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Giant Sea Serpent – a woodcut print by Conrad Gessner, a whole page from Fischbuch, 1598 art poster canvas gift River Thames antique map gravure After an attempt to resume"Giant Sea Serpent" an extraordinary woodcut hand coloured print of a giant sea monster serpent attacking a ship by Conrad Gessner, from the third German edition of his Fischbuch, published in 1598 in Zurich. Conrad Gessner (1516 1565) was a Swiss physician, bibliographer, natural historian, philologist and illustrator. He was born in Zurich, Switzerland, and studied languages, theology and medicine at university. Later as a City Physician he spend