Bestiary, Part 1

Some mythical beasts. Feel free to use them, they are, to the best of my knowledge, in the public domain. Like the maps, the illustrations are from Menschheit und Weltall, a book published in 1900. Click on the photo to get to Flickr where you can download the original files (around 2000x1500).


a sea monk


a 'pig-whale', probably a walrus

more beasts

Spritzwal - spurting/blowing whale


sea snake


sea horse


again the spurting whale, together with the pig whale


sea dragon


sea monster


sea cow, sea dog (seal) and sea horse

Many of these illustrations appeared originally in the Fisch- und Thierbuch bei Conrad Gessner