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Katsushika Hokusai, Two Bats Flying, ca 1840

Vincent van Gogh, Flying Fox, 1884-86

Yashô (1782-1825) - “Bat in Flight”, Ink on paper

Ohara Koson, Flying Bat, c.1910

Jean Mansel, Crowned Bat, La Fleur des histoires ou les hystores rommaines abregies…, France 1454.

Albrecht Dürer, Bat, 1522

Yamada Hogyoku, Bat and Moon, Japan c.1830

Kiki Smith, Crashed Bat, 1998.

Hiroshige (1797 – 1858)- Bats, nd

Biho Takashi, Bat Before the Moon, Japan, 1910

Kalisz General Joachim Jauch (1684-1754) - Bat, detail from albumpage, 1749

Francisco Toledo - Bat - 1991

Mochizuki Gyokkei
Bat and Moon, 1900
ink on scroll

Lucian Freud, Bat, ca 1961, watercolor

Bats, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd Ṭūsī, ʿAjāyib al-makhlūqāt va-gharāyib al-mawjūdāt, Baghdad, 1388 CE

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Bats and Umbrellas , 1882

Heinz Hajek-Halke, Bat and Lamp, Negative Montage, c.1936

Hasegawa Tōhaku (1539 – 1610), A Bat Flying near a Pine Tree

Biju Boro. A bat flies between trees in Guwahati, India. May 23, 2018

Stafan Zsaitsits

Hans Wigert

Painting attributed to Bhawani Das. Great Indian Fruit Bat, ca. 1777–82. Kolkata / Calcutta, pen and ink, watercolor with gum arabic, with bodycolor, on watermarked paper

Horaku, Owl and Bat netsuke, early to mid 19th century Japan

Japanese Menuki /目貫 (sword mountings) in the shape of bats

Bat, Aberdeen Bestiary, England, ca. 1200

Keith Carter, Bat, 2002

Bat from Frederick II, De arte venandi cum avibus (French translation), France ca. 1310

Bat from the medieval bestiary, Liber de natura bestiarum, England after 1236.

Bats rule!

Batty kitty