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🖼George Stubbs, Cheetah and Stag with Two Indian Attendees, c.1765
A painting inspired by an incident that took place in 1764, when a cheetah brought to England from India was pitched against a stag in a hunting demonstration at Windsor
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The #MythsAndFables of Sirens were half bird/half woman, however artists would usually depict them as nude women. Etty was particularly scorned for this painting because of its juxtaposition of nudity and death.
🖼 William Etty, The Sirens and Ulysses, 1837 #MAGcollections