S N A K E S ~ & ~ L I Z A R D S . . . in art

a 1902 sculpture,  the Netherlands
                       
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Dick Pantimatju Tjupurrula,  1980
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a Zdenek Burian illustration,  1955
       
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Louis Raemaekers,  the World War 1 use of poison gas
      
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Moriz Jung,  1906       click twice
       
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a Mark Catesby illustration,  1777
      
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Frank Frazetta
       
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an Edward Julius Detmold illustration       click twice
      
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1901 end pages of a book
       
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Paul Jouve
      
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Robert Crumb       click twice
    
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Toulouse-Lautrec,  1899
       
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an Edward Julius Detmold illustration of a mongoose & cobra       click twice
       
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Paul Jouve
    
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Charles Burns
       
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a 1917 mechanical toy alligator from Japan
       
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M.C. Escher       click twice
       
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Ronald Searle,  phony crocodile tears       click twice
       
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a Byam Shaw illustration from the 1901 poetry book 'The Garden of Kama'
       
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crocodile tears ... a George Cruikshank drawing
       
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a Léon Carré illustration

      

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Robert E. Howard's 1930s 'Conan The Barbarian' 

books were reprinted in the 1960s with cover 

illustrations by Frank Frazetta.  In 1982 Holly

-wood began the much cheapened movie

versions with Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Heinrich Kley       click twice

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William Stout
       
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an ancient Greek mosaic of Medusa with snakes for hair       click twice
       
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the 1950s & 1960s comic book "Turok Son of Stone"  was about a man and a youth trapped in a prehistoric canyon with dinosaurs
       
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a Paul Jouve illustration       see full size
       
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a Mel Crawford children's book illustration
       
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Heinrich Kley       click twice
       
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an E. McKnight Kauffer book cover illustration
       
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Andy Warhol,  1983       click twice