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Unknown Artists

6,941 works

Symmetrical folk-art arrangement of many animals, including giraffes, elephants, lions and peacocks, in rows on a beige groun

Cutout of Animals

Unknown artist, second quarter 19th century

Engraved oval portrait of bearded Col. W. R. Lee in dark military uniform, framed by a gold border.

William Raymond Lee

Unknown artist, 1850

Engraved bust portrait of a man with curly hair in a dark jacket and striped tie, printed on a text page.

Samuel Green Sentenced to the Penitentiary for Ten Years for Having a Copy of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in His House

Unknown artist, 1870

Engraved bust portrait of a bearded man in a suit and bow tie, captioned John Henry Hill, Page 189.

John Henry Hill

Unknown artist, 1870

Engraved oval portrait of a man with wavy hair and bow tie, captioned Stephen A. Douglass, on a tan octagonal mount.

Stephen Arnold Douglas

Unknown artist, 1850

Oval stipple engraved portrait of a man in a dark coat and white cravat, captioned Robert Bloomfield, on a book page.

Robert Bloomfield

Unknown artist, 1800

Engraved oval portrait of a man with wavy hair and a bow tie, captioned Hon. Jos. Holt, in a gold-toned mat.

Joseph Holt

Unknown artist, 1850

Poster showing a worker with an ice hook over cut ice blocks, with workers and an ice house behind, promoting the ice harvest

Help in the harvest ice is needed to save food for the starving people of the world /

Unknown artist, 1910

Sepia lithograph group portrait of President Grover Cleveland and eight cabinet members in period dress, names printed below.

Cleveland and his Cabinet

Unknown artist, 1861

Engraved botanical plate of a branch with veined leaves and clusters of small flower buds, labeled Hufelandia Thomaea.

Annexa est Plantarum laurinarum secundum affinitates naturales expositio - Plate (page 32)

Unknown artist, 1833

Hand-coloured plate of a colourful pigeon, a goldfinch on a pedestal, and morning glory vines against a cream background.

The language of birds - Plate 1

Unknown artist, 1837

Engraved natural history plate of numbered bivalve mollusk shells and hinge details from an 1826 Corsican catalogue.

Catalogue descriptif et méthodique des annelides et des mollusques de l'ile de Corse - Plate 1

Unknown artist, 1826

Hand-coloured engraved plate of Hydnum squamosum mushrooms showing caps, stems and gills in several views.

Histoire des champignons de la France, ou, Traité élémentaire, renfermant dans un ordre - Plate 409

Unknown artist, 1791

Sepia plate showing a bird skeleton in side view with a separate skull, wing and leg bones, captioned Japanisches Zwerghuhn.

Abbildungen von Vogel-Skeletten - Plate XV

Unknown artist, 1879

Engraved plate of fifteen numbered mollusc shells, spiral snails and ribbed bivalves, arranged in rows on cream paper.

Illustrations of the recent conchology of Great Britain and Ireland - Plate II

Unknown artist, 1844

Botanical plate of Exacum pedunculare with flowering stems, roots, and numbered flower and seed detail drawings.

Icones plantarum Indiae Orientalis - Plate 336

Unknown artist, 1840

Engraving of a speckled duck, Anas carolinensis, standing on a grassy bank beside water.

Sir William Jardine's illustrations of the duck tribe - Plate 1

Unknown artist, 1840

Etching of a seated woman in a plumed hat and two standing women with infants in a rural setting with a cottage.

Bohemians

Unknown artist, 17th century

Engraved plate with six illustrated figures of sea snails and molluscs with spiral shells and tentacles.

Figures of molluscous animals - Plate 4

Unknown artist, 1859

Grid of numbered pen drawings of grasses and sedges with stems, leaves, roots and small flower heads, titled Triandria.

The pictorial flora - Plate (page 19)

Unknown artist, 1840

Colour plate of six bird eggs labelled osprey, Iceland falcon, Greenland falcon, honey buzzard and peregrine, from 1883.

A history of British birds - Plate 3

Unknown artist, 1883

Hand-coloured drawing of a spiral sea shell with its dark open aperture, on a cream page, from an 1799 natural history plate.

The natural history of British shells - Plate XXXVIII

Unknown artist, 1799

Coloured plate of a pocket gopher, Geomys bursarius, clinging to a grassy bank with large claws.

The mammals of Minnesota - Plate (page 8)

Unknown artist, 1892

Hand-coloured engraved plate XXII showing twelve numbered figures of bees, ants and wasps with lettered anatomical details.

Illustratio iconographica insectorum quæ in Musæis Parisinis - Plate XXII

Unknown artist, 1799

Hand-colored plate of a male and female great tit perched on pine branches with cones, labeled Parus major.

Naturgeschichte der Vögel deutschlands in getreuen Abbildungen und Beschreibungen - Plate 7

Unknown artist, 1805

Hand-coloured plate of numbered insects including mosquitoes and crane flies, with larvae, pupae and wing details, labelled I

Manuscript notes from my journal - Plate I

Unknown artist, 1874

Engraved plate of numbered bivalve shells, including scallops and mussels, with a magnified surface detail.

Catalogue descriptif et méthodique des annelides et des mollusques de l'ile de Corse - Plate 2

Unknown artist, 1826

Coloured plate of a common rorqual whale near a rocky coast, with sailboats and people on shore, from British mammals 1903.

British mammals - Plate (page 73)

Unknown artist, 1903

Engraved botanical plate of a leafy branch with flower clusters and numbered dissections of floral parts and seeds.

Annexa est Plantarum laurinarum secundum affinitates naturales expositio - Plate (page 33)

Unknown artist, 1833

Hand-coloured plate of a brown songbird with red breast perched on a bramble branch with blackberries and berries.

The language of birds - Plate 5

Unknown artist, 1837

Hand-colored plate of nine butterflies showing upper and under wing views in brown, orange, black and cream tones.

Rhopalocera Malayana :a description of the butterflies of the Malay Peninsula : with 46 co - Plate VIII

Unknown artist, 1882

Engraved plate of numbered sea shells, two large abalone-type shells with smaller specimens around them.

Illustrations of the recent conchology of Great Britain and Ireland - Plate XII

Unknown artist, 1844