De regni Settentrionali / Mostri marini & terrestri, che si trouano in ogni luogo nelle parti d'aquilone

Object summary

Title: De regni Settentrionali / Mostri marini & terrestri, che si trouano in ogni luogo nelle parti d'aquilone
Object ID: AF-DI-0677
Date made: 1575
Place made: Switzerland, Basel-Stadt, Basel
Maker: Münster, Sebastian
Object type: Woodcut
Major collection: Nautical
Named collection: Allan Forbes Collection
On view: Yes
Exhibitions: Liquid Archive; Monsters of the Deep: Between Imagination and Science

Description

Uncolored woodcut depicting a sea full of various chimeric monsters, and in the background, in the upper fifth of the image, a shore with various land monsters upon it. Each monster is labeled with a letter. Italian text on verso provides a key to the letters, and description.

Published as part of Sebastian Münster's 1575 "Cosmographia Universalis"

From Sebastian Münster Cosmographia Universalis (Basel, 1575)