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Stryge (1853) is a print by French etcher Charles Méryon depicting a vampire-like legendary creature called strixes.
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Stryge (1853) is a print by French etcher Charles Méryon depicting a vampire-like legendary creature called strixes.

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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
Charles Méryon, Strix (mythology)

The Stryge is the name of a statue from the Galerie des chimères on the Notre Dame de Paris cathedral and the title of famous print by Charles Meryon first published in 1853.

The first state of the "Stryge" - that "with the verses" - selling under the hammer in 1873 for £5, sold again under the hammer in 1905 for £100.


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