The legend to the series of illustrations posted above by Ian McCormick is posted below. Alternatively, you can consult these images at my Flickr account here. The enigmatic Ian McCormick posted the images to his easynet page in the late nineties when I found them. I’ve tried joining McCormick’s Yahoo group, but there doesn’t seem to be anyone there. Does anyone know of the current whereabouts of Ian?

Scythian Lamb

Mandrake from Herbarius (1485).

One-eyed monster from Hartman Schedel’s Liber Chronicarum (1493).

Blemmyae, or headless monster from Hartman Schedel’s Liber Chronicarum (1493).

Long-eared Phanesians from Hartman Schedel’s Liber Chronicarum (1493).

Big-lipped monster from Hartman Schedel’s Liber Chronicarum (1493).

Sciapodes from Hartman Schedel’s Liber Chronicarum (1493).

Goat-people (satyrs) from Hartman Schedel’s Liber Chronicarum (1493).

Monstrous pig of Landseer by Albrecht Durer (1496).

Human Monsters from Gregor Reisch’s Margarita Philosophia (1517).

Cooking from Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s The Genius of Cooking (1569).

Triton and Siren from the Latin edition of Ambroise Pare’s Des Monstres et Prodiges (1582).

Lamia See Topsell’s The History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents (1607, 1608, 1658).

Biddenden Maids “Pygopagous twins”.

Parastic ectopy; Siamese twins from Johann Schenk’s Monstrorum historia memorabilis (1609).

Cynocephali from Ulisse Aldrovandi’s Monstrorum Historia (1642).

Goose-headed Man from Ulisse Aldrovandi’s Monstrorum Historia (1642).

Hairy Man from John Bulwer’s Anthropometamorphosis: Man Transformed: or the Artificial Changling (1653).

More monsters (Fortunius Licetus, De Monstris, 1665).

Medusa Head Found in an Egg (Fortunius Licetus, De Monstris, 1665).

Elephant-headed man from Fortunio Liceti’s De Monstris (1665).

Amorphous Monster (Fortunius Licetus, De Monstris, 1665).

Bear-headed Roman Senator (Anne-Claude-Philippe, Conte de Caylus, Recueil d’antiquites, 1665)

Pope-ass and other monsters from Fortunio Liceti’s De Monstrorum causis natura (1665).

Sneering Woman (James Parsons, Crounian Lectures on Muscular Motion, 1745).

Black Albino Child (Georges Buffon, L’histoire de l’homme, 1749)

Chimera (Laurent Natter, Traite de la Methode Antique, 1754).

Miniature Count Josef Boruwlaski with his wife Islina and their baby.(18th century).

Large Man Daniel Lambert. (18th century).

The Cutter Cut Up (William Dent, 1790).

Calculating Facial Disproportion (J.C. Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy, 1792).

Birthmarks (J.C. Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy, 1792).

Rage (J.C. Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy, 1792).

The Siamese Brothers (T. M. Baynes, 19th century).

Double Child (Nicolas-Francois Regnault, Descriptions des principales monstruosites, 1808).

Monstrous child with multiple sensory organs (Nicolas-Francois Genault, Descriptions des principales monstruosites, 1808).

Tumor (Jean Louis Alibert, Clinique de l’Hopital Saint-Louis, 1833)

Lepra Nigrans (Jean Louis Alibert, Clinique de l’Hopital Saint-Louis, 1833)

The Cholick (George Cruickshank, 1835).

The Body Politic or the March of the Intellect (T.Mclean, 1836).

Electric Kingdom ‘Postmodern Arcimboldo’. Club Flyer, 13 March 1999.

This post was inspired by Marginalia’s post on Jan Jonston.