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Prehistoric Crayfish
Prehistoric Crayfish
Masiakasaurus dinosaur and Astacoides crayfish, Madagascar, 72 to 66 million years ago. Art by P.Hamr
Dwarf Jurrassic crocodile and crayfish ancestor Eryma (misspelled). Harz mountains, Germany, by J.Knuppe
Eryma mandelslohi (Permian–Cretaceous) Stuttgart Musseum of Natural History
Jurassic Astacus Crayfish Fossil from Liaoning, China.
Crayfish, Eocene , about 50 million years ago. Green River Formation, Wyoming. USA.
Austropotamobius crayfish, early Cretaceaous wetland, Las Hoyas, Spain.
Triassic crayfish - by D. Henderson, Paleoartist.
Medieval Crayfish
Medieval Crayfish
Willem Vrelant's workshop, 1460s
marginalia/ bestiary 14th or 15th century.
Crayfish feast, mid 1400 an anonymous manuscript in the Austrian National Library in Vienna.
Exemplum de Tribus Latronibus,” 1450, Trier, Germany
Salone dei Mesi in Ferrara, by Cosimo Tura 1460s.
S. Munster 1522
Parmigano 1503-1540.
Rouen or Orléans, last quarter 15century
Jan Zizka famous Czech medieval military leader 1360-1424 (art M.Ales)
Jan Zizka's family crest
Unknown artist around 1560.
Reneissance & Early Modern Crayfish
Reneissance & Early Modern Crayfish
Sofonisba Anguissola c. 1532 - 1625. Boy Bitten by a Crayfish
Boy bitten by crayfish 17th century
J. Zahn, 1696, Astacus similus in the Marine Fish Catalog
Astacus crayfish. 1600s, albums of crustaceans and fish commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II.
"Diana and Her Nymphs Fishing ( by the Flemish Baroque painter Jan Brueghel the Elder in collaboration with Hendrick van Balen around 1621–1625.
"Noble crayfish" Baldner (1666).
René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, “Sur les diverses reproductions qui se font dans les Ecrevisses …,” Histoire de l’Académie Royale des Sciences, avec les Memoires … année 1712. "
1800s & Victorian Crayfish
1800s & Victorian Crayfish
Crayfish at Longchamps by Delacroxi, 1822
Prodromus of Zoology Victoria Euastacus (Australia ) 1878-1890.
Murray Spiny Crayfish, Ludwig Becker 1860 - 1861 (Australia,)
Astacoides crayfish from Madagascar Archives du Muséum d'HistoireNaturelle, Paris, 1841 (France)
F.E. Guerin-Meneville Dictionnaire Pittoresque d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris. 1836-1839.
Astacopsis tricornis by William Buelow Gould, Tasmanian convict 1832
James Audubon White Ibis & burrowing crayfish - Lacunicambarus ? (USA) 1829
Victorian Christmas card
Victorian Soap card. 1892
Alfons Mucha Zodiac crayfish 1869
Johann Heinrich (1735–1813)
Histoire naturelle P. A. Latreille 1796-1818.
Josef Manes, 1866. Zodiac - Cancer/July on mechanical clock in Praha, Czech Republic
C. Larson, the-crayfish-season-opens-1897: "The crayfish season-opens".
1900s
1900s
Giant Crayfish (actually Astacopsis gouldi) in A Naturalist in Tasmania by G. Smith 1909
Menu from La Vie Parissienne magazine 1920s
Crayfish catcher by Petr Sokolov, 1928 (Russia).
Crayfishing, 1939 (a saying) M. Ales . Czech artist.
Giant Tasmanian Crayfish (Astacopsis gouldi) mid 1900s
....perhaps the largest crayfish ever photographed, Tasmania.
"Crayfish in a stream" Board game Czechoslovakia 1959
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