Land and Sea Monsters - woodblock engraved chart of mythical creatures, beasts & serpents from Sebastian Munster's "Cosmographia", 1544 art print poster canvas map gift Surface:Art paper 140gsm completed in 1816

completed in 1816

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Land and Sea Monsters - woodblock engraved chart of mythical creatures, beasts & serpents from Sebastian Munster's "Cosmographia", 1544 art print poster canvas map gift Surface:Art paper 140gsm completed in 1816An iconic chart of Land and Sea monsters and beasts, both mythical creatures and real, published by Sebastian Munster in his "Cosmographia" in 1544. One of famous Elizabethan era 16th century hand coloured woodblock prints. Munster's plate of mythical creatures is taken from Olaus Magnus' Carta Marina of 1539 and includes abundant tusks, horns and twin spouts. One vignette shows a galleon trying to outrun one monster by throwing their cargo overboard,