Basilisk
Date
1671
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Library reference
7838
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 157mm
width (print): 175mm
width (print): 175mm
Subject
Description
Cryptozoological study of a basilisk, the fabled creature supposed to have been hatched by a snake from a cock’s egg.
Plate associated with Observation 128, ‘De Basilico’, by Georg Wolfgang Wedel, Miscellanea curiosa medico-physica…1672 (Leipzig and Frankfurt, 1681) pp.172-175.
Inscribed above: ‘AD OBSERV. CXXVII.’ Artist’s monogram lower left.
Georg Wolfgang Wedel (1645-1721) German physician and chemist, Professor at the University of Jena.
Plate associated with Observation 128, ‘De Basilico’, by Georg Wolfgang Wedel, Miscellanea curiosa medico-physica…1672 (Leipzig and Frankfurt, 1681) pp.172-175.
Inscribed above: ‘AD OBSERV. CXXVII.’ Artist’s monogram lower left.
Georg Wolfgang Wedel (1645-1721) German physician and chemist, Professor at the University of Jena.
Associated place