Giant Sea Serpent – a woodcut print by Conrad Gessner, a whole page from Fischbuch, 1598 art poster canvas gift River Thames antique map gravure Lower human body section showing

Lower human body section showing anatomy of male reproductive organs

another famous Dutch cartographer

Compiled from Surveys made for the French and English Governments

named after a form of the silver-washed fritillary

his relatively humble education and family connections prevented him from mixing easily in learned society

Giant Sea Serpent – a woodcut print by Conrad Gessner, a whole page from Fischbuch, 1598 art poster canvas gift River Thames antique map gravure Lower human body section showing"Giant Sea Serpent" an extraordinary woodcut hand coloured print of a giant sea monster serpent attacking a ship by Conrad Gessner, from the third German edition of his Fischbuch, published in 1598 in Zurich. Conrad Gessner (1516 1565) was a Swiss physician, bibliographer, natural historian, philologist and illustrator. He was born in Zurich, Switzerland, and studied languages, theology and medicine at university. Later as a City Physician he spend