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Hippocampe sautant à travers les vagues

A detailed black and white engraving of a hippocampus, a mythical creature with the head and forequarters of a horse and the tail of a fish, leaping through stylized ocean waves on a textured cream-colored background.

An engraved plate of a hippocampus with the forequarters of a horse and a scaled fish tail, leaping through crested waves, fine crosshatching, sixteenth-century maritime bestiary style on cream paper, no lettering. Voir plus

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