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Here's a fantastic example of bats in art: 🦇🦇
Death taking a break while breastfeeding a bat!
Etching from 1895 by French artist Valère Bernard.

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GOREY BATS. Edward Gorey, 1925 – 2000, U.S. writer & artist noted for his dark humour & uncanny books with characteristic pen-and-ink sketches on numerous gothtastic themes
Images: The Gilded Bat (1966); Gorey's Dracula as bat (1977); Gorey bat doodle,

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FAIRY TALE BAT. Viktor Oliva (1861 – 1928) was a Czech painter and illustrator. Image from 'National Fairy Tales and Legends' by V. B. Trebizskeho (1870). Showing ferocious bat-dragon

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BAT-RIDING FEY & WITCHES. 'Ariel on a Bat's Back' from Shakepeare's 'The Tempest', Edmund Dulac (1915); 'witche's sister on her black bat' , from Ida Rentoul Outhwaite ' (1888 – 1960)

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How about a few charming medieval bats for

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FAIRIES & BATS. Arthur 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1908) shows fairies warring with in a bid to steal their 'their leathern wings' . Elsewhere in John Ansteer Fitgzerald (1819 – 1906) bad fairies spear bats - Hey fairies leave those bats alone!!

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