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Czech George and the Dragon

Mikoláš Aleš, St George and the Dragon. Source.

George and the Dragon in Ethiopia

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Georg und der Drache

On the Rasthaus St. Johann in Saarbrücken. Source.

A Roman Dragon

An is non reddet qui domini patrimonium circumplexus quasi thesaurum draco, Pompei servus, libertus Caesaris, agri Lucani possessiones occupavit?

There is a former slave of Gnaeus Pompeius and freedman of Caesar's who has taken possession of lands in Lucania, coiled round his master's property like a dragon around a treasure: will he not give it back?

Cicero, Philippic 13.12 (pages 240-41 in the Loeb translation by Shackleton Bailey.)

Dragon Ceiling, Butsuden

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Kobayashi-san Chi no Meidoragon

George and the Dragon

Dragon and Fox

Check out the line work in this 17th-century Persian dragon. You'd think that China and Northern Germany were next door neighbours. Source.

Smaug by Tove Jansson

Tove Jansson illustrated the 1961 Swedish edition of The Hobbit. She has taken a lotta stick for not getting  all the details right, but she's done a pretty fine Smaug here. Source.

Victor Ambrus

I'm a huge fan of Victor Ambrus, an illustrator whose eye for historical costume is unsurpassed in our day and age. You might know him from Time Team, or from one of about a million children's books he's illustrated. Here's a set of stamps he designed for the Isle of Man. I pretty desperately need to study his book Ways of Drawing Hands. His website. Time Team Isle of Man episode.