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Black-and-white woodcut of a fox-like animal with an ape-like face standing over small young, with printed caption text above.

Simivulpa, or Apish Foxe, woodcut from Topsell's Four-Footed Beastes

A black-and-white woodcut from a 1607 natural history of four-footed beasts shows a fox-like animal with an ape-like face, its body long and furred, standing over a cluster of small young. The printed caption above reads "of the Simivulpa, or Apish Foxe," and the page is marked 50 in the margin.

Artist
Edward Topsell
Date
1607
Medium
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
4000 × 3069 px
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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1607.
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