Not sure if this post would be better suited to poetry/Shakespeare's Sonnets, but as it is regarding an engraved work of art, I thought this might be a better place.
I have uploaded the item in question. It's from the top of the title page of "Shakespeare's Sonnets" and shows two grotesque animals: my question is this: what are they meant to be? Lions? dolphins? dogs?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for looking.
I do see a couple of rabbits, a couple of angels and a human face in the middle. I thought the ones you are referring to were dogs panting with their tongues out when I first looked. They seem to have four legs so that rules out dolphins. Just a guess.
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Thanks for the input YesNo,
I agree with you: they do look more like dogs. I think their mouths have been drawn to perhaps represent loud noise, such as a watch dog's bark.
I donīt want to complicate things but what looks like feet might also be small waves. So they might be dolphins, but do dolphins have tongues?
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Thanks for that Danik 2016
I believe they're formed from part of some kind of plant, therefore all of their body are stems and leaves etc. But I never considered waves.
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