Basilisk Gallery

Lacertilia lizards and chameleons

Lacertilia lizards and chameleons: Cameroon sailfin chameleon, Trioceros montium, chameleon forest dragon, Gonocephalus chamaeleontinus, flying dragon, Draco volans, Texas horned lizard, Phrynosoma cornutum, Kuhl's flying gecko, Ptychozoon kuhli, basilisk, Basiliscus basiliscus, frill-necked lizard, Chlamydosaurus kingii, and thorny devil, Moloch horridus. Chromolithograph by Adolf Glitsch from an illustration by Ernst Haeckel from Art Forms in Nature, Kunstformen der Natur, Liepzig, Germany, 1904. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans

Lacertilia, 1899-1904 (colour litho)

999844 Lacertilia, 1899-1904 (colour litho) by German School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: A'Kunstformen der NaturA (Art Forms in NatureA, 1899-1904, published by Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919)
Eidechsen, Berg-ChamA¤leon, Agamen, Flugdrache, Texas-KrA¶tenechse, Fliegender Gecko, Basilisk, Kragenechse, Dornteufel, Illustration, Tiere, Reptilien
Chamaeleon montium, Lophyrus tigrinus, Draconellus volans, Phrynosoma cornutum, Ptychozoon homalocephalum, Basiliscus americanus, Chlamydosaurus Kingii, Moloch horridus); A© Purix Verlag Volker Christen; German, out of copyright

© © Purix Verlag Volker Christen / Bridgeman Images

Basilisk Basiliscus Representation lizard front legs

Basilisk, Basilisk (Basiliscus), Basilisk. Representation of a lizard without front legs. Top left the name in Latin. Part of the seventh album with drawings of reptiles, amphibians and natural history ensembles. The seventh of twelve albums with watercolors of animals, birds and plants, known around 1600, commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II. With explanations in Dutch, Latin and French, lizards: lizard, Anselmus Boetius de Boodt, Praag, 1596 - 1610, paper, pencil, chalk, watercolor (paint), ink, brush, h 133 mm × w 245 mm

© Artokoloro