manticore some manticore art

Book of Beasts
From T.H. White's 'The Book of Beasts.'

Topsell
From Topsell's 'Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes.'

Dease
A contemporary drawing based on the above.

The Devil
Ostensibly dating from the Middle Ages; it depicts the manticore as a symbol of the Devil.

manticore
An image from an unknown source.

Jerpoint Abbey
Kate Goodman of San Francisco sent me this picture of a manticore carved on a column at Jerpoint Abbey, a ruined Cisterician abbey near Kilkenny, Ireland.
Click on the picture to see a larger image.

Crimson ManticoreFlailing Manticore
Two cards from the 'Magic: the Gathering' RPG card game.

Legendz manticore card
A manticore (of sorts) from the 'Legendz' RPG card game.

Yu-gi-oh Manticore of Darkness card
A manticore from the Yu-Gi-Oh card game.



Five variations on the 'Warhammer' 'Necromancer on Manticore' gaming figure; the fourth and fifth ones appears to be rather different, but I don't have detailed information about them yet. They may be modifications of the original figures.


Another 'Warhammer' manticore, quite a different design.


Games Workshop must love manticores; this is the 'Warhammer' 'Dark Elf Beastmaster' manticore figure.

Ral Partha
The 'Ral Partha' manticore figure, still in its original packaging. This was the first one I ever found.

Unidentified
I don't know where this fellow comes from, but I do have a similar one in my collection, perhaps a victim of modification.

Monster in my Pocket
One of the rare manticore figures from the 'Monster in my Pocket' collection.

Nighthawk's Cardboard Heroes
The manticore character from a game called "Nighthawk's Cardboard Heroes."

Heroes of Might and Magic IIIHeroes of Might and Magic III
Screen grabs from 'Heroes of Might and Magic III'; on the left is the manticore, on the right the more powerful "scorpicore".

manticore of some sort
Last and least, a little manticore picture of unknown provenance.
(It's amazing what you can find on peer-to-peer networks, isn't it?)

    Michael Whelan painted the manticora for the cover for "A Spell for Chameleon".
    Boris Vallejo painted "The Man-Faced Manticore" for a 1993 calendar.
    William Neal painted one for the inside cover art on Emerson, Lake & Palmer's 'Tarkus' LP. A silhouette of a different one (see the top of the first page) appears on some of ELP's record labels, and on the box for their collection 'The Return of the Manticore.'
    A manticore can be seen in the film 'The Last Unicorn.'
    There are pictures online by Andre' Heinonen, WolfeByte and Michael Dougherty, as well as an astonishing variety collected together on the Elfwood site.
    'Maly' has created a manticore costume not unlike the one from the Legendz card shown above; a gallery of pictures of it can be seen on this LiveJournal site.

 
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Link and pictures added January 24, 2005