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  • Eugen Mezei said:
    What is the point of an image that presents us something but does not say what we see?

British Library digitised image from page 365 of "The Sportsman and Naturalist in Canada, or notes on the Natural History of the Game, Game Birds, and Fish of that Country ... Illustrated with coloured plates and woodcuts"

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Tashrih al-aqvam, an account of origins and occupations of some of the sects, castes and tribes of India. - caption: 'Two men wrestling.'

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