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Even during Dürer's first Italian journey, a variety of animal studies documented his interest in all the unusual and exceptional features of nature. One example of this is the displayed pen drawing. The lobster is positioned to fill the entire page. It is entering the picture from the left. Its fixed gaze and large claws identify it as a predator of the Adriatic Sea, its main native territory. This sheet is one of the studies which Dürer used as independent rather than concrete study material.
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