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Animals

11,050 works

Engraving of scrolling vine ornament with parrots and other birds perched among leaves and flowers.

Vine Ornament with Parrots and Birds

Martin Schongauer, before 1474

Engraving of a chaotic battle with armored horsemen, fallen soldiers, chariots, and a burning city in the background.

Battle with a Cutlass

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27

Watercolor design of a chimney piece with a heraldic coat of arms above a grey mantel against a red wall.

Design for Chimney Piece, Château du Duc de Meternick, Johannisburg

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Engraved ornament of scrolling foliage with an owl at lower center and small birds flying and perched among the leaves.

Ornament with Owl Mocked by Day Birds

Martin Schongauer, c. 1474

Brown ink and wash drawing of a mounted rider on a rearing horse amid fallen soldiers, with a winged figure in the clouds.

Battle Scene with Central Figure on Rearing Horse

possibly Unknown German artist, n.d.

Woodcut of armored knights jousting in a tournament arena, with spectators in galleries and heraldic shields on the walls.

The Second Tournament with a Tapestry Showing Samson and the Lion

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1509

Engraving of a lion hunt with armored men, horses, lions and a reclining nude woman beneath trees, with Latin text below.

The Lion Hunt, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1500-1534

Pen and brown ink drawing of ornamental military trophies with helmets, armor, griffins, scrolls and a shield.

Designs for Ornamental Military Trophies (recto and verso)

Enea Vico, ca. 1540-70

Red chalk vignette of a huntress with spear, hunting dog, stag head, and two putti within a rococo cartouche.

Vignette Illustrating Torquato Tasso's "Gerusalemme Liberata" (X:78)

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, 1745

Brown ink drawing in a circle of a dragon head, a long-beaked bird, and a grimacing human mask.

Two Beasts and a Human Mask within a Circle

Gaetano Piccini, 1727

Etching of cattle, sheep, and a horse gathering toward a boat beside a large tree, with figures in the right foreground.

Noah and the Animals Entering the Ark

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1650/55

Pen drawing of an ornate lidded silver tankard with a lion finial and engraved soldier figures on its body.

Preparatory Drawing for an Illustration of a Seventeenth-Century Dutch Tankard from the Demidov Collection

C. Prosdocimi, 1879

Vertical pilaster drawing with winged putti, a torch, a small temple model and reeds on a tan ground.

Two Pilaster with White Putti on Tan Ground

Giovanni Mauro della Rovere, 1595-1640

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated female figure in clouds, a putto, a draped figure, and a boar on a title page.

Title Page

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1727-1804

Pen and ink design sketch of a decorated wall with garlands, urns, a bird, medallions, and grotesque panels.

Design for Grotesque Wall Decoration

Perino del Vaga, early 16th century

Pen drawing of ornamental scrollwork with a central putto and two figures riding dolphins over waves below.

Designs for Ornamental Motifs with Figures, Real and Imaginary Animals, and Coats of Arms of the Medici Grand Dukes

Stefano Della Bella, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of a seated woman and children watching a standing woman with a small dog in a garden.

The Education of a Dog

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, n.d.

Pen and ink design of a lion's head flanked by two putti on scrolled ornament, with grey wash shading.

Design for a Lion's Head flanked by Satyrs

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and ink design of an ornate fountain with two lions spouting water beside a central garlanded urn and tiered basin.

Design for a Fountain with Two Water-Spouting Lions (recto); Sketch for Triumph of Galatea [?] (verso)

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Engraving of a bearded man and a seated woman handling a monkey beside a tree, with a parasol on the ground.

The Five Senses

François Boucher, 1720-70

Engraving of a woman in a flowing robe beside a birdcage and a parrot on a branch, with a bowl and umbrella in the garden.

The Four Elements

Pierre Alexandre Aveline, 1738-49

Pen and gray wash drawing of a seated woman, putti, a crown and lambs above an ornate cartouche, with a dove above.

Cartouche with a Crown, the Virgin (?) and the Holy Ghost, and Four Putti

Johann Matthias Kager, early 17th century

Soft brown drawing of a woman in a hat riding a large winged bird, with lettering for a February 1912 Japanese dinner.

Femme et Cygne, 22 fevrier 1912, Diner Japonaise (Woman and Bird, 22 February 1912, J

Pierre Roche, 1912

Watercolor page of red, green and white parrots and a cockatoo on branches, with Dutch handwritten labels, dated 1784.

Birds from Ambon

Jan Brandes, 1784

Grey wash drawing of a crowned rider on horseback led past a kneeling robed figure, with onlookers and architecture.

Mordecai rides through the Streets in the Apparel the King has sent him

Pseudo-Aert Ortkens, 16th-mid 16th century ?

Grey wash drawing of a crowned king and seated woman at a banquet table, with a kneeling man, standing attendant and dog.

The King and Haman at Esther's Banquet of Wine

Pseudo-Aert Ortkens, 16th-mid 16th century ?

Woodcut of two women embracing before a stone archway, with a mountain landscape, trees, and a dog in the foreground.

The Visitation, from "The Life of the Virgin"

Albrecht Dürer, 1503-4

Brown ink drawing of a wide landscape with a tree, figures, and a donkey on a path, with trees receding to the horizon.

Landscape with figures

Jan Lievens, 1620-74

Brown ink drawing of a shepherd with sheep beside willow trees, with a small church on a distant hill.

Landscape with a Shepherd and His Flock

Jan Lievens, 1622-74

Watercolor of a bearded God in flames pointing toward a nude Adam beside a fiery horse, c. 1795.

God Judging Adam

William Blake, ca. 1795

Watercolor of a winged woman on a flying white horse lifting a baby from a sleeping figure on a green hillside at night.

Pity

William Blake, ca. 1795

Pen and grey wash drawing of a woman with a camel, pagoda and ornate scrollwork, labelled ASIA.

Allegory of Asia, from the Four Continents

Godfried Maes, 17th century