creatures

An alchemical diagram from <n>Elias Ashmole</n>'s 1652 book, <n>Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum</n>.

Frontispiece of <n>Magisterium sev Aqua Sapientum</n> from the <n>Musaeum Hermeticum</n>, 1678.

An 18th-century manuscript of <n>The Salihotra</n>, a manual on horsemanship from Deccan, India.

<n>Miviv</n>, a painting by <n>Gary McMillan</n>.

An illustration by artist <n>GANJI bang</n> from 2023.

A <n>Ghost Mantis</n>, <n>Dead Leaf Mantis</n>, <n>Banded Flower Mantis</n>, <n>Stick Mantis</n>, and <n>Giant Shield Mantis</n>.

<n>Le Simorgh et l'assemblée des oiseaux</n>, a 15th-c. miniature for <n>Farid ud-Din Attar</n>'s <n>The Conference of the Birds</n>.

<n>Spotted Dog</n>, a painting by American artist <n>Bill Traylor</n>.

<n>The Duel</n>, 2015, by <n>Pierre Seinturier</n>.

A woodcut of a male mandrake from '<n>Hortus Sanitatis</n>' (1491), published by <n>Jacob Meydenbach</n>.

A dragon from <n>The Black Hours</n> (ca. 1480), held at <n>The Morgan Library and Museum</n>.

<n>Folkish</n> (2016), an ink on paper work by Australian artist <n>Minna Leunig</n>.

Old Watch Parts Get Transformed Into Fascinating Steampunk Sculptures

<n>Beneath the Dark Wing</n>, 2018, by artist <n>Suthipa Kamyam</n>.

A detail from the Hell panel of <n>The Garden of Earthly Delights</n> by <n>Hieronymus Bosch</n>.

An illustration of the mythological creature <n>Cerberus</n>.

Detail from the anonymous <n>Kota school</n> painting <n>Ladies Shooting from a Pavilion</n>, c. 1810.

A folio from <n>al-Rabghuzi</n>'s <n>Qisas al-Anbiya</n> (Stories of the Prophets), c. 1575.

"<n>I Choose You!</n>" (2012) by artist <n>Jed Henry</n> from the <n>Ukiyo-e Heroes</n> project.

<n>Dancing Worlds</n> by artist <n>Lou Benesch</n>, a commissioned piece in watercolor and colored pencil.