Sunday Safari - Goodbye Tiger

1960's wooden Tiger wall plaque, originally from a French Circus, at Fears and Kahn

We are approaching the end of The Year of the Tiger 

and I wanted to salute these majestic, wonderful creatures 

who unfortunately are constantly under threat of extinction.

Long live the Tiger!

André Hellé, Grosses bêtes and petites bêtes, 1912,

thanks to the always wonderful A Journey Round My Skull

  Sergio Ruffolo, Tigre homemade greeting card

 Meg Hunt for the Cloudy Collection

Celestino Piatti, illustration for Der goldene Apfel: Eine Geschichte, 1970

found thanks to a lovely post about tigers on Booktryst

Cathie Bleck, Tiger

 Ian McArthur, Tiger

Jan Młodożeniec, Tygrysek, 1961 

Sebastiano Ranchetti, Little Tiger

 Atsushi Hara

Dale Maxey, illustration from The Wild and woolly animal book, 1966,  

thanks to Bonito Club

 Pierre Bevès, Le tigre en bois, 1961, thanks to maptitefabrique

Antonio Ligabue, Tigre con ragno, 1953

 Józef Wilkon, Ksiega Dzungli (the Jungle book)

Serpent Safari

naga-gogo by tarudesign

Some sinuous slithery snakes and lots of great new artists!

The First Book of Snakes cover by Paul Wenck, 

thanks to Calsidyrose and Freaky Fauna

Rainbow Snake Huichol yarn painting by Justo Benitez Sanchez

Cro talo e qualo by Andrea Marescalchi

Hannah Stouffer

 Aguis by Jason Laferrera

 Paper Vipers of Inequity by Dan Funderburgh

Obrigado Snake by Skinny LaMinx

Serpentis by Harry Diaz

 Snake Christmas card by Sergio Ruffolo

Guerra de la Paz

Rainbow Snake Dreaming by Malcolm Jagamarra

spread from El Leon Kandinga by Elisa Arguilé

Olimpia Zagnoli

Sunday Safari - The lonely wanderer

Saverio Polloni, from the collection of Emilio Gargioni

Portraits of a vanishing warrior

Józef Wilkon

Gaetano Pompa

Gaetano Pompa, 1974, from the collection of Emilio Gargioni

Sarah Young

Franz Borghese, Rinoceronte da sera, 1971, 

from the collection of Emilio Gargioni

Leandro Castelao, thanks to Grain Edit

Sergio Ruffolo

Kayama Matazo, 1960

Armando Villegas, 1983, from the collection of Emilio Gargioni

Jorge Zambrano, from the collection of Emilio Gargioni

Alexandra de Lazareff

Jean Lebenstein, 1971, from the collection of Emilio Gargioni

Walton Ford, Loss of the Lisbon Rhinoceros

Many thanks to the great rhinoceros art collector Emilio Gargioni!