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Unknown Artists

6,941 works

Engraved scientific plate showing numbered drawings of mantis shrimp bodies, appendages, and magnified anatomical details.

Figures and descriptions of nine species of Squillidae - Plate III

Unknown artist, 1895

Pen and brown ink drawing with wash of robed figures gathered before classical arches, kneeling men in foreground, distant to

Joseph and His Brother in Egypt [verso]

Unknown artist, 17th century

Monochrome engraved portrait of a mustached man in a dark suit, with red printed biographical text below.

Newell Dwight Hillis

Unknown artist, Date unknown

Hand-colored plate of a Magellanic dog (colpeo) walking over rocks with a mountain behind it, 1890.

Dogs, jackals, wolves, and foxes - Plate XIV

Unknown artist, 1890

Endpaper with dense reddish-brown floral and scrolling vine pattern on a gold ground within a rust-colored border.

Endpaper with Floral Pattern

Lithographic portrait of Reverend Charles Beatty in a white wig and black clerical coat against a dark oval background.

Reverend Charles Beatty

Unknown artist, Date unknown

Pencil drawing of a persimmon tree with two trunks and spreading branches in an open field, from a 1911 book.

Familiar trees and their leaves, described and illustrated by F. Schuyler Mathews, with il - Plate (page 65)

Unknown artist, 1911

Pink sheet with dense gold mixed floral pattern of blossoms, leaves and scrolling vines inside a thin gold border.

Endpaper with Mixed Floral Pattern

Green block-printed sheet with rows of animals including an elephant, lions, deer, horses and dogs around a standing hunter.

Endpaper with Animals

Unknown artist, c. 1790/1850

Coloured plate of a brown wild goat with long curved horns standing on a rocky ledge against a pale landscape.

Zoologia typica - Plate 21

Unknown artist, 1849

Engraved portrait of a man in black robe and white collar, with the script name Edward Rawson beneath.

Edward Rawson

Unknown artist, Date unknown

Gold figures of men and women in period dress on a maroon ground, arranged in four rows with flowers, animals and a palm tree

Endpaper - "Zwarg Gesellschaft"

Unknown artist, c. 1780

Hand-coloured plate of three butterfly and moth specimens with spread wings, numbered 1, 1a and 2, from an 1846 entomology bo

Descriptions and figures of some new lepidopterous insects, chiefly from Nepal - Plate 4

Unknown artist, 1846

Printed sheet in olive-green ink on pink paper showing many birds in rows, including roosters, peacocks, herons and owls, wit

Endpaper with Birds

Unknown artist, c. 1780

Dallas Cadwallader Irish

Unknown artist, Date unknown

Hand-coloured 1832 plate of chiton mollusks showing segmented shells in dorsal and ventral views, numbered figures on cream p

The conchological illustrations or, Coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured recent - Plate (page 97)

Unknown artist, 1832

Gold-printed endpaper on blue ground showing four framed scenes of figures, including a horse, a blacksmith and soldiers.

Endpaper with Four Circus (?) Scenes

Red endpaper printed in gold with three bands of courtly scenes showing armored figures, horsemen, castle walls and a seated

Endpaper with Three Bands of Courtly Scenes

Three coloured plates of mammals: a spotted genet on a rock, an Egyptian mongoose with prey, and a palm civet on a branch.

Bilder-Atlas zur wissenschaftlich-populären Naturgeschichte der Säugethiere in ihren sämmt - Plate (page 57)

Unknown artist, 1860

Engraved bust portrait of a woman with powdered hair and floral lace dress, labeled Cornelia Beekman, with signature below.

Cornelia Beekman

Unknown artist, Date unknown

Grey wash drawing of Christ with an open book at a lectern, surrounded by scholars in a columned hall.

Christ Disputing with the Doctors

Unknown artist, c. 1600

Botanical plate of a tall forage grass with leaves, flower spikes and magnified floret dissections, labelled Taf. 5.

Les meilleures plantes fourragères - Plate 5

Unknown artist, 1883

Engraved oval portrait of a man in a beret and dark cloak, labeled Raphael d'Urbino, from 1826.

Raphael d'Urbino

Unknown artist, 1826

Man in a Fantastic Helmet

Unknown artist, c. 1470/1480

Hand-coloured 1832 bird plate showing two perching birds on branches, one black and orange with a long tail, one brown.

Kupfertafeln zur Naturgeschichte der Vögel - Plate 11

Unknown artist, 1832

Two-panel woodcut: musicians at a banquet on the left, soldiers with cannons and fighting animals on the right, under a Germa

Allegory of War and Peace

Unknown artist, 1499

Hand-colored woodcut of Pilate washing his hands before Christ, with a golden halo and onlookers in red and green robes.

Pilate Washing His Hands

Unknown artist, c. 1490

Hand-coloured plate of moths, caterpillars and a chrysalis around a plant sprig with white flowers.

Iconographie et description de chenilles et lépidopteres inédits - Plate 1

Unknown artist, 1859

Black and white engraving of a woman with pearls in her hair, holding a staff, with two cherubs above her left.

Susan Armine, Lady Belasyse

Unknown artist, Date unknown

Hand-colored woodcut of Christ carrying a cross, helped by a man in red, with haloed onlookers behind.

Christ Bearing the Cross

Unknown artist, c. 1490

Hand-coloured conchology plate IX showing numbered land and freshwater snail and bivalve shells in a grid.

Illustrations of the land and fresh water conchology of Great Britain and Ireland - Plate IX

Unknown artist, 1845

Oval engraved portrait of Lord Howe in a military coat with a frilled cravat, within a ruled border.

Lord Howe

Unknown artist, Date unknown