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Unknown Artists

6,941 works

Engraved plate showing a finback whale and a bowhead whale in side view, with captions giving scientific names and lengths.

Suggestions to the keepers of the U.S. life-saving stations, light-houses, and light-ships - Plate X

Unknown artist, 1884

Coloured botanical plate of Pimprenelle, Poterium sanguisorba, with compound green leaves and a cluster of white flowers.

Atlas de poche des plantes des champs, des prairies et des bois - Plate 111

Unknown artist, 1895

Hand-coloured plate of two mottled brown nightjar birds perched on mossy ground beside ferns, with a Latin caption.

Icones avium, or, Figures and descriptions of new and interesting species of birds from va - Plate (page 70)

Unknown artist, 1837

Colored plate of fifteen numbered yellow and white butterflies with brown wing margins on a pale blue background.

The butterfly book - Plate XXXV

Unknown artist, 1922

Pencil drawings of numbered mollusk shells, including elongated bivalves and a ridged spiral gastropod, on a cream page.

Philip Pearsall Carpenter's illustrations of mollusk specimens, accompanied by species ind - Plate 59

Unknown artist, 1857

Coloured plate of a Virginian deer buck with branched antlers walking across grass in winter coat, from an 1898 deer book.

The deer of all lands - Plate XX

Unknown artist, 1898

Engraved plate of numbered goniatite fossil shells with cross-sections and suture line diagrams, 1835.

Illustrations of the geology of Yorkshire, or, A description of the strata and organic rem - Plate XIX

Unknown artist, 1835

Hand-coloured engraving of a black hornbill with an orange bill perched on a branch, with a caption below.

Planches enluminées d'histoire naturelle - Plate 780

Unknown artist, 1765

Engraved entomology plate XXIX with numbered figures of insect larvae, wings, bristles, leaves and cross sections, 1828.

An introduction to entomology - Plate XXIX

Unknown artist, 1828

Rotated scientific plate of earthworm anatomy with red vascular systems, segmented bodies and labeled microscopic figures.

Atlas d'anatomie comparée des invertébrés - Plate 48

Unknown artist, 1890

Engraved botanical plate of a senna branch with compound leaves, seed pod and flowers, numbered Tab. 97.

Thesaurus zeylanicus - Plate 97

Unknown artist, 1737

Engraved plate of four wading birds with long legs and bills, labeled in German, from an 1835 natural history book.

Die Naturgeschichte in getreuen Abbildungen und mit ausführlicher Beschreibung derselben - Plate 161

Unknown artist, 1835

Hand-coloured 1859 plate of four shield bugs in blue, yellow and tan, labelled with species names below.

American entomology - Plate 43

Unknown artist, 1859

Engraved plate of catfish and two stingrays with long tails, labeled with numbers and Latin and Italian names.

Historiae naturalis de quadrupedibus libri - Plate XXXVIII

Unknown artist, 1657

Hand-coloured botanical plate of a monkshood plant with violet hooded flowers, lobed leaves, and a detailed root drawing.

Florae Austriacae, sive, Plantarum selectarum in Austriae archiducatu - Plate 381

Unknown artist, 1773

Hand-coloured plate of a Duvaucel's trogon with black head, blue bill, red breast and orange tail, perched on a branch.

Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux - Plate 291

Unknown artist, 1838

Hand-coloured plate of eight numbered ground beetles in red, blue, brown and green, with species names beneath.

Histoire naturelle et iconographie des insectes coléoptères d'Europe - Plate XII

Unknown artist, 1822

Engraved plate of fifteen numbered illustrations of northwest American marine snail shells in varied views.

Summary of the marine shellbearing mollusks of the northwest coast of America - Plate 18

Unknown artist, 1921

Engraved plate of a canine skull in side view with open jaws showing the teeth, captioned Teeth of the Genus Canis.

General and particular descriptions of the vertebrated animals - Plate 51

Unknown artist, 1821

Black-and-white botanical plate of two Eupatorium species with flowering stems and detailed floret and flower head dissection

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum - Plate 90

Unknown artist, 1840

Engraved plate of a black grouse standing on snowy ground beside grass tufts, with French caption below.

Atlas de poche des oiseaux de France, Suisse, et Belgique, utiles ou nuisibles - Plate VI

Unknown artist, 1898

Plate of ten numbered white butterflies with black markings and red eyespots, arranged in two columns on a pink background.

The butterfly book - Plate XXXIX

Unknown artist, 1922

Colored plate of many fishing lures, feathered flies and painted minnow spinners on hooks, arranged on a gray background.

Fisherman's lures and game-fish food - Plate 11

Unknown artist, 1920

Coloured plate of a pampas deer with branching antlers standing among tall grass and sandy ground.

The deer of all lands - Plate XXII

Unknown artist, 1898

Coloured plate of two ferns: broad Scolopendrium officinale fronds on the left and slender Asplenium trichomanes on the right

Atlas de poche des plantes des champs, des prairies et des bois - Plate 123

Unknown artist, 1895

Hand-coloured plate of a mottled brown nightjar perched on a rock beside a leafy green branch, labelled Lyncornis temminckii.

Icones avium, or, Figures and descriptions of new and interesting species of birds from va - Plate (page 74)

Unknown artist, 1837

Engraved plate of insect anatomy showing nerve chains, segmented bodies and internal organs with lettered labels.

An introduction to entomology - Plate XXX

Unknown artist, 1828

Three shaded drawings of spiral mollusk shells on a plate labeled 229, 291 and 221.

Philip Pearsall Carpenter's illustrations of mollusk specimens, accompanied by species ind - Plate 65

Unknown artist, 1857

Engraved plate of sixteen numbered Orthoceras fossil shells, conical and segmented, drawn in fine hatched lines.

Illustrations of the geology of Yorkshire, or, A description of the strata and organic rem - Plate XXI

Unknown artist, 1835

Hand-colored engraving of a crested purple heron with grey and rust plumage, long yellow legs and a curved neck, standing on

Planches enluminées d'histoire naturelle - Plate 788

Unknown artist, 1765

Hand-colored plate of five numbered Malachius beetles on grass stems, labeled with species names, from an 1859 entomology wor

American entomology - Plate 48

Unknown artist, 1859

Plate 53 of an 1890 invertebrate anatomy atlas with labeled line drawings of rotifers and Balanoglossus.

Atlas d'anatomie comparée des invertébrés - Plate 53

Unknown artist, 1890