375-08:002014-01-17T03:36:23.375-08:00Another long shot: the birds look a bit like hybri...Another long shot: the birds look a bit like hybrids of plucked chickens and visualisations of the proto-bird Archaeopteryx (first fossil skeleton discovered 1861, mentioned by Darwin in the 4th edition of Origin, according to Wikipedia). So could still be satirical in some obscure way, if the monkeys are?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740569507462865624.post-27770331832281427932014-01-10T06:42:49.201-08:002014-01-10T06:42:49.201-08:00No real evidence, but your mention of Darwinism ch...No real evidence, but your mention of Darwinism chimed with this snippet from DNB (linked from Wikip) for Kenrick, John (1788–1877), historian and tutor:<br />"Although only marginally concerned with natural science itself, he did help mould Unitarian reactions to the religious controversies over Darwinism and the origins of the earth." Same source says he started a c.19-year stint as Curator of antiquities for the Yorkshire Museum a year or so before the publication of the Origin of Species (1859/60).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com