Skip to content

Sea-wolf on the shore

From £14.99

Colourway

Ground Cream

Ink Black

Size of the design

Choose a tile base
130mm Rustic Handmade Glazed Ceramic Tile Plain white £17.99

About this tile base

Size
130 × 130mm
Material
Glazed ceramic, handmade
Suitable for
Indoors only
Plain
The matching plain white
Order

About this design

Sea-wolf on the shore

Design no. 222816

Rhinoceros, unicorn and lynx: the beasts of Topsell’s 1658 bestiary, cut in bold, confident line.

Design no.
222816
Department
Archival & Collage
Collection
Topsell’s Beasts & Serpents
Source
Edward Topsell, after Conrad Gessner, The History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents (London, 1658), page 580
Illustrator
Anonymous woodcut engravers, after Gessner and others
Technique
Woodcut
Style
Topsell’s beast cuts: thick vigorous line, heavy hatching
Subject
Animals
Colour
Black on cream as standard
Form
Single tile
Symmetry
Asymmetric
Complexity
Complex

Recently viewed

Copperplate script capital M
Copperplate script capital M
£17.99
Dark cockroach
Dark cockroach
£17.99
Lesser locust in bold black
Lesser locust in bold black
£17.99
Combed hairy caterpillar
Combed hairy caterpillar
£17.99
Inline fat-face initial O
Inline fat-face initial O
£17.99

Sea-wolf on the shore