Hairy Monsters of 17th Century
They certainly don't make monsters like they used to! BibliOdyssey has a few neat scans of hairy satyrs and other monsters as drawn by 17th century French engraver François Chauveau:
It's as though he has travelled forward in time to select elements from Chewbacca / Planet of the Apes & Star Trek (Worf) to combine with the motif popularised during the Renaissance, the grotesque. So there's a certain charming naivety and abstraction to the works suggesting they may be early versions for a later, more sophisticated, suite of prints perhaps.
