Into the Ether by Ralph Steadman

Delving deep into his imagination and Greys Anatomy, Steadman has pieced this creature together as if he were Dr Frankenstein building his monster, bit by bit from the cadavers of thieves and rogues. It scratches in the dirt with its eagles talons, no majestic wings to give it flight and dignity. No, this chimera, with limbs of bone and sinew could have stepped from a Hieronymus
Bosch hellscape as it chews and chomps on the unfortunate souls who fall into it hideous maw. They are lost and they know it.

Ink and collage on paper, 1997 

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