Bestiary posters & prints

A Siren and a Centaur from a bestiary Ms Ludwig XV 4, fol. 81v, c.1280-1300 Franco-Flemish School

Northumberland Bestiary, c.1250-60 English School

A Hedgehog from a bestiary Ms Ludwig XV 4, fol. 82, c.1280-1300 Franco-Flemish School

Procession French School

Ms 24 f.5 Adam naming the animals, of North Midlands origin English School

The Properties of Animals French School

Tantric Manuscript 'Sangrahani Sutra', late 16th century Indian School

A Griffin, 1625-77 Wenceslaus Hollar

Animalium, Ferarum et Bestiarum Wenceslaus Hollar

Ms 399 fol.149 The Properties of the Tortoise, the Hoopoe and the Bat French School

Demon Japanese School

The Temptation of Saint Anthony Hieronymus Bosch

The Beast with Two Horns Like a Lamb, c. 1497 Albrecht Dürer

Bed hanging depicting fantastical creatures Anonymous

How King Arthur saw the Questing Beast Aubrey Vincent Beardsley

Behemoth and Leviathan, from Illustrations of the Book of Job, 1825-26 William Blake

Constellations of Monoceros the Unicorn, Canis Major and Minor from A Celestial Atlas Alexander Jamieson

Bessie Christian of Lezayre George Bellett Cowen

The Dragon with two Horns and the Beast with Seven, from the Apocalypse Jean Duvet

Anostirus purpureus (click beetle) Anonymous

Now King Arthur saw the Questing Beast , 1893-94 Aubrey Beardsley

A Cassowary Holding a Snake in Its Beak Giandomenico (1727-1804) Tiepolo

Crepis Foetida Stinking Hawk's-Beard Anonymous

Bearded centaur, detail from Hylonome Restrained by Lapiths Stuart Cox

Initial T: The Healing of the Blind after Touching the Body of Saint Anthony Master of the Brussels Romuléon

Bennett's Cassowary, c.1851-76 Joseph Wolf

Galium Sylvestre Slender Bedstraw Anonymous

Weasel (Putorius nivalis/Mustela vulgaris), the smallest European carnivore, 1828 Unknown

One of a pair of Devants de Cheminée: Naturalist Manual and Objects Resting on a Table, 1775 Nicolas Henri Jeaurat de Bertry

Polygonum Amphibium, Terrestre; Amphibious Bistort, Terrestial Form Anonymous

Extatosoma tiaratum (giant prickly stick insect) - larva Anonymous

Anthaxia salicis (pasture splendour beetle) Anonymous

Polygonum Amphibium Terrestre Amphibious Bistort Terrestial Form Anonymous

Destruction of the Beast and the False Prophet, 1804 Benjamin West

Fantastic invertebrates, including a seahorse Nicolaes de Bruyn

Decapitation of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Besozzi Chapel Bernardino Luini