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Dennis Hansen
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![Digital scan of the cited artwork; oval composition depicting a giant anteater in side profile seemingly surprising two dark-skinned men in a rainforest campground (identified as Rio Yucayali area), one in a hammock and one by the campfire.
“When Catlin exhibited [this] Cartoon Collection in New York in 1871, he published a catalog listing all the works. The catalog entries often included additional information about the subject of each painting. Catlin's catalog entry for this painting follows.
Cart. No. 481.
THE GREAT ANT-EATER, visiting the author’s camp on the Rio Yucayali. See Catlin’s ‘Last Rambles.’—Appleton.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l5pcfqdnvtivhxufycjnvzui/bafkreifri527r4qnm75iaq2u3vfnmztlcsd4z2gqtwrd64ia4x2mwdasva)
![Portrait of Pieter Vogelvormer, oil on canvas, by Jan Lievens, 1629 [1636?], Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena (nortonsimon.org)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gctqfxnif4zrn7rw76gnzzcu/bafkreihxcbqcj5qiyd2qsj5hghmxvgowrbtacj3qgjmmekpts5csamt4fe)
![“This Sea-Pen has a round flefhy ftem […] and fingle rows of tentaculated fuckers on each fin”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ywua4qjetzwsq5hzyty3exua/bafkreihifqphoxgzmhpfxscjd4cxy37mhorabglbhi7shsfctsgtu2w7wu)
