Dragons from Astronomy, Anatomy, and Religion

Post-Medieval to Victorian Dragons and Beyond

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons. ~J.R.R. Tolkien

Can there be such a thing as too many dragons? I've divided up the dragon tile pages for ease of loading. More dragon tiles: Ancient Dragons and Medieval Dragons

Dragons are found in nearly every culture. These are post-medieval to Victorian dragons from Victorian anatomical texts, folklore, and Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau designs. Here are dragons from William Morris textile designs, a William De Morgan dragon design in his 'Persian' palette, as well as dragons taken from Golden Age illustrations.

Victorian and Folklore Dragons

Constellation Draco from Ptolemy's Almagest, 1690

William Buelow Gold, 1832, Leafy Sea Dragon

Mercurius as three-headed dragon, Rosicrucian Compendium, 1760

Winged dragon of Wales

William De Morgan Persian dragon

Back and Company's Old Snap Spirits Dragon, 1832

Back and Company's Old Snap Spirits Dragon, c. 1832

Draco and Ursa Minor constellation card, 1825. The Hesperian Drakon, a 100-headed serpent dragon named Ladon, guarded the immortal golden apples of the Hesperides.

Ouroboros dragon from the Clavis Inferni sive magia alba et nigra approbata Metratona, 18th century

Infinity dragon based on JRR Tolkien drawing of a Middle Earth dragon

Celtic Dragon, Friedrich Johann Justin Bertuch, Bilderbuch fur Kinder 1806

Three-headed dragon based on Arthur Rackham dragon

Maxfield Parrish Reluctant Dragon

Dark and light dragons from the Clavis Inferni sive magia alba et nigra approbata Metratona, a late 18th century book of magic

Uricus, a red-crowned and winged ouroboros dragon, as King of the East, Clavis Inferni

Uricus, a red-crowned and winged serpent ouroboros dragon, as King of the East, Clavis Inferni sive magia alba et nigra approbata Metratona, 18th century