THE HARPY, TAKEN AT THE LAKE OF FAGNA ON OCTOBER 6, 1829 (La Harpie prise au Lac de Fagna le 6 Octobre 1829)
THE HARPY, TAKEN AT THE LAKE OF FAGNA ON OCTOBER 6, 1829 IMAGINE THE FEAR During a huge storm, a horrible creature appeared on the shores of the of the lake of Fagna in Peru. Captured and transformed into a fairground animal, it terrified the crowd, even in This is what this image printed in Montbéliard in 1830 by the Deckherr brothers tells us. To create this horrible harpy, horned, covered with scales and equipped with webbed and clawed legs, it was enough to take pieces of several known animals, the bull, the bat, the snake, the eagle and even the man of which it took breasts and expressive Our imagination always feeds on what we know!
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