A serpent, a winged serpent and a dragon. Woodcut after C. Gessner.

  • Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565.
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1613
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40983i
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A serpent, a winged serpent and a dragon. Woodcut after C. Gessner. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The serpent is a dipsas, a kind of serpent whose bit causes violent thirst, the coluber vipera

Publication/Creation

Heidelberg : Durch J. Lancellot in Verlegung A. Cambier, 1613.

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1 print : woodcut ; image 10.8 x 16.5 cm

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De serpentibus...de dracone...

References note

H. Fischer, G. Petit et al, Gessner - Universalgelehrter, Naturforscher, Arzt, Zürich 1967, p. 176-177
Hans H. Wellisch, Conrad Gessner, a bio-bibliography, Zug (Switzerland) 1984, p. 66

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Wellcome Collection 40983i

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