File:Lee Henry1884-Unmasked-p058-Olaus-lobster.png

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English: A giant lobster has caught a man aboard ship in its claw, and pulling him towards; facsimile of the woodcut in Olaus Magnus's book, in Henry Lee's book. Lee comments "From the crude image of a lobster having eight minor claws.. the transition is not great; and I believe that this also is a pictorial misrepresentation of a casualty by the attack of a calamary above described, .."
Date (facsimile after 1555 woodcut)
Source Lee, Henry (1884), “The Great Sea Serpent”, in Sea Monsters Unmasked (The Fisheries Exhibition Literature 3)[1], Chapman and Hall, page 58
Author Henry Lee (reproduced facsimile); Olaus Magnus (original woodcut)

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"A gigantic lobster dragging a man from a ship", after Olaus Magnus

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