Chimera Collection

Centaur, chimera, Greek sphynx, Egyptian sphinx
Mythical creatures: centaur 1, chimera 2, Greek sphinx 3, Egyptian sphinx 4, gryllus 5 and siren 6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Johann Christian Wilhelm Waitz from Friedrich Johann

Ancient Etruscan wedding ceremony. The bride and groom hold each others hands in front of doors which are only opened after the ceremony has ended

Tages and Etruscan monsters
Etruscan bronze statue of Tages as a noble boy with bracelets on his arms and legs 1, and bas-relief of the monster Volta with the muzzle of a dog emerging from a tomb 2

Ancient Etruscan chimera. A winged marine demon with fish tail limbs tormenting a man and woman 1, and Scylla an infernal winged mermaid with giant hooks 2. Geni infernali

The Porta all Arco, Etruscan door in the walls of Volterra, Tuscany. Decorated with three heads of Jupiter, Castor and Pollux (or Tinia, Uni and Menrva in Etruscan mythology)

Wall paintings of monsters from the Palazzo del Te, Mantua
Wall paintings of monsters, masks, tigers, winged creatures and chimera from the Palazzo del Te, Mantua. Handcoloured lithograph by Konter after an illustration by Wilhelm Zahn from his Ornament of

Wall painting with framed panels from an ostium (narrow corridor) in the Casa dell Orso Ferito or House of the Bear, Reg. VII, Ins. II, No. 45

Decorative figures from the House of Epigrams, Regio V, Insula 1, 18. An urn and mythical beast at top, and a goat and hunting scene with dog and hare below

A Nereid (sea nymph) in mantle and bracelets riding on a sea monster or hippocampus, half horse and half fish. Museo Naz. XXII, Stabiae

Nereid sea nymph supported by a monster, half panther and half fish. Museo Naz. XXII, Stabiae. Chromolithograph by Victor Steeger after an illustration by Geremia Discanno from Emile Presuhns Les

Vase decorated with mythical figures of nereids and hippocampi from the British Museum. Copperplate engraving by Henry Moses from A Collection of Antique Vases, Altars, etc. London, 1814

BELLEROPHON & CHIMERA BELLEROPHON & CHIMERA
One of the tasks he has to perform for Iobates, king of Lycia, is to slay the CHIMERA, which he does with the aid of the winged horse PEGASUS

CLASSICAL MYTH / CHIMERA
A monster made up from parts of different creatures

Ernest Louis Aquilas Christophe - Le Baiser supreme
The final work by Ernest Louis Aquilas Christophe (1827-1892) entitled Le Baiser supreme ( The Supreme Kiss or The Sphinx ) (marble), exhibited posthumously at the Salon of 1892

Chimeras - Notre Dame, Paris, France. On the left is Black Peter the stone gargoyle - all Parisian children know he watches out for naughty children

Arctic Chimaera, or Rabbit Fish
Arctic Chimaera, also known as Rabbit Fish, Sea Ape and King of the Herrings. Date: 1862

Chimera
An illustration of a mythical creature, part mammal, part reptile, the Chimera. On display for the Myth and Monsters Exhbition which ran from April to September, 1998 at the Natural History Museum

Bellerophon & Chimera
One of the tasks he has to perform for Iobates, king of Lycia, is to slay the CHIMERA, which he does with the aid of the winged horse PEGASUS

Fantastic Adventures - Land of the Shadow Dragons
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, May 1941, featuring the story Land of the Shadow Dragons by Eando Binder. Man in overall defend a pretty woman from a huge dragon after their plane crashed. Date: 1941

Multi-Limbed Child / 1560
A freak birth with four arms and four legs. Date: 1560

Notre Dame Cathedral Gargoyle, Paris - Chimera. Date: circa 1920

Rouen Cathedral, France - Misericord in the Choir stalls. A stange female creature with the wings and tail of a Chimera and a crows feet, holding up a heart in her right hand. Date: circa 1910s

Folklore / Chimera
The chimera has - a lions head - a goats body - a dragons tail

Two-Headed Child / 1691
Two-headed child born alive at Pavia (died shortly afterwards)

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