Meerwunder Und Seltsame Thier...
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A most decorative and amusing assembly of the many fantastic creatures to be encountered in the northern seas and lands. Munster's maps had little space to display the many fearsome and bizarre animals believed to inhabit the oceans and northern regions and this collection was taken from the vignettes on Olaus Magnus' great wall map of Scandinavia and the Arctic. Many creatures are recognisable, such as lobsters, whales, bears and deer, however other horrific products of a sailor's imagination bear only the faintest semblance to anything known today. Munster's monsters must have been a source of wonder to the sixteenth century armchair traveller.
region: Curiosities
mapmaker:
S.Munster
place and date of publication:
Basle 1544 -
medium and colour:
copperplate, Coloured
ref:
33709
size in cms: 34 x 28 Price: £ 1200 |
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