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Unknown Artists

6,941 works

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in a laurel wreath holding a book, with Latin inscriptions and a landscape behind him

Nathanaelis Richards

Unknown artist, 1794

Hand-colored woodcut of Christ crucified between two thieves on crosses against a blue sky and green ground.

Christ on the Cross between the Two Thieves

Unknown artist, c. 1490/1500

Hand-coloured plate of a brown songbird with a long raised tail perched on a branch with green leaves.

Illustrations of Indian ornithology - Plate XIX

Unknown artist, 1847

General Braddock

Unknown artist, Date unknown

Hand-colored Japanese map of Nagasaki showing city blocks, harbor with sailing ships and junks, and surrounding hills.

Map of Nagasaki

Unknown artist, 1801

Woodcut plate of insects including mantises, a long segmented caterpillar, moths, beetles and grasshoppers on aged paper.

Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum - Plate (page 349)

Unknown artist, 1634

Burr

Unknown artist, Date unknown

WWI recruitment poster with a kangaroo, silhouetted marching soldiers with bayonets, and text promising 50,000 more men to Br

Australia has promised Britain 50,000 more men; will you help us keep that promise

Unknown artist, 1915

Engraved plate of three flatfish labeled La Limande, Le Flétan and La Sole, from an 1800 fish atlas.

Atlas des poissons - Plate 46

Unknown artist, 1800

Engraved oval portrait of a older man in dark suit with bow tie, framed by ornate scrolled border and signature below.

Thomas N. Beutou

Unknown artist, 1858

Wartime poster showing fish, potatoes, carrots, beets and beans with text urging fish and vegetable meals to save wheat, meat

Fish & vegetable meals will save wheat, meat & fats for our soldiers and allies

Unknown artist, 1914

Hand-coloured plate of Azara's dog, a russet fox-like canid standing on rocky ground beneath palm fronds.

Dogs, jackals, wolves, and foxes - Plate XVII

Unknown artist, 1890

Engraved oval portrait of a man in a powdered wig and dark coat, captioned Admiral Hawke, on cream paper.

Admiral Hawke

Unknown artist, Date unknown

Wartime poster of two women with jars of preserved food and fresh produce, urging readers to preserve food now for winter.

Waste not, want not - prepare for winter

Unknown artist, 1914

Watercolor of a sassafras tree beside a split-rail fence and dirt path, with a field and distant trees behind it.

Familiar trees and their leaves, described and illustrated by F. Schuyler Mathews, with il - Plate (page 73)

Unknown artist, 1911

Engraved portrait of a man in a dark military uniform with epaulettes, bust-length, within an oval vignette.

Captain Alexander Bielaski

Unknown artist, Date unknown

Wartime poster of a man and woman beside sacks marked hoarded flour and sugar, with a shadowy inspector at the window.

Are you breaking the law? Patriotic Canadians will not hoard food

Unknown artist, 1914

Hand-coloured plate of a reddish-brown hamster, labelled Cricetus auratus, clinging to a tree trunk.

Zoologia typica - Plate 27

Unknown artist, 1849

Engraved portrait of Richard, Earl Howe, a bald-crowned admiral with white side hair in a dark naval uniform and white cravat

Richard, Earl Howe

Unknown artist, Date unknown

WWI recruiting poster showing a Canadian soldier with rifle and pack in front of a Union Jack, framed by maple leaves.

Heros of St. Julien and Festubert ... shall we follow their example?

Unknown artist, 1916

Coloured plate V showing numbered British butterflies with orange, cream, brown and black wing patterns, 1885.

British butterflies - Plate V

Unknown artist, 1885

Black and white print of Betsy Ross seated with a star-spangled fabric and scissors, with American flags behind her.

Betsy Ross

Unknown artist, Date unknown

WWI recruitment poster showing uniformed soldiers charging with bayonets beneath large red and yellow numerals 245.

Forward! To victory with the 245 Overseas Canadian Grenadier Guards Battalion

Unknown artist, 1914

Sepia scientific plate of mantis shrimp species with full-body views and magnified claw and tail details.

Figures and descriptions of nine species of Squillidae - Plate IV

Unknown artist, 1895

Oval engraved portrait of a man in a curled wig and armor, with an inscription naming George Rooke, Vice Admiral.

George Rooke Vice Admiral

Unknown artist, Date unknown

Poster of a kilted Highlander soldier with fixed bayonet urging enlistment in the 73rd Battalion, Montreal, 1914.

The happy man today is the man at the front. Royal Highlanders of Canada ... join the 73rd now

Unknown artist, 1914

Hand-colored plate of a kinkajou climbing a tree and a red panda standing on a branch, labeled Figures 77 and 78.

Bilder-Atlas zur wissenschaftlich-populären Naturgeschichte der Säugethiere in ihren sämmt - Plate (page 73)

Unknown artist, 1860

Engraved portrait of a man with curly hair in a dark jacket and white cravat, with a cursive signature below.

Samuel Stanston

Unknown artist, Date unknown

WWI recruitment poster with a freed man, broken chains, marching soldiers, a Union Jack, and three framed portrait medallions

The Jews the world over love liberty, have fought for it & will fight for it ... enlist with the infantry Reinforcements

Unknown artist, 1914

Coloured botanical plate of Avena flavescens showing grass stems, panicle, roots and numbered floral detail drawings.

Les meilleures plantes fourragères - Plate 6

Unknown artist, 1883

Black and white reproduction of a portrait of an older man in a dark military coat with powdered hair, with printed biography

Baron de Gustavus Henry Johann Rosenthal

Unknown artist, Date unknown

Poster of a mounted Canadian soldier with binoculars, three riders behind him, with text Canadian Mounted Rifles, Quick Servi

Canadian Mounted Rifles

Unknown artist, 1914