A report on a
photographic investigation by Keith Martin-Smith of weedy sea dragons sent me back to Gould's wonderful illustration from 1832
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Richard Flanagan's novel Gould's Book of Fish (2001) begins with the narrator staring in endless fascination at (if I remember correctly) a leafy sea dragon -- an idea borrowed, perhaps, from Cortazar's short story Axolotl (1953).
I just discovered your blog through a search for zoological/bestiary illustrators, and liked this picture so much I reposted on my blog.
ReplyDeleteI'll keep dropping in to see what else you write about!