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Unknown Artists

6,941 works

Illuminated manuscript leaf with gothic text in two columns, blue and gold initials, and marginal creatures and foliage.

Manuscript Leaf from the Beauvais Missal

Unknown artist, 1285

Chromolithograph of Miltonia moreliana orchids with dark maroon and pink blooms above long green leaves on moss.

Reichenbachia - Plate 83

Unknown artist, 1892

Six numbered speckled bird eggs in two rows on a cream background, labelled Grey Plover, from an 1895 plate.

Eggs of British birds - Plate 43

Unknown artist, 1895

Hand-coloured plate of eleven numbered flies with a wing diagram above, from a 1776 English insect exposition.

An exposition of English insects - Plate IX

Unknown artist, 1776

Hand-coloured engraved plate showing numbered shells of bivalves and a spiral snail, from an 1778 British conchology book.

Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, or, The British conchology - Plate XV

Unknown artist, 1778

Hand-colored engraving of an oryx antelope standing on a grassy rock ledge with a pyramid in the distance.

Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur, mit Beschreibungen - Plate CCLVII

Unknown artist, 1774

Engraved botanical plate XXXII showing numbered flower dissections and fruits of Martinezia, Iriartea, Morenia and Sanchezia.

Florae Peruvianae et Chilensis prodromus, sive, Novorum generum plantarum Peruvianarum et - Plate XXXII

Unknown artist, 1797

Hand-coloured engraving of a bittern bending over shallow marsh water to catch a fish, with reeds and hills behind.

A natural history of British birds - Plate (page 43)

Unknown artist, 1775

Engraved plate XI of numbered beetles in side and top views, labelled Scarabaeus, from Voet's 1785 insect descriptions.

Johann Euseb Voets Beschreibungen und Abbildungen hartschaaligter Insecten Coleoptera Linn - Plate XI

Unknown artist, 1785

Lithograph of two large freshwater mussel shells, Cameronia admirabilis, one showing its pale interior and one its ribbed out

Iconographie malacologique des animaux mollusques fluviatiles du Lac Tanganika - Plate XXXIV

Unknown artist, 1888

Lithograph plate of fossil tibia and fibula bones from five angles, with lettered anatomical labels, Plate XX, 1842.

Description of the skeleton of an extinct gigantic Sloth, Mylodon robustus, Owen, with obs - Plate XX

Unknown artist, 1842

Coloured botanical plate of Hernandia peltata showing white round fruits with dark calyces and a broad green leaf on a branch

Comprehensive catalogue of Queensland plants - Plate XIII

Unknown artist, 1909

Hand-coloured engraving of two painted quail, one brown and one blue-plumed, standing on a rocky outcrop, 1835.

Illustrations of the game birds of North America - Plate (page 39)

Unknown artist, 1835

Hand-colored plate of two green beetles with red and orange wing covers, labeled male and female Sagra buquetii from China.

The natural history of beetles - Plate 27

Unknown artist, 1852

Engraved plate of a spiny lobster (227) and a lobster with large claws (228), labelled Crustacés, from an 1897 atlas.

Atlas de poche des coquilles des côtes de France Manche, océan, Méditerranée communes, pit - Plate F

Unknown artist, 1897

Black and white lithograph of a lioness with three playful lion cubs on a rocky ledge, plate 83 from a 1824 natural history b

Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der Säugethiere - Plate 83

Unknown artist, 1824

Colour plate of eight numbered speckled eggs of the Little Stint, Tringa minuta, arranged in three rows on cream paper.

Eggs of British birds - Plate 48

Unknown artist, 1895

Hand-coloured plate showing four insects, including flies with striped and banded abdomens and spread wings, from an 1828 ent

Illustrations of British entomology - Plate 47

Unknown artist, 1828

Hand-coloured 1778 engraving of seven seashells and shell specimens, including a bivalve, spiral snail shell and urchin forms

Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, or, The British conchology - Plate XVII

Unknown artist, 1778

Engraved plate of fossil whale teeth, a skull and bone fragments, numbered figures on a cream page, 1880.

Ostéographie des cétacés vivants et fossiles - Plate LVII

Unknown artist, 1880

Engraved botanical plate of a moss plant with numbered magnified details of leaves, capsules and cell structures.

Icones muscorum - Plate 102

Unknown artist, 1864

Hand-coloured engraving of a green woodpecker on a mossy tree trunk and a wryneck on a branch above.

A natural history of British birds - Plate (page 47)

Unknown artist, 1775

Eight numbered illustrated moths with grey-brown forewings and red and black hindwings on a cream plate titled Noctuidae.

Noctuelles et géomètres d'Europe - Plate 76

Unknown artist, 1909

Histoire naturelle des mammifères - Plate (page 226)

Unknown artist, 1824

Botanical plate of a white Laelia autumnalis orchid with open flowers, a bud, and green leaves on a beige background.

Reichenbachia - Plate 87

Unknown artist, 1892

Hand-colored engraved plate of three long-billed shorebirds, likely snipe and woodcock, on sketched marsh ground.

Illustrations of the game birds of North America - Plate (page 41)

Unknown artist, 1835

Hand-coloured engraved plate of numbered flies in two groups, with wing diagrams and head drawings, from 1776.

An exposition of English insects - Plate X

Unknown artist, 1776

Hand-colored engraving of a brown and white antelope with curved horns standing on a patch of green grass.

Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur, mit Beschreibungen - Plate CCLXIV

Unknown artist, 1774

Engraved botanical plate XXXI showing flowers, dissected floral parts and fruit structures for three plant genera.

Florae Peruvianae et Chilensis prodromus, sive, Novorum generum plantarum Peruvianarum et - Plate XXXI

Unknown artist, 1797

Chromolithograph plate of six numbered yellowshank eggs, most with brown and grey speckling, one pale blue-grey.

Eggs of British birds - Plate 52

Unknown artist, 1895

Engraved plate of Scarabaeus carnifex beetles with numbered detail views of heads and thoraces, 1785.

Johann Euseb Voets Beschreibungen und Abbildungen hartschaaligter Insecten Coleoptera Linn - Plate XII

Unknown artist, 1785

Lithograph of the underside of a giant sloth's left hind foot showing labelled bones and long curved claws.

Description of the skeleton of an extinct gigantic Sloth, Mylodon robustus, Owen, with obs - Plate XXII

Unknown artist, 1842