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Animals

11,050 works

Engraved self-portrait of John Kay seated beside a bust, with a cat on the chair and drawing tools on the table.

Portraits of Eminent Scotch Characters

John Kay, 1784-1819

Political cartoon of men reacting to a snarling black cat, Spirit of Discord, escaping a Republican Bag, 1860 lithograph.

Letting The Cat Out of The Bag

Louis Maurer, 1860

Engraving of men catching birds at night by torchlight in a forest, with cages, a lantern and smoke, and a town in the distan

Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium (Hunts of wild animals, birds and fish). Plate 82. Catching birds by night

Jan Collaert the Younger, 1596

Engraving of a leopard leaping from a cage toward a man in an amphitheatre while a crowd and archers watch from above.

Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium (Hunts of wild animals, birds and fish). Plate 14. The Emperor Commodus killing a…

Jan Collaert the Younger, 1596

Red chalk sketch of a standing cow with horns turned right, with faint outlines of another animal on cream paper.

Standing Cattle

Charles-François Daubigny, n.d.

Engraved Holy Family scene: seated Virgin with infant Christ, Saint Joseph offering flowers, donkey and tree beside them.

Aedes Walpolianae, or a Description of the Collection of Pictures at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, the Seat of the Right…

Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, 1550-early 20th century

Woodblock-style print of a boy in a purple kimono riding a toy horse, with Japanese calligraphy and red seals on paper.

Boy Riding a Toy Horse

Komatsubara Suiko, 19th century

Pencil sketch of Mars with a rearing horse, a winged Victory figure behind him, and a veiled figure on the right.

Mars Crowned by Victory and Listening to Moderation

Antoine-Jean Gros, n.d.

Etching of Cephalus receiving a javelin and hound from Procris in a wooded landscape, with Latin caption below.

Procris Giving Cephalus a Dog and a Javelin

Antonio Tempesta, 1606

Engraving of Europa riding a white bull by the sea, with nymphs, a piper, cattle, ships and an island in the background.

The Rape of Europa

Giulio Bonasone, 1546

Engraving of King Lear on his throne pointing at Cordelia as courtiers and attendants watch in a columned hall.

King Lear Casting Out His Daughter Cordelia (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 1, Scene 1)

Richard Earlom, first published 1792; reissued 1852

Engraved sheet with four numbered male portrait heads in a grid, labeled in handwriting in the margins.

Portretten van Gerard van Nijmegen, Jacob Cats, Reinier Vinkeles en Dirk Langendijk

Jacob Ernst Marcus, 1817

Engraving of a banquet inside an arched hall, with a ragged beggar and a dog in the foreground by a doorway.

Lazarus at the Rich Man's Gate, from "The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus"

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1554

Colored design drawing of a theatre ceiling with a gilded lunette, classical figures, and a frieze labeled Aristophane and Te

Design for a Ceiling at Théatre Français, Paris

Aimé Chenavard, 1810-38

Lithograph of a Roman rider on horseback before classical columns, with a kneeling petitioner and soldiers in a crowd.

The Justice of Trajan, plate for l'Album des Salons

Jules Robert Pierre Joseph Challamel, 1840

Etching of a gnarled pollard willow with a lion at its base and a kneeling bearded man in the lower right landscape.

St. Jerome beside a Pollard Willow

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1648

Caricature of a top-hatted man reading a newspaper and dancing beside a bagpipe player in front of the Bourse.

Quel animal! Il fait baisser toutes mes valeurs et il danse tout de même

Cham, 1867

Woodblock print of a raccoon dog defending cubs from a pale dog while two men struggle nearby in a grassy field.

Raccoon Dog Protects Its Cubs from Attack by a Dog

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1875

Charcoal sketch on a sketchbook page of cats resting together on a cushion beneath loose lines of furniture.

Sketch of three cats in An 1893 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Engraved genre scene of two women, a startled man with a hat and basket, children and a dog at a stone doorway.

Le Geste Napolitain

Pierre Étienne Moitte, 1763

Engraving of a lion hunt with horsemen, camels, a wagon, and dead lions beneath palm trees, with a Latin inscription below.

Semiramis on the Lion Hunt

Gérard de Lairesse

Pen and watercolor drawing of a man fishing as leaping fish and winged insects with human faces float above the river.

Fishey Flies and Fly Fishes (recto); Typeface Designs (verso)

John Leech, 1837-99

Engraving of a woman and child in a cottage garden with birds flying around a house and trees.

The Island Bee, from "Picture Poesies"

George John Pinwell, first published 1867, reissued 1874

Watercolor of a white stork facing a brown frog beside reeds and a willow, with a windmill in the background.

Frog and bird

Alfred Crowquill, 1850

Graphite sketches of a lion's head, including a full-face study and two smaller head studies on cream paper.

A Lion, Full Face, August 30, 1841

Eugène Delacroix, 1841

Graphite sketch of a fallen male nude with raised arm and studies of clenched fists by Eugène Delacroix, 1852.

Studies of a Fallen Male Nude for "Hercules and the Horses of Diomedes"

Eugène Delacroix, 1852

Ink sketch of a lion crouching in the lower left and a seated female nude above it on a pale sheet.

Studies of a Lion and a Female Nude (recto); Figure Studies (verso)

Eugène Delacroix, ca. 1844

Ink and wash sketches of a rearing horse attacked by a lion, plus a lion wrestling a serpent in brown wash.

Studies of a Rearing Horse Attacked by a Lion and a Lion Wrestling with a Serpent

Eugène Delacroix, 1830s

Pen and grey wash drawing of horses at a hay rack in a stable yard beside a thatched barn, with pigs resting nearby.

Stable Yard with Horses

Thomas Rowlandson, 1784-1795

Brown ink and wash design of a bird resting among curving branches and feathery leaves inside a circular frame.

Design for a Plate Decorated with a Bird and Plant Motifs

Karl Bodmer, 1825-93

Grey wash drawing of a wooded landscape with a cart and horses crossing a ford beside a leaning tree.

Wooded Landscape with a Cart and Horses Crossing a Ford

Roelant Roghman, 1660

Engraving of an armored horseman spearing a wild boar as hunting dogs attack, framed by ornate borders with figures.

Wild Boar Hunt with Spears, from "Hunting Scenes in Ornamental Frames"

called Stradanus Jan van der Straet, 1570