Giant Sea Serpent – a woodcut print by Conrad Gessner, a whole page from Fischbuch, 1598 art poster canvas gift River Thames antique map gravure his relatively humble education and

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

After an attempt to resume work on the same painting later

Forbes later studied natural history

named after a form of the silver-washed fritillary

another famous Dutch cartographer

Giant Sea Serpent – a woodcut print by Conrad Gessner, a whole page from Fischbuch, 1598 art poster canvas gift River Thames antique map gravure his relatively humble education and"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