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Unknown Artists

6,941 works

Hand-colored plate of a male and female Antilope melanotis antelope standing among shrubs on grassy ground.

Darstellung neuer oder wenig bekannter Säugethiere in Abbildungen und Beschreibungen - Plate XII

Unknown artist, 1827

Hand-coloured botanical plate of a sea-side alder branch with serrated green leaves and brown catkins.

The North American sylva or, a description of the forest trees of the United States, Canad - Plate (page 85)

Unknown artist, 1842

Chalk drawing on blue paper of a young man with curled hair in an embroidered coat, arm resting on a surface.

Portrait of a Boy

Unknown artist, late 17th century

Hand-coloured 1836 bird plate showing four perching chats and thrushes with German and Latin captions, numbered plate 43.

Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der Vögel - Plate 43

Unknown artist, 1836

Hand-coloured plate of numbered insects including cockroaches, a green mantis, crickets and grasshoppers, labelled Hemiptera.

Genera insectorum Linnaei et Fabricii iconibus illustrata - Plate VIII

Unknown artist, 1789

Numbered pen drawings of slugs and snails in side views, with small enlarged shell and egg details on Plate I.

The collector's manual of British land and freshwater shells - Plate I

Unknown artist, 1896

Poster of Uncle Sam handing a watch to a child with a large clock, announcing daylight saving ends October 27th, 1918.

Saving daylight ends, for 1918, Sunday, Oct. 27th Set your clock back one hour at 2 A.M. Sunday October 27th

Unknown artist, 1918

Painted plate of a hazel dormouse on a branch among leaves and hazelnuts, with French caption naming Myoxus avellanarius.

Atlas de poche des mammifères de France, de la Suisse romane et de la Belgique - Plate 15

Unknown artist, 1910

Red WWI poster of a Liberty figure with a sword, flanked by a sailor and soldier with rifles, urging Liberty Bond purchases.

Don't dream of victory - Fight for it! Buy Liberty Bonds

Unknown artist, 1918

Engraved botanical plate of Ononis vaginalis showing a branching plant with flowers and labeled floral dissection details.

Description des plantes nouvelles et peu connues - Plate 32

Unknown artist, 1799

1918 poster of Uncle Sam pulling a clock hand while a startled man is shown beside a clock marked extra daylight.

Victory! Congress passes daylight saving bill

Unknown artist, 1918

Hand-coloured engraving of a rhinoceros above a leopard and panther beside a palm tree and rocks.

Le petit Buffon des enfants - Plate III

Unknown artist, 1847

Poster showing launched cargo ships, an eagle, mounted soldiers and an airplane above a churning sea, with text announcing 95

The tidal wave--July 4, 1918--95 ships launched United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation /

Unknown artist, 1918

Plate of numbered beetles in colour with smaller black and white anatomical detail drawings around them.

Thesaurus entomologicus Oxoniensis - Plate 9

Unknown artist, 1874

Hand-coloured plate of numbered land snails and slugs with species names listed in a caption block below.

Manual of the land and fresh-water shells of the British Islands - Plate III

Unknown artist, 1857

Engraved plate of two bats with spread wings, labeled Megaderma lyra and Rhinolophus diadema, from an 1824 natural history bo

Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der Säugethiere - Plate 54

Unknown artist, 1824

Engraved plate of ice house cross-sections and a circular floor plan, with a pavilion above ground and a metric scale bar.

Traité de la composition et de l'ornement des jardins - Plate 37

Unknown artist, 1825

Four short-faced bald-head pigeons in blue, black, red and yellow plumage perched on wooden ledges.

The illustrated book of pigeons - Plate (page 214)

Unknown artist, 1876

Hand-coloured plate of five numbered butterflies, orange, white and brown, one resting on a twig with green leaves.

Nomenclatur und Beschreibung der Insecten in der Grafschaft Hanau-Münzenberg wie auch der - Plate 32

Unknown artist, 1777

Two hand-colored views of a brown striped Achatina sultana snail shell on a cream page, from Exotic conchology, 1841.

Exotic conchology - Plate 11

Unknown artist, 1841

Engraved plate of a flying colugo skin with spread limbs and membrane, labeled Flying Colugo, Pl. 20.

The natural history of quadrupeds, and cetaceous animals - Plate 20

Unknown artist, 1811

Hand-coloured botanical plate of a slender plant with pale tubular flowers and detailed dissections of flower parts and seeds

Ferdinandi Bauer Illustrationes florae Novae Hollandiae, sive, Icones generum quae in Prod - Plate (page 14)

Unknown artist, 1813

Coloured plate of a yellow-breasted chat nest of woven twigs among green leaves, with three speckled eggs below.

Illustrations of the nests and eggs of birds of Ohio - Plate XX

Unknown artist, 1886

Plate of twenty numbered illustrations of male insect abdominal appendages, shown in end and side views.

The Orthoptera of Indiana - Plate II

Unknown artist, 1903

WWI poster of a helmeted soldier with bayonet standing over a fallen figure, text reading Come On! buy more Liberty Bonds.

Come on! Buy more Liberty Bonds

Unknown artist, 1918

Sepia plate of labeled freshwater and land snail shells, including Planorbis, Paludina and Physa species, in rows.

The land and freshwater shells of the British Isles - Plate IV

Unknown artist, 1880

Coloured plate of a golden jackal standing on a rock, facing left, with italic caption Chacal dit du Sénégal.

Histoire naturelle des mammifères - Plate XXII

Unknown artist, 1824

Coloured botanical plate of Myrica inodora showing green leaves, yellow catkins, and dark round fruits on a branch.

The North American sylva or, a description of the forest trees of the United States, Canad - Plate (page 102)

Unknown artist, 1842

Pencil-style drawing of a tree trunk with a bird nest, leaves, twigs and a hanging fruit, from an 1877 book on Indian birds.

Birds' nesting in India - Plate (page 95)

Unknown artist, 1877

Hand-coloured plate showing four beetles, a large black stag beetle with orange-edged wing cases above three smaller beetles.

A catalogue of Lucanoid Coleoptera - Plate III

Unknown artist, 1864

Hand-colored plate of five tropical butterflyfish in yellow, black and red tones with numbered figures and printed legend.

Atlas ichthyologique des Indes orientales néêrlandaises - Plate CCCLXXV

Unknown artist, 1862

Hand-coloured plate of pygmy antelope pair above Saltiana antelope male, female and juvenile among shrubs, 1827.

Darstellung neuer oder wenig bekannter Säugethiere in Abbildungen und Beschreibungen - Plate XVI

Unknown artist, 1827