Illustration from The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents by Edward Topsell, printed in 1658, just 12 years after Browne’s Pseudodoxia Epidemica first was published.
Featured on PDR in the essay A Bestiary of Sir Thomas Browne
Hugh Aldersey-Williams takes a tour through Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica, a work which sees one of the 17th-century's greatest writers stylishly debunk all manner of myths, in particular those relating to the world of animals.
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Of the Unicorn
Artist
Date
1658
From
The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents
Image Size
645 x 500
