Featured on PDR in the collection Filippo Morghen’s Fantastical Visions of Lunar Life (1776)

“Engraver to the King of the Two Sicilies” was the stirring epithet of the eighteenth-century draughtsman, engraver, and print-seller Filippo Morghen. Much of his work concentrated on ruins, the countryside around Naples, and archaeological works such as those at Herculaneum, but his imagination ranged much further, to the extent that in 1776 he produced this fantasy Suite of the Most Notable Things...

A Savage mounted on a winged Serpent battling with a wild beast resembling a Porcupine.

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Date

1776

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Raccolta delle cose più notabili Vedute da Giovanni Wilkins erudito Vescove Inglese nel suo famoso viaggio dalla Terra alla Luna...


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Public Domain Worldwide

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1893 x 1407

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