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   The Public Domain Review (publicdomainrev@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 03:59:21 JST The Public Domain Review

   155 years ago #onthisday, Top the wombat died. He was the pet of the poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti who, upon Top's passing, created this self-portrait in mourning. More on Rossetti and co’s curious but longstanding fixation with the #wombat here: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/o-uommibatto-how-the-pre-raphaelites-became-obsessed-with-the-wombat/