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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Engraving of two lions caught in a net as shielded hunters with torches approach through a palm landscape.

Lion trap

Flemish Jan Collaert II, 1600

The Rhinoceros

Albrecht Dürer, 1510

Black-and-white illustration of two men in fur hats and winter clothing walking through deep snow past evergreen trees.

"Cat, Answered François; "Dat's Mister Lynk,'" Illustration for Mooswa & Other of the Boundaries (William Briggs, 190…

Arthur Henry Howard Heming, 1910

Etching of a large elephant in light facing robed, bearded men holding a scroll in shadow at left.

Otras Leyes por El Pueblo (Other Laws for the People)

Francisco Goya, 1810

Monochrome illustration of a snake raising its head above grass toward a frightened rabbit in the foreground.

"Mammy, Mammy!" He Screamed in Mortal Terror

Ernest Thompson Seton, 1890

Etching of a striped cat crouched near an archway while a small mouse watches from the left edge.

The Large Cat

Netherlandish Cornelis Visscher, 1650

Engraved rococo ornament with scrolls, a seated plumed figure, birds and flowers, by Antoine Aveline, 1730.

Ornament Design with Birds and a Figure

Antoine Aveline, 1730

Pencil sketch of a rider on a galloping horse leading a pack of running dogs down a hillside, with a second rider behind.

Tannery, with His Dogs, Came Galloping Up the Cañon

Ernest Thompson Seton, 1890

Engraved vertical ornament panel with a winged figure holding a bird cage, centaurs, horses, and symmetrical scrollwork.

Ornament Panel with Bird Cage

Nicoletto da Modena, 1500

Japanese woodblock print of a large black carp streamer over a city view with Mount Fuji, a bridge and figures on a riverbank

One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1850

Engraving of a rearing horse with a braided tail against a distant landscape of hills and buildings, labelled Danus.

A Danish Horse, from the fourth set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Etching of a winged dragon bearing the Virgin and Child on its back, with a banner above and flames from its mouth.

Parade Float with the Virgin and Child riding a Dragon, plate 8 from A. Isacchi, "Relatione di Alfonso Isachi intorno…

Giovanni Luigi Valesio, 1610

Engraved rococo cartouche design with crown, putti, lions and winged griffins, by Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger.

Design for Cartouche with Crown, Two Putti Serving Bacchus, and Two Lions from "Cartouches Nouvellement Inventez"

Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, 1790

Engraving of two horses, labeled Romanus and Equus Matronalis, before a distant walled city with a bridge.

A Roman Horse, from the first set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Woodblock print of grazing horses and handlers in a green field beside a blue sea, with a large pine tree at center.

Chiryu, The Horse Fair, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1830

Engraving of a rearing horse with a bridle, labeled GALLICVS, with a city and hills in the background.

A French Horse, from the first set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Engraving of fighting horses rearing in a hilly landscape with a wolf at lower left and trees at upper right.

Fighting Horses, from the fourth set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600