Photo Safari: I Need Pictures of Griffins

Hi Noddy:

Help yourself.

http://www.thanasis.com/griffin.htm

Lots of great ones there!

Tenniel's is always the one I think of first:

The symbol of Perugia is a griffin, I think. There should be photos of it at travel sites about Perugia...

Not very good quality, only version of this I've found online this far:



(Except for one tattoo of the griffon dancing the lobster quadrille, on his own -- very cool!)

Bobsmyhawk--

Marvelous! Just the sort of portrait gallery I was hoping for.

Sozobe--

I'm not sure that the English Victorian Mind grasped the full sweaty reality of a griffin in umbrage. Not that Tenniel is to be despised--I have a very soft spot for the man who particularized Alice.

Here's a link with several photos - I remembered that the griffin is the city symbol of Perugia.
http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/griffins/8.html


This seems a fantastic source of inspiration - but pictures not to be removed without asking for permission.

Ossobuco--

I think the Perugia Tourist Bureau has devalued the Griffin. After all, Rich American Tourists are not necessarily going to read the footnotes.

Hmm, I ain't rich and I appreciated the sight of the griffin when I was there.

That site has a lot of Griffins in Art...

Ossobuco--

Great link. I'm rather bemused by the repeated use of the Griffin in St. Petersburg. If the griffin is a desert beast, Russia must be even less hospitable than te British Isles.

What I meant to say--and said poorly--is that the Tourist Board wants to attract tourists and there are probably more people who are unfamiliar with griffins than griffin enthusiasts.

Snobbish, but I treasure the riches of the mind over the well-stocked pocketbook.

P.S. I need the pictures for my own education--I promise to eschew poaching.

I loved that link - some gorgeous griffin statues...

I'm all for the mind...
wouldn't mind a lil more money!

Lots of them on the internet!

Francis--

Thank you. Griffins with a Gallic flavor.

One more?

Francis--

If I didn't admit him to the gallery, I suspect he'd gate crash. That is a Griffin with an Attitude.