Serpents Collection

LAMBTON WORM
The Lambton heir kills the loathsome worm, but is cursed because he fails to kill the first living thing he then meets - his own father!

The Head of Medusa, ca. 1618. Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640). Oil on canvas, 68.5 x 118 cm

Mariner, Watersnakes
The Mariner, the dead albatross slung round his neck, watches the sea snakes and blesses them as living things in his desolate world

Art Greek. Hellenistic. The Statue of Lacoon (Laacoonte). 2
Art Greek. Hellenistic. Statue of Lacoon and his sons (Antiphates and Thymbraeus). The sculpture is attributed by three sculptors from the island of Rhodes. Agesander, Athenedores and Polydorus

Snake Tattoo
The latest craze for feminine beauty is the tattooing of the back with serpents, butterflies, etc. This picture was taken in a London salon. Date: 1929

Circe does Magic
doing magic with spirits and serpents

Sea Serpents Exist
SEA SERPENTS DO EXIST !

Electric Permanent Waving Machine 1928
A permanent electric waving machine, medusa, Serpents, exhibited at the Hairdressers Annual Exhibition. Date: 1928

Dragons - Tournai font at All Saints Church, East Meon
A close-up detailed view of the dark limestone Tournai font at All Saints Church, East Meon, Hampshire. Likely a gift from Bishop Henry de Blois

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Campesino, defiende con las armas al gobierno que te dio la tierra (Farmer, defend with arms the government that gave the land to you). Poster. SPAIN. Barcelona

Mythical Sea Serpent
A huge sea serpent attacking a ship

Marble statue of an Etruscan priest in ceremonial robes. He holds a patera or libation bowl in his right hand. Two Etruscan leaping priests or Salii carrying bronze shields or ancilia in a religious

Labantsiksa, shaman of the Khorintzi Buryats people of Siberia. She wears a helmet with antlers, leather dress decorated with bells, a cape with three entwined serpents

John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor
John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon (1751-1838), British barrister and politician, serving as Lord Chancellor for a number of years during the early 19th century. circa 1810s

The church of St. Mary and St. David, Kilpeck, Herefordshire, England, is a small gem of romanesque architecture and carving, circa 1140, with scrolled serpents on the jambs Date: 12th century

Naples, Italy - Old Naples with the Serpents Fountain Date: circa 1910

CIRCE DOES MAGIC
Circe, the Mediterranean witch who features in Homers Odyssey, does magic with spirits and serpents

LAOCOON AND HIS SONS
Laocoon, a priest of Apollo at Troy, is strangled, together with his sons, by serpents : this famous sculpture, probably 2nd century BC, was discovered at Rome in 1506

LENFER A condemned soul writhes in agony as a demon carries him to eternal torment and serpents give him a foretaste of the horrors to come

DORE SEA CREATURE
Monsters of the sea

SEA HORSE BELON
Marine creature with a horse- like head, front paws and a serpents tail Date: 1553

Ancient Egyptian jewellery from Tutankhamuns tomb
Ear-ornaments from the tomb of Tutankhamun (reigned 13321323 BC), as discovered by Howard Carter among others in 1922 in the Valley of Kings

Roman mosaic. Child Heracles with snakes. Antioquia. Turkey
Heracles. Divine hero in Greek mythology. Roman mosaic. Child Heracles with snakes. Antakya. Turkey

Trocortesian or Madrid Codex. s. XIV. Detail. Maya
Trocortesian or Madrid Codex. s.XIV. Detail. Maya art. Miniature Painting. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Americas Museum

Brazil - Sao Paulo - Serpentarium of the Instituto Butantan, a Brazilian biomedical research centre affiliated to the Sao Paulo State Secretary of Health

Sea Serpents
Two explanations for the sighting of sea serpents: the first, a school of porpoises; the second, the tentacles of a giant squid

Caricature of Sir William Harcourt, Liberal politician
Caricature of Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt (1827-1904), Liberal politician, at this time Home Secretary in Gladstones government

Serpents / Apollos Oracle
The tripod and serpents of Apollos Oracle. Date: 1886

A sea-monster photographed by a man of science, Dr. Bowlder Sharpe. Sighted by the steam yacht, Emerald between Madeira and St

Snake, c. 1800 Date: C.1800

Naga statue at Wat Chiang Man Temple in Chiang Mai, Thailand Date: 2014

Illustration, A Song of the English, Deep Sea Cables
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine)

Boerhaave, Hermann. Dutch botanist, humanist and physician of European fame. Ilustration of his book Methodus Studii Medici. Engraving. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona. Barcelona University Library

Rhino from Topsells The history of four-footed beasts and serpents Date: 1658

Cawthorne Fountain
The village water fountain at Cawthorne, near Barnsley, Yorkshire, England, made to represent a village cross, with serpents round the base. Date: 1960s

The infant Hercules and the Standard Oil serpents. Illustration shows Theodore Roosevelt as the infant Hercules fighting large snakes with the heads of Nelson W. Aldrich and John D. Rockefeller

Aleppo - Syria - Carving above the entrance
Aleppo - Syria - Beautiful carving of serpents and arabic script above the second gate of the Citadel. Date: circa 1908

Serpentine Column and Theodosius Obelisk
The three intertwined bronze serpents were the base of a trophy which once stood in the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. Dedicated to the God Apollo by the 31 Greek cities who defeated the Persians at

Mexico / Quintanaroo / Tulum
Quintana Roo, Tulum. View of the Mayan temple called El Castillo on the Caribbean coastline. This large pyramid has two columns depicting serpents

1555 / Fighting Snakes
Swedish countryfolk fighting serpents

Giant Serpent Slain
Fridleus slays a giant serpent

Snake-Temple, Ouidah
A species of large non- poisonous serpents are venerated as protectors by the people of Ouidah, Benin : they have their own temple-hut

Cadmus and Hermione
Cadmus, king of Thebes, and his wife Hermione are changed into serpents

MEDUSA
Medusa has serpents the way you and I have hair - simply to see her will petrify you - literally !

Ebony Casket
An ebony casket in richly chased ormolu with serpents upholding antique coral cameos

Folklore / Basilisk
La figure du Basilic est telle - " among all the serpents, the Basilisk is the most poisonous"

American sea serpent, satirical depiction
The American sea serpent, with the stars and stripes on its body -- a satirical depiction

Sinbad and Serpents(Dore
Sinbad in the Valley of the Serpents

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