New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome and Firefox. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome Add to Firefox

Unknown Artists

6,941 works

Hand-coloured botanical plate showing numbered trees, cacti, an agave in flower and a pineapple plant in rows.

Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus - Plate 1

Unknown artist, 1811

Hand-colored plate of two Trechus ground beetles with small reference views and uncolored anatomical drawings of antennae and

Helvetische Entomologie, oder, Verzeichniss der schweizerischen Insekten nach einer neuen - Plate II

Unknown artist, 1798

Hand-coloured plate of six numbered chiton shells showing dorsal and ventral views, from an 1815 conchology book.

General conchology, or, A description of shells, arranged according to the Linnean system - Plate 3

Unknown artist, 1815

Black-and-white photographs of five fossil mammal skull and jaw fragments with visible teeth, numbered 1 to 5 on a plate.

Monographie de la faune de mammifères fossiles du Ludien inférieur d'Euzet-les-Bains Gard - Plate (page 353)

Unknown artist, 1917

Hand-coloured plate of pink and white Epiphyllum truncatum flowers on green cactus stems against a cream background.

The Florist's journal and gardener's record - Plate (page 10)

Unknown artist, 1846

Hand-coloured plate of a grey goose with white head and dark neck standing on grass, labelled Anser picus Pall.

Descriptiones et icones animalium Rossicorum novorum vel minus rite cognitorum - Plate I

Unknown artist, 1836

Hand-coloured plate of a banded winged insect, a flowering clover sprig, and detailed insect anatomy studies.

British entomology - Plate 576

Unknown artist, 1829

Watercolor and ink design drawing of an ornate baroque candlestick with scrolled feet and floral decoration, with a scale bar

Design for a Candlestick

Unknown artist, 1770

Round miniature portrait of a man in a blue embroidered coat, grey powdered wig and star insignia, in a brass frame.

Portrait of Louis XVI (1754-93), king of France

Unknown artist, 1775 - 1800

Black and cream 1914 recruitment poster of an athlete leaping over rifle-bearing soldiers, with Irish Canadian Rangers text.

Jump into your place in the Sportsman's Company of the Irish Canadian Rangers

Unknown artist, 1914

Poster for Canadian war savings stamps showing a green stamp of a soldier with a torch and flag, with price tables in French.

Canada timbres d'epargne de guerre. Venez en aide au pays

Unknown artist, 1918

WWI recruitment poster showing four soldiers in front of Belgian, French, British flags, with French text urging enlistment.

Canadiens-Francais! Le Prussien est encore sur le sol de France ... Enrolez-vous dans le 189e Bataillon, F.E.C

Unknown artist, 1915

WWI-era recruitment poster with crossed Union Jack and Red Ensign flags and text urging men to enlist at once.

Did you do anything to beat Germany last year! You can do something this year. Enlist at once!

Unknown artist, 1915

WWI recruitment poster: smiling officer in khaki beside a globe, rooster labeled France fighting an eagle labeled Allemagne,

Canadiens Francais. Venez avec nous dans le 150ieme Bataillon C.M.R. Aider a la victoire du coq Gaulois sur l'aigle P…

Unknown artist, 1915

Poster with skeletal figure over a factory and wheat sheaf offered to three men, title Kohle ist Brot in blackletter.

Kohle ist Brot

Unknown artist, 1918

Vintage German political poster of a red-coated figure with a torch over a map of Bavaria, with slogan text below.

Bayern, der Bolshewik geht um! Hinaus mit ihm am Wahltag!

Unknown artist, 1919

Poster with large black and red curved shapes on beige paper above bold German capital letters advertising a 1916 Hamburg war

Deutsche Kriegsausstellung Hamburg

Unknown artist, 1916

Poster of a smiling German officer in grey uniform holding champagne, with a flag and brick wall behind him.

Feist-Feldgrau, Sektkellerei Frankfurt a.M. A.G

Unknown artist, 1917

Wartime poster of a winged woman raising a sword, shield reading 'the world safe for democracy', above text promoting Liberty

There is a Liberty Bond in this house

Unknown artist, 1918

Poster showing the Lusitania sinking in smoke, with lifeboats and swimmers, under the text urging Irishmen to join a regiment

Irishmen - avenge the Lusitania. Join an Irish regiment to-day

Unknown artist, 1915

1918 recruitment poster showing a smiling farm woman with a pitchfork and a shadowed soldier with rifle behind her.

Get behind the girl he left behind him Join the land army /

Unknown artist, 1918

Poster showing a soldier beside an ambulance marked with a red cross, with stretcher bearers and smoke in the background, in

This is the only American ambulance now saving lives in Russia The American ambulance in Russia /

Unknown artist, 1914

Poster with a glowing red cross above a dark sea and a verse honoring Red Cross sisters lost on hospital ships.

Missing! To the sisters of the Red Cross who have perished in hospital ships sunk by German submarines

Unknown artist, 1918

Wartime British recruitment poster: a young man in a suit beside an older woman with her hand on his shoulder, on orange.

Go! It's your duty lad. Join to-day

Unknown artist, 1915

Poster showing cavalry horsemen charging past an exploding shell, with the caption 'At the Front!' and an enlistment call bel

At the front! Every fit Briton should join our brave men at the front. Enlist now

Unknown artist, 1915

Red and black 1914 British recruitment poster with treaty text, drawn wax seals and signatures, and the words Enlist To-day.

The scrap of paper - Prussia's perfidy - Britain's bond [...] Enlist to-day

Unknown artist, 1914

British 1915 recruitment poster showing Lord Kitchener in military uniform with a quote urging men to enlist today.

Lord Kitchener says: Enlist to-day

Unknown artist, 1915

Horizontal 1915 British recruitment poster with six smiling soldiers in khaki caps above the slogan Join the brave throng tha

Join the brave throng that goes marching along

Unknown artist, 1915

Recruitment poster with silhouetted soldiers beside a cannon and a biplane, quoting Lord Kitchener: Enlist to-day.

"Be honest with yourself. Be certain that your so-called reason is not a selfish excuse." Lord Kitchener. Enlist to-day

Unknown artist, 1915

Colorful 1888 French theatre poster for Concert Parisien, showing a man, a knight in armor, dancers and a parade.

CONCERT PARISIEN/ PAS DE REVUE/ REVUE/ de/ Fin d'Année/ de MM. B. LEBRETON & H. MOREAU. Musique de M. Meyronnet, Joué…

Unknown artist, 1888

Colour poster advertising Jenny Mills at the Grand Concert Parisien, showing a woman in a plumed hat within an oval frame.

GRAND/ CONCERT PARISIEN/ 37/ FAUBG SAINT-DENIS/ PARIS/ Pour la location & les Voitures/ 10/ RUE DE L'ECHIQUIER/ TOUS…

Unknown artist, 1888

Poster of a long-haired woman in white and blue robes holding the French tricolour, advertising the Concert Parisien nightly.

CONCERT PARISIEN/ 37, Rue du Fg. St. Denis/ TOUS/ LES/ SOIRS/ LES/ TROIS/ COULEURS/ BORDAS

Unknown artist, 1900