It's a bird!
It's a plane!
It's a lemon? 🍋
Gigantic fruits float, balloon-like, over Nuremberg in these surreal illustrations from Johann Christoph Volkamer’s 18th-century book on German citrus gardens.
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See more from Volkamer's book at the link in our bio.
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