Fictional Creatures In Art

Cover of Other Worlds, November 1950

Cover of Other Worlds, February 1956

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, December 1941

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, February 1942 Public domain scan of a magazine cover, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cover of Other Worlds, March 1953

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, July 1941 Public domain scan of a magazine cover, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cover of Imagination, December 1954 Public domain scan of a magazine cover, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cover of Imagination, April 1955

Source: Clark Publishing Web source: http://www.fp.ucalgary.ca/unicomm/news/gibson/photos.html Magazine cover of Other Worlds November 1949 issue. Web source: http://www.noosfere.com/showcase/pulps__magazines_a More

Cover of Other Worlds, May 1950

Cover of Other Worlds, June-July 1951

Cover of Other Worlds, September 1956 Public domain scan of a magazine cover, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, June 1941 Public domain scan of a magazine cover, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, September 1942 Public domain scan of a magazine cover, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Examples of artwork on a variety of subjects and in a variety of styles by Francis Elizabeth Wynne from a sketchbook (ca. 420 drawings): mixed media, including watercolour, wash and, pen and ink.

Examples of artwork on a variety of subjects and in a variety of styles by Francis Elizabeth Wynne from a sketchbook (ca. 420 drawings): mixed media, including watercolour, wash and, pen and ink.

Original image description from the Deutsche FotothekAstrologie & Sternzeichen & Kalender Public domain photograph of 15th-century, early renaissance art, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl More

Original image description from the Deutsche FotothekTheosophie & Alchemie & Judentum & Kabbala

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Immagine del manoscritto Zoroaster Clavis Artis, MS. Verginelli-Rota, Biblioteca dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma, vol. 3, p. 158

Immagine del manoscritto Zoroaster Clavis Artis, MS. Verginelli-Rota, Biblioteca dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma, vol. 3, p. 184

Immagine del manoscritto Zoroaster Clavis Artis, Ms-2-27, Biblioteca Civica Hortis, Trieste, vol. 3, pag. 116

Grafik aus dem Klebeband Nr. 9 der Fürstlich Waldeckschen Hofbibliothek Arolsen Jean Le Pautre: Dekorationsentwurf

Grafik aus dem Klebeband Nr. 9 der Fürstlich Waldeckschen Hofbibliothek Arolsen Jean Le Pautre: Dekorationsentwurf

Cover of the April 1941 issue of Uncanny Stories

Nederlands: Etiket / lucifersdoosje (onderdeel) / reclame'Etiketten van luciferdoosjes'De verzameling etiketten van luciferdoosjes, waar deze pagina deel van uit maakt, geeft als geheel een beeld van de geschi More

(Top) unlabeled, assumed to be a manticore. (Bottom) "leucrocotta" (or "leucrocuta", "leucurcuta",[1] etc.). Note also that these two beasts appear on the same page in Johannes Johnston's Historiae Naturalis[1 More

Deutsch: Allegorie auf Kaiser Rudolf II. Deutsch, um 1600. Aquarell und Deckfarben auf festem Bütten.

Public domain photo of German art painting, 16th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Norsk bokmål: Bildet er hentet fra Riksantikvaren. blad nr. 82-90 i Henrik Bulls fortegnelse. Eier : Fortidsminneforeningen Sted : Norway, Sogn og Fjordane, Luster Emneord: STAVKIRKER Medium : Blyant Thi More

1985.191.a Public domain photograph of 15th-century art, medieval or early renaissance, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

1917.889

Secuda etas mundi. Folio 12v/13r. Hand Colored. Published in Nuremberg, 12 July 1493. Blatt XII v/XIII r

Deutsch: Holzschnitt aus der Schedel'schen Weltchronik, Blatt 12v/13r English: Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle

Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch — Folio 12? „Vision Daniels“

Front of a two-sided drawings. For the reverse see File:Anonymous (1390-1410) Sheet with Various Monsters, a Dwarf, a Snail and a Toad RP-T-1955-51(V).jpg.

Reverse of a two-sided drawings. For the front see File:Anonymous (1390-1410) Sheet with Various Monsters RP-T-1955-51(R).jpg.

Basel — Pharmazie-Historisches Museum der Universität Deutsch: Salam...., 16. Jahrhundert? (Abb. in Cosmographia (Münster)?)

Kermira, Cappadocia St Christopher depicted with the head of a dog. From the 5th century on, it was widely believed in Byzantium that the saint was one of the mythic dog-heads, a barbarian race without the gift More

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Deutsch: Mandragora Mann und Frau Public domain photograph of 15th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Harrowing of Hell  Public domain photograph of 16th-century painting, renaissance or mannerist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Die durch eine wunderliche Kalbs- oder Miß-Geburt von Gott bestraffte Frauenzimmer Hauben-Mode

Hoof Man

Public domain image of Renaissance art, painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Public domain image of Renaissance art, painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Basel — Pharmazie-Historisches Museum der Universität Deutsch: Phantasiewesen, 17. Jahrhundert? (Abb. in De animalibus terrestribus?)

Southern hemisphere constellations scenographically over the terrestrial globe. Plate from Andreas Cellarius Harmonia Macrocosmica of 1661. Since the celestial sphere is seen from "outside", the sides are rever More

Southern hemisphere constellations scenographically over the terrestrial globe. Plate from Andreas Cellarius Harmonia Macrocosmica of 1661. Since the celestial sphere is seen from "outside", the sides are rever More

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, 15th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Ten Kings of Hell by Riku Chuen, Nara National Museum, Japan 日本語: 絹本著色十王像 陸忠淵筆 閻羅王

Русский: Солнце, Луна, времена года и двенадцать месяцев в виде знаков Зодиака. Лубок. Конец XVII -начало XVIII в.

Ten Kings of Hell by Riku Chuen, Nara National Museum, Japan 日本語: 絹本著色十王像 陸忠淵筆 閻羅王

Allegory of Christ as the savior of humanity Public domain photograph of stained glass window, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Українська: Зображення мандрагори

f°90: "In A.D. 1496, in the month of January, at the time The Tiber burst its banks high and wide near Rome: what wondrous creature appeared, found dead where the raging and the might of the Tiber's waters had More

Basel — Pharmazie-Historisches Museum der Universität Deutsch: Schlangenwesen [wie sie Asienreisende berichtet haben] (die obere 2-köpfig, die untere 3-köpfig), 16. Jahrhundert? (Abb. in Cosmographia (Münster)?)

Circe and Odysseus (Ulixes) in a book illustration in Giovanni Boccaccio's book De claris mulieribus , caption of the German translation reads Hie nach volget der kurcz sin von etlichen frowen / von denen joh More

"Meduza". An 18th-century Russian lubok print. It features a Slavic mythical creature, Meduza. The lubok says: "A fish, named Meduza lives in the ocean-sea near the Ethiopian abyss". Русский: "Медуза" (либо М More

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Illuminated Manuscript in a Spanish Bible (Tours / ms. 0008 f. 533)

Français : à L. Cranach Public domain photograph of erotic art, sexuality, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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Illustration for Giambattista Basile's "Pentamerone".

Illustration for Giambattista Basile's "Pentamerone".

Hochzeit von Johann Lipsteinsky von Kolowrat, Kämmerer Erzherzog Ferdinands II. und Neffe der Philippine Welser, mit Katharina von Payrsberg 1580

A bizzare fantasy creature

Central Tibet, 19th century Furnishings; Furniture Wood with mineral pigments Gift of Ruth Sutherlin Hayward and Robert W. Hayward in honor of the 18th birthday of the 11th Panchen Lama, Gendun Choekyi Nyima, More

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Stamp description / Briefmarkenbeschreibung Deutsch: 300. Todestag von Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1622–1676) English: 300th day of death of Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1622–167 More

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Monachium utriusque Bavariae Civitas primar". Gesamtansicht München von Südosten über die Isar, kol. Kupferstich aus Braun-Hogenberg, 1586, 29 × 49 cm. Mit gestochenen Erklärungen, zwei Tafeln links und rechts More

An illustration from Jules Verne's short story "Aventures de la famille Raton" (1866-69)label QS:Len,"An illustration from Jules Verne's short story "Aventures de la famille Raton" (1866-69)" label QS:Lpl,"Il More

Armenian stamp from 1921-922 Source:postage.20m.com Public domain photograph of postal stamp, Armenia, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Português: Peça de bronze montada. Kriegsbuch (Livro de Guerra), de Ludwig von Eyb zum Hartenstein (Ludwig Ⅵ von Eyb “o Novo”, 1450-1521), 1500 (c.) Manuscrito da biblioteca da Universidade de Erlander em Nure More

Nederlands: Tekening in de in 1646 gepubliceerde atlas van Andreas Cellarius (Neuhausen, circa 1595 – Hoorn, 1665) De tekenaar is hoogstwaarschijnlijk al meer dan 70 jaar dood.

Alraune (in: Herbar), c. 1520 Germanisches Nationalmuseum    Native name Germanisches Nationalmuseum Location Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany Coordinates 49° 26′ 54″ N, 11° 04′ 32″ E   Established 1852 More

Tiber-Monster mit Eselskopf, Huf, Hüherfuß, Fischschuppen, Gesicht an der Hüfte, Schwanz mit Drachenkopf und Rüssel als rechter Arm. Das Bild zeigt zudem den Tiber vor den Stadtmauern Roms (Augsburger Wunderzei More

Polski: Koziołek Matołek w Pacanowie