Monster Collection (page 2)

Mayan Monolith - Quirigua - Sky Xul in Jaws of a Monster
Guatemala - Mayan Monolith - Quirigua - 8th century AD. Quirigua is an ancient Maya archaeological site in the department of Izabal in south-eastern Guatemala

Queensland, Australia - Surfers Paradise Hotel (Tropical Gradens & Zoo) - Proprietor Jim Cavill. Buit in 1925 - name changed in 1933 to Surfers Paradise - destroyed by fire on Monday 6th July, 1936

Humorous endpapers by Charles Crombie
Humorous endpapers (back) by Charles Crombie in The Wonder Book of Daring Deeds Date: circa 1940

Music cover, The Sea Serpent Polka, by Carlo Minasi Date: circa 1850

Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Caliban, The Tempest, Shakespeare
Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Caliban in The Tempest by William Shakespeare Date: 1904

Caricature illustration, A Mystical Illusion by Nibs. Showing two men in fog, one carrying a double bass, mistaken by the other man for a monster

Grotesque caricature, The Lock-Out's a monster. Captioned, The Evil Genius Of Industrial Strife, with description, The "lock-out" is presented to us incarnate, as a monster

Poster, The Spy, Spanish Civil War, design by Ramon Puyol Roman. 1936

The War of the Worlds - Despair - Surrounded by martians
"My imagination was haunted by these fast metal monsters and the memory of the dead body smashed against the fence." Date: First published: 1898

Startling Stories - The Gods Hate Kansas by Joseph J. Millard. A tentacled alien grips a man and woman in its clutches. The man tries to defeat the monster by attacking it with a taser

Soviet propaganda poster. Death to World Imperialism
Russia. Communism. Soviet propaganda poster. Death to World Imperialism. Date:

Fantastic Adventures - The Lavender vine of death
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, September 1948, featuring the story The Lavender vine of death by Don Wilcox. A huge purple monster devours a modern building

Sarcophagus tub. 2nd century AD. Medusa. From Sidon (Lebanon)
Roman sarcophagus tub. 2nd century AD. Marble. Medusa. From Sidon (Lebanon). Archaeological Museum. Istanbul. Turkey

Sarcophagus tub. 2nd century AD. From Sidon (Lebanon)
Roman sarcophagus tub. 2nd century AD. Marble. From Sidon (Lebanon). Archaeological Museum. Istanbul. Turkey

Meleager and Atalanta by Jacob Jordaens
Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678). Flemish baroque painter. Meleager and Atalanta. 1620-1650. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain

Flights into the Future - creatures of the air jungle
An unfortunate pilot is thrown out of his plane by creatures fllying around the air jungle, the product of the imagination of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who wrote of strange monsters

Peter Tatchell and others, Bermondsey by-election
Peter Gary Tatchell (b 1952), Australian-born British political activist. Seen here (second from left) as the Labour Party candidate at the declaration of votes for a by-election in Bermondsey

According to legend, it was taken to the King of Poland, who wished to keep it. It was also shown to a group of Catholic bishops, Date: 16th century

Mythical Sea Serpent
A huge sea serpent attacking a ship

Folklore - Sea Serpent
The Sea-monk a marine monster which looks vaguely human. Date: 1558

Caricature of Victoriano Huerta, military officer, Mexico
Caricature of Victoriano Huerta (1850-1916), a military officer who became the 35th President of Mexico in 1913, but was overthrown in 1914. Date: 1913-1914

Monster Tea Garden
A popular venue in the 18th century, situated at the corner of St Georges Row and Buckingham Palace Road, London. The name is probably a corruption of Monastery as it once was the site of the Convent

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

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)

John o Arnha choking a monster, beating him with a cudgel while other demons fly above and three witches stir a cauldron. The Kelpy tried we John to grapple, But Arn caught him by the thrapple

Scottish traveller dancing a jig with a violinist. I ve been throw Hollan, Spain and France, An at Vienna learn d to dance

Scottish traveller John o Arnha fighting a Kelpy or monster with a cudgel. Three witches flying on broomsticks. A stalwart monster, huge in size, Did streight frae out the river rise

Scottish traveller John o Arnha encounters a witch
Scottish traveller John o Arnha with cudgel encounters a witch flying on a broomstick. Sae fently did she wing her flight, In a twinklin she was out o sight

Street brawl between two men in a 19th century town
Street brawl between two men boxing, knocking over a woman with wheelbarrow, 19th century. Spar d neither man nor mothers Son - Yea clawed the back o Horner John

Woman in a garden scared by a bee, 1913
Woman in a garden scared by a bee. She wears a dress by Paul Poiret in blue wool crepe, with white fichu and cuffs. Petite robe de jardin par Poiret en crepe de laine bleu

Cartoon, The Protection Giant -- Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum! I smell the Blood of an Englishman; Be he Alive, or be he Dead, I ll grind his Bones to make my Bread

Mechanical monster head at the London Hippodrome
The wonderful head worked at the Hippodrome by the Kluks. In the first icture it roars for more food, then its eyes rolls with delight over the repast after which it falls into a slumber

Shaun from Shaun. 1928

Railway construction, delivery of monster bar, Port Talbot
Railway construction, delivery of a monster bar, 62 feet 5 inches long, at Port Talbot, Glamorganshire, with a large crowd of celebrating spectators. Date: 1851

Cartoon, The Kaisers Monster, WW1 cartoon by Harry Furniss. 1915

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

Roman trireme and boat
Trireme warship with three decks of oars, battering ram with swords, from the Trajan Column 2, and boat with battering ram from an ancient basrelief 1. Both with eyes on the stern

John Flaxmans water vase decorated with a Triton grasping a sea monsters head. Chromolithograph by W. Griggs from Frederick Rathbones Old Wedgwood

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

Plates decorated with cupids on a sea monster and foliage from Rouen, France. Hand-finished chromolithograph by Ris Paquot from his General History of Ancient French and Foreign Glazed Pottery

Pitcher or ewer from Venice, Italy, with sea nymph riding a chimaera with a horses body and serpent tail. Hand-finished chromolithograph from Ris Paquots General History of Ancient French

Great sea serpent shot at by the crew of Lawrence de Ferry in 1746. Described in Bishop Erik Pontoppidans Natural History of Norway, 1752. Steel engraving by W.H

German cup made out of a nautilus shell decorated with gilded silver nautical ornaments, mid 16th century. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Altenecks Costumes

Rabbitfish or sea monster, Chimaera monstrosa. Near threatened. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his Natural History of British Fishes, Donovan and F.C. and J

A daughter of Nereus mounted on a sea monster
One of the 50 daughters of Nereus mounted on a sea monster with the head of a panther. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1789

One of the 50 daughters of Nereus mounted on a sea monster with the head of a horse. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1789

Perseus rescuing Andromeda from the sea monster Cetus. On his shoulders is the helmet that made him invisible, his sword Harpe and under his cloak is the severed head of Gorgon Medusa

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