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Unknown Artists

6,941 works

Hand-coloured botanical plate of Chenopodium viride with green leaves, flower spikes, roots and detail drawings.

Flora Londinensis, or, Plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs - Plate 16

Unknown artist, 1777

Pen and ink drawing of two birds and a cricket on branches, with a castle and town in the distant landscape.

Two Birds and a Cricket

Unknown artist, late 17th century

Indian painting of a royal procession with elephants, horsemen and a sage beside hunting dogs and tigers.

Four Princes in Procession Visit a Sage, page from a copy of the Ramayana

Unknown artist, c. 1820-1840

Hand-coloured plate of a red and black black-masked tanager perched on a branch beside green leaves.

A selection of the birds of Brazil and Mexico - Plate 17

Unknown artist, 1841

Red chalk drawing of a smiling boy in a feathered hat holding a rommelpot and stick, with a cast shadow.

The Rommelpot Player

Unknown artist, 18th century

Black chalk portrait of a man in a powdered wig and draped robe, resting his hand on a desk beside an inkwell.

Portrait of a Man Holding a Pen

Unknown artist, early second quarter 18th century

Hand-coloured 1846 plate showing two swallowtail-type butterflies, one yellow and black above and one pale with black bands b

Descriptions and figures of some new lepidopterous insects, chiefly from Nepal - Plate 3

Unknown artist, 1846

Painted lion with gold star dots on a manuscript page, with red Arabic title above, from a Timurid star book.

The Constellation Leo, folio probably from the Kitab suwar al-kawakib al-thabita (Book of the Images of the Fixed Stars)

Unknown artist, Timurid dynasty (ca. 1370-1507), dated c.1500

Illuminated Qur'an page with five panels of Arabic calligraphy in gold and blue cartouches and a floral arabesque border.

Right-Hand Page from the Qur'an

Unknown artist, Safavid dynasty (1501-1722)، 16th century

Plate of three line drawings of mantis shrimp specimens shown from above, with labelled species names and magnifications.

Figures and descriptions of nine species of Squillidae - Plate II

Unknown artist, 1895

Persian miniature of men gathered in a courtyard with musicians, a reclining figure, flowering trees and a horse.

Judge (Qazi) of Hamadan in a Drunken State, a scene from the Gulistan of Sa'di

Unknown artist, about 1550

Miniature painting of a seated ruler under a canopy with courtiers and chained prisoners in a flowering garden.

Chained Prisoners are Brought Before a King, a scene from the Gulistan of Sa'di

Unknown artist, c. 1550

Engraved plate of a hooded flying squirrel with spread gliding membrane and bushy tail, numbered Plate 78.

The natural history of quadrupeds, and cetaceous animals - Plate 78

Unknown artist, 1811

Persian miniature of armored men gathered around a reclining figure in orange, with a kneeling man in blue beside a green tre

Iskander Comforts the Dying Darius

Unknown artist, 1590

Painted Indian folio: a serpent arches over a palace while figures in blue and red move toward a bed, with lotuses below.

The Infant Krishna Spirited Away by Vasudev, from a copy of the Dispersed Bhagavat Purana

Unknown artist, c. 1520-1530

Hand-coloured botanical plate of a Chirita sinensis plant with white flowers, green leaves and magnified dissection insets.

Herbier général de l'amateur, deuxiéme série - Plate (page 80)

Unknown artist, 1847

Indian miniature of two women feeding fish in a pool beside a terrace, with a standing man, palm trees, and lotus flowers.

Royal Women Feeding Fish

Unknown artist, c. 1740

Indian miniature painting of a couple on a canopied bed in a palace garden at night, attended by women, with a gold floral bo

Lovers in a Zenana Garden at Night

Unknown artist, 17th/18th century

Hand-coloured plate of two birds on a branch: one yellow and black, one red and black, with feathery foliage.

Illustrations of Indian ornithology - Plate XI

Unknown artist, 1847

Brown ink drawing of a seated allegorical woman with a playful putto beside her, set among swirling clouds.

Study of an Allegorical Female Figure with an Attendant Putto

Unknown artist, second half 18th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated woman and standing man beside a bench in a wooded park, ca. 1780.

Study for a Portrait: A Lady and a Gentleman in a Park

Unknown artist, ca. 1780

Engraved natural history plate TAB.11 with lettered figures of shipworm shells, larvae, and an insect, 1733.

Godofredi Sellii, J.U.D. ex Societate regia Londinensi Historia naturalis teredinis seu xy - Plate II

Unknown artist, 1733

Profile Portrait of Bishop Antonius Campanus of Agram (Zagreb)

Unknown artist, late 15th-early 16th century

Pencil sketch of a seated nude woman with raised arm beside a small winged cupid reaching through clouds.

Female Nude (Danaë)

Unknown artist, late 17th century

Hand-coloured plate of numbered chiton shell specimens in brown, green, black and red tones, labelled 22 to 30.

The conchological illustrations or, Coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured recent - Plate (page 65)

Unknown artist, 1832

Brown ink and wash drawing of a standing man bending over a reclining male nude on a ledge against a dark background.

Two Male Nudes

Unknown artist, probably 18th century

Watercolor of a thatched cottage with two figures, tall trees, and a distant church spire across flat land.

Cottage with a Distant Village

Unknown artist, 18th century

Dogs, jackals, wolves, and foxes - Plate X

Unknown artist, 1890

Pen and brown ink drawing of Orpheus among classical ruins, with a lion, a deer and other animals gathered nearby.

Orpheus

Unknown artist, early 16th century

Italian Peasant Woman with Basket on her Head

Unknown artist, 1820-40

Watercolor plate of a tall sour gum tupelo tree beside a dirt road and stone wall, with evergreens in the background.

Familiar trees and their leaves, described and illustrated by F. Schuyler Mathews, with il - Plate (page 61)

Unknown artist, 1911

Painted view of a sunlit bay with a white coastal town, boats on the water, and three figures on a hillside.

View of Sorrento

Unknown artist, 1810-40