A dog in a cape runs out to greet the Queen of Bavaria in this illustration from
P.L. Jacob’s Les arts au moyen àge et à l'époque de la renaissance
(1869).
The full text with many other illustrations available here.
If you’re finding it difficult to draw birds for this year’s Draw a Bird Day, don’t get discouraged! Even famed naturalist and illustrator Abel Chapman had difficulty drawing birds sometimes, as evidenced by this page from his 1913 Sudan sketchbook.
Full text with many other drawings of birds (and other animals) here.
From Ulisse Aldrovandi’s
Vlyssis Aldrovandi philosophi ac medici Bononiensis historiam […] v.3 (1673): An illustration of a pelican feeding its young with its own blood, an old European belief about pelican behavior with no basis in reality. You may also note that the pelican in the illustration has a small sharp beak instead of the long beak and throat pouch that typifies real-world pelicans.
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