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Friday Dragonslayer: Jason

The Fall of Princes - caption: 'Jason wins the Golden Fleece'

 

ID: 026473
Title: The Fall of Princes
Provenance: England (Suffolk); circa 1460
Caption: Jason wins the Golden Fleece
Notes: (Detail) Book I, line 2199. Jason beheads the dragon which guarded the Golden Fleece; a bull tamed for ploughing lies nearby.
Image taken from The Fall of Princes.
Originally published/produced in England (Suffolk); circa 1460.
Language: English
Source identifier: Harley 1766, f.31
British Library Shelfmark: Harley 1766

From the British Library collection in Flickr Commons.

Friday Illustration: Polar bears

Image taken from page 200 of 'Our North Land: being a full account of the Canadian North-West and Hudson's Bay Route, together with a narrative of the experiences of the Hudson's Bay Expedition of 1884 ... Illustrated, etc'

Image from the British Library collection in Flickr Commons.

Title: “Our North Land: being a full account of the Canadian North-West and Hudson’s Bay Route, together with a narrative of the experiences of the Hudson’s Bay Expedition of 1884 … Illustrated, etc”
Author: TUTTLE, Charles Richmond.
Shelfmark: “British Library HMNTS 010470.h.4.”
Page: 200
Place of Publishing: Toronto
Date of Publishing: 1885
Publisher: C. Blackett Robinson
Issuance: monographic
Identifier: 003695988

Scan of book here.