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Unknown Artists

6,941 works

Four stippled drawings of whale skull bones labeled Balaena cisarctica on a cream page.

Plates prepared for an unpublished monograph on the mammalian orders Cete and Sirenia - Plate IV

Unknown artist, 1881

Hand-coloured engraved plate of puffball fungi at various growth stages, with French captions below.

Histoire des champignons de la France, ou, Traité élémentaire, renfermant dans un ordre - Plate 435

Unknown artist, 1791

Colour plate of numbered dark swallowtail butterflies with yellow and orange wing spots, from a 1906 West Coast butterfly boo

The butterflies of the West Coast of the United States - Plate IV

Unknown artist, 1906

Engraved natural history plate showing numbered drawings of molluscs and sea snails with shells and tentacles.

Figures of molluscous animals - Plate 12

Unknown artist, 1859

Lithograph of a spotted sea leopard on a rock with a second seal in the surf and birds flying along the shore.

The mammals of Australia - Plate III

Unknown artist, 1871

Line drawing of a botanical branch with oval compound leaves and clusters of flowers, plus a detail of a seed pod spike.

Icones plantarum Indiae Orientalis - Plate 406

Unknown artist, 1840

Engraved illustration of a dark-headed duck with white flank patch standing on a rock beside grass, caption Anas tadornoides.

Sir William Jardine's illustrations of the duck tribe - Plate 2

Unknown artist, 1840

Numbered plate of fly-fishing hooks, feathered flies and tying diagrams with labelled parts, drawn in ink and colour.

The fly-fisher's entomology - Plate III

Unknown artist, 1901

Hand-coloured plate of two elongated bivalve shells, one open showing its interior and one closed showing ridged exterior.

The natural history of British shells - Plate LIII

Unknown artist, 1799

Two black and white photos of savanna grassland: a line of riders and pack animals crossing hills, and tall grass with one pe

Mammals of Panama - Plate 16

Unknown artist, 1920

Page of twelve numbered ink sketches of flowering plants with stems, leaves and blossoms, headed Pentandria.

The pictorial flora - Plate (page 61)

Unknown artist, 1840

Hand-colored 1811 plate showing six seashell specimens in pink, red, tan and blue arranged over faded descriptive text.

Conchology, or, The natural history of shells - Plate 11

Unknown artist, 1811

Black and white plate photograph of a puma lying stretched out on a wooden surface, labelled Felis concolor, Puma, Plate II.

The mammals of Minnesota - Plate II

Unknown artist, 1892

Hand-colored plate of an adult male Greater bird-of-paradise with yellow head, green throat and long white plumes on a branch

Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des épimaques - Plate 6

Unknown artist, 1835

Hand-coloured plate of three banded swallowtail butterflies on pink flowers and a green bulbous plant, numbered 55.

Arcana entomologica; or illustrations of new, rare and interesting insects - Plate 55

Unknown artist, 1841

Engraved natural history plate showing numbered mollusk shells, including ribbed bivalves and radially ridged limpet shells.

Catalogue descriptif et méthodique des annelides et des mollusques de l'ile de Corse - Plate 3

Unknown artist, 1826

Hand-coloured plate of a young brown bear cub on snow beside a green conifer branch, with French caption text.

Histoire naturelle des mammifères - Plate (page 78)

Unknown artist, 1824

Botanical plate showing Draba funiculosa and Cardamine hirsuta with coloured specimens and numbered flower dissections.

Illustrations of the flowering plants and ferns of the Falkland Islands - Plate 8

Unknown artist, 1921

Hand-coloured bird plate showing three wagtails on stones and a wooden plank over water, with a Latin and German caption.

Naturgeschichte der Vögel deutschlands in getreuen Abbildungen und Beschreibungen - Plate 19

Unknown artist, 1805

Hand-coloured plate of seventeen numbered Musca fly species with lettered detail views of wings and larvae.

Illustratio iconographica insectorum quæ in Musæis Parisinis - Plate XXIV

Unknown artist, 1799

Sepia engraving of numbered bivalve and mollusk shells, exterior and interior views, from an 1844 conchology plate.

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

Unknown artist, 1844

Colour plate of a snarling wolf standing over a dead white sheep in a forest, captioned The Last British Wolf.

British mammals - Plate (page 171)

Unknown artist, 1903

Hand-coloured natural history plate of numbered insects including flies, beetles, larvae and pupae arranged in rows.

Manuscript notes from my journal - Plate IV

Unknown artist, 1874

Plate 19 with five numbered line drawings of molluscs and shells, some side views and some dorsal views, from an 1859 natural

Figures of molluscous animals - Plate 19

Unknown artist, 1859

Etching of a crowded Italian town square with a tall tower, arched palazzo, market stalls and figures.

Piazza Publicca, Siena

Unknown artist, c. 1610-1660

Lithographic plate of eight numbered whale bone specimens, including vertebrae and baleen fragments, labeled Balaena cisarcti

Plates prepared for an unpublished monograph on the mammalian orders Cete and Sirenia - Plate V

Unknown artist, 1881

Botanical engraving of a flowering branch with large leaves, star-shaped blossoms, and a dissected flower detail, plate 440.

Icones plantarum Indiae Orientalis - Plate 440

Unknown artist, 1840

Printed plate of a bird skeleton showing skull, beak, neck vertebrae, ribcage and pelvis, captioned Notornis Hochstetteri Mey

Abbildungen von Vogel-Skeletten - Plate XXXV

Unknown artist, 1879

Colour plate of twenty-two numbered butterflies showing upper and under wing patterns in purple, blue, yellow and brown.

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

Unknown artist, 1882

Hand-coloured plate numbered 56 showing three British shell specimens, labelled 1, 2 and 3, from an 1799 natural history.

The natural history of British shells - Plate LVI

Unknown artist, 1799

Lithograph of two Australian water-rats, one on a grassy mound with shells and one near dead branches.

The mammals of Australia - Plate IV

Unknown artist, 1871

Page of numbered black-and-white botanical engravings of flowering plants under the heading PENTANDRIA, from 1840.

The pictorial flora - Plate (page 83)

Unknown artist, 1840