Date:1619
Description:Sea monsters were legendary for Shakespeare's contemporaries. In The Tempest (2,2, lines 24-40) Trinculo imagines he has found a sea-monster when he discovers Caliban hiding from the approaching storm under his gaberdine (smock). Full title: America Map of the Americas, from Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius Atlas, France, 1619. ](hand-coloured)
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