In the Wandering DMs aftershow chat last Sunday, several of our patrons started swapping classical illustrations of dragons with us. The moral: Dragons have undergone a radical inflation in recent years with the rise of the mass-market fantasy game. Here's a quick perusal over the last few centuries (everything to 1914 being depictions of the same scene, Saint George and the Dragon):
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| Anonymous, Ms. of Legenda aurea, 1382 | |
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| Bernat Martorell, 1434 |
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| Albrecht Dürer, 1501 |
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| Johann König, 1630 |
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| Unknown, early 1700's |
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| Gustave Moreau, 1889 |
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| Briton Rivière, 1914 |
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J.R.R Tolkien, 1936 (Bilbo the Hobbit on right)
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1st Edition cover to Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight, 1968
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Clyde Caldwell, Dragons of Despair, 1984
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| Jaime Jons, 2014 (5E D&D Starter Kit cover) |
My, how quickly they grow up!
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