Mythical beast posters & prints

Mythical beast, detail Stuart Cox

Goddess of Chaste Love, 1468-75 Francesco di Giorgio Martini

A Mythical Beast Surmounting Stylised Characters Anonymous

The Inside of Guild Hall near Cheapside, London William Griggs

Navagunjara, a Universal Form of Krishna, ca. 1835 Unknown

The Cockatrice English School

Ben Jonson English playwright English School

Gerard the Giant, Gerard's Hall, Basing Lane, London Thomas Hosmer Shepherd

A King Pursued by a Unicorn, from the Unicorn Series, ca. 1555 Jean Duvet

Gog and Magog with a barrel Ebenezer Landells

Manticore from 'Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes' by Edward Topsell, published 1607 Edward Topsell

Menu of a banquet in honour of the delegation of the French parliament, 1910. Boris Zvorykin

Sphinx with Two Bodies, 1652 Wenceslaus Hollar

Hunter on horseback attacked by a mythical beast, mid-18th century Iranian School

Perseus and Andromeda, from 'Game of Mythology', 1644 Stefano della Bella

Plate 7: Pluto in a niche, holding a bident, with Cerberus next to him, from a series of m…, 1526 Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio

Griffin, ca. 1435-1491 Martin Schongauer

The Beast Enthroned Anonymous

Design for a Candelabra Grotesque with a Bat in the Center, 1550 Heinrich Aldegrever

Fifth scene, the Inferno, from 'The marriage of the gods', 1637 Stefano della Bella

Oedipus and the Sphinx, 1864 Gustave Moreau

Statues of Gog (Gogmagog) and Magog (Corineus) Anonymous

Garuda Nandalal Bose

Plate 6: Thetis standing in a niche with a shell and sea creature, pouring water out of a …, 1526 Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio

The Abduction on the Unicorn Albrecht Dürer

Saint George Albrecht Dürer

The Beast from the Earth and the Adoration of the Beast from the Sea Anonymous

The Hampton Hydra Joseph Swain

Persée et Méduse, 1644 Stefano della Bella

Gog and Magog, Guildhall, London George Shepherd

Neptune, from 'Game of Mythology', 1644 Stefano della Bella

Saint George on Horseback, 1505-8 Albrecht Dürer

Constellation of Perseus, 1603 Alexander Mair

Mighty was he to look upon Evelyn Paul

The Enchanted Forest Sir John Gilbert

Dragons and Landscape, 14th century; plus later addition Unknown