Artist
Thomas Lord Busby
Thomas Lord Busby is a Romanticism artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Thomas Lord Busby had a habit of hiding tiny jokes in his prints, like calling a giraffe a "cameleopard" like it was an ancient Greek monster. He drew animals with the same stiff formality people used for portraits back then, which makes his prints feel both serious and secretly playful.
His CAMELEOPARD. (1810-1811) is the perfect example: a giraffe standing like a stuffy nobleman, right down to the tiny crown tucked in its neck folds.
Tap into his world with Opossum Mouse (08/1810), a mouse posed like a king holding a scepter made of a toothpick.
Works by Thomas Lord Busby
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