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April Fools (Fish of April)
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Image from J. J. Grandville's satirical and visionary masterpiece Un Autre Monde (Another World), published in 1844. The extravagant subtitle appended to the main title gives some idea of the work's scope and ambition: "Transformations, Visions, Incarnations, Ascensions, Locomotions, Explorations, Peregrinations, Excursions, Vacations, Caprices, Cosmogonies, Reveries, Whimsies, Phantasmagorias, Apotheoses, Zoomorphoses, Lithomorphoses, Metamorphoses, Metempsychoses, and Other Things." A favourite of Walter Benjamin's among others. (Image source: Boston Public Library, via Internet Archive)
- Louis Renard's Fish, Plate X Louis Renard (after Samuel Fallours)
- Basil Thyme, Poppy Anemone, and Myrtle Joris Hoefnagel
- Plate 89, Chelonia Ernst Haeckel
- Two Goldfish and a Saltwater Fish Josef Maria Eder and Eduard Valenta
- Plate 85, Ascidiae Ernst Haeckel
- Great Barrier Reef Fishes William Saville-Kent
- Plate 84, Diatomea Ernst Haeckel
- Louis Renard's Fish, Plate XX Louis Renard (after Samuel Fallours)