Fairy Tales & Folklore
The Kraken: Seen by the Eye of Imagination
An enormous many-armed creature grips the hull and rigging of a sailing ship beneath a dark, streaked sky. The source caption explicitly calls this the kraken as seen by the eye of imagination. The engraving belongs to the history of invented marine monsters in John Gibson’s Monsters of the Sea: the ship supplies scale, while the curling arms transform its orderly ropes into a threatening tangle.
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Illustrator not identified. "The Kraken: Seen by the Eye of Imagination" [editorial title]. In Monsters of the Sea, John Gibson. undated edition, Thomas Nelson and Sons. Source scan leaf 85. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0047-0069
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Illustrator not identified. The Kraken: Seen by the Eye of Imagination. Monsters of the Sea. Scan leaf 85. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0047-0069