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Unknown Artists

6,941 works

Engraved botanical plate of Aralia hispida with leafy stems, umbel flower clusters, roots, and numbered flower detail sketche

Description des plantes nouvelles et peu connues - Plate 41

Unknown artist, 1799

Hand-coloured 1836 plate of four perching finch-like birds with labelled captions, including a long-tailed bird and a bullfin

Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der Vögel - Plate 55

Unknown artist, 1836

Black-and-white plate of two large Ornithoptera butterflies showing dark wings with white spots and pale hindwing bands.

Lepidoptera Niepeltiana - Plate VI

Unknown artist, 1914

Atlas ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Neerlandaises - Plate CXLII

Unknown artist, 1877

Coloured plate of a wood mouse in grass by a tree trunk, with a second mouse peeking from behind the trunk.

Atlas de poche des mammifères de France, de la Suisse romane et de la Belgique - Plate 19

Unknown artist, 1910

Engraved plate showing four garden doors and barriers: arched doorway, picket gate, rustic lattice gate, and diamond-pattern

Traité de la composition et de l'ornement des jardins - Plate 45

Unknown artist, 1825

Hand-coloured engraving plate IX with numbered animals: a beaver, bird of paradise, wolf, monkey and marmot.

Le petit Buffon des enfants - Plate IX

Unknown artist, 1847

Engraved portrait of a man with long curled hair, mustache, lace collar and fur-trimmed royal mantle, labeled Ludovicus XIII.

Louis XIII

Hand-coloured 1789 plate of numbered Hemiptera insects including aphids, a cicada, a ladybug and a twig with leaf.

Genera insectorum Linnaei et Fabricii iconibus illustrata - Plate XI

Unknown artist, 1789

Propaganda poster of a shouting soldier in a cap holding a red flag, with bold Russian lettering reading war until victory.

Zaëm svobody. Voǐna do pobedy

Unknown artist, 1917

Engraved natural history plate of a slug and many British land and freshwater snail shells with scale bars, numbered Plate II

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

Unknown artist, 1896

Brown-toned Russian war loan poster showing a pilot in a biplane cockpit with smoke clouds and orange Cyrillic lettering.

Podpishites' na 5 1/2% voennyǐ zaëm. Prodolzhite put' k pobiedie

Unknown artist, 1916

Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der Säugethiere - Plate 64

Unknown artist, 1824

Hand-coloured botanical plate of a tufted grass-like plant with pale flower heads and detailed dissections of flowers, seeds

Ferdinandi Bauer Illustrationes florae Novae Hollandiae, sive, Icones generum quae in Prod - Plate (page 15)

Unknown artist, 1813

Coloured plate of three grey pigeons with black wing bars and red feet standing on a wooden ledge before a brick wall.

The illustrated book of pigeons - Plate (page 250)

Unknown artist, 1876

Engraved plate 12 showing many beetles in dorsal view with small anatomical detail drawings around them.

Thesaurus entomologicus Oxoniensis - Plate 12

Unknown artist, 1874

Hand-coloured plate of numbered land snail shells in varied sizes, with species names listed at the bottom.

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

Unknown artist, 1857

Hand-coloured engraving of a shaggy dark three-toed sloth with pale face hanging from a green branch beside pink flowers.

The natural history of quadrupeds, and cetaceous animals - Plate 26

Unknown artist, 1811

Coloured botanical plate of long-leaved willow showing a large leaf, catkins and branches with stamens.

The North American sylva or, a description of the forest trees of the United States, Canad - Plate (page 123)

Unknown artist, 1842

Colour plate of a chipping sparrow nest on an apple branch with three speckled blue eggs below.

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

Unknown artist, 1886

Hand-coloured plate of eight numbered butterflies, mostly blue and grey, some resting on grass stems.

Nomenclatur und Beschreibung der Insecten in der Grafschaft Hanau-Münzenberg wie auch der - Plate 44

Unknown artist, 1777

Hand-coloured 1841 plate showing two views of a Voluta pacifica shell, one exterior with zigzag bands, one showing the open a

Exotic conchology - Plate 15

Unknown artist, 1841

Hand-colored plate of a striped mongoose-like mammal climbing a green tree trunk, head raised, from 1824 natural history book

Histoire naturelle des mammifères - Plate XXVIII

Unknown artist, 1824

Engraved botanical plate of Bejaria racemosa showing a flowering branch with buds, leaves, and numbered flower dissection det

Description des plantes nouvelles et peu connues - Plate 51

Unknown artist, 1799

Shaded pencil sketch of a rocky outcrop with ridges, labeled as the breeding place of the terns, on a cream page.

Birds' nesting in India - Plate (page 109)

Unknown artist, 1877

Hand-colored plate of five beetles, a large black stag beetle at center with smaller red and orange beetles around it.

A catalogue of Lucanoid Coleoptera - Plate IV

Unknown artist, 1864

Sepia plate of labeled freshwater and land snail shells, including Limnaea stagnalis and Ancylus species, from an 1880 natura

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

Unknown artist, 1880

Hand-colored plate of Cervus rufus: a male deer with antlers, a female lying down, and a spotted fawn in a grassy landscape.

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

Unknown artist, 1827

WWI recruitment poster of a uniformed British soldier with a rifle, captioned Follow me! Your country needs you.

Follow me! Your country needs you

Unknown artist, 1914

Engraved plate of three Gothic garden chapels and a hermitage beside a river with a bridge and boat.

Traité de la composition et de l'ornement des jardins - Plate 53

Unknown artist, 1825

Hand-coloured 1836 plate showing four parrot species perched on branches, with German, Latin and French labels.

Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der Vögel - Plate 67

Unknown artist, 1836

Plate of eleven numbered Parnassius butterflies, upper and under wing views, with dark spots on pale wings and a caption belo

Lepidoptera Niepeltiana - Plate VII

Unknown artist, 1914