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Animals

11,058 works

Engraving of a seated bearded man at a desk beside an angel, with a walled city, a swan, a boat and animals.

The artist Jean Duvet in the guise of St. John the Evangelist, sitting at a desk

Jean Duvet, ca. 1546-55

Engraving of a reclining nude nymph with a greyhound in an oval cartouche, framed by caryatids, cherubs and fruit garlands.

The Nymph of Fontainebleau

René Boyvin, n.d.

Pen and watercolor drawing of an elegant drawing room with seated guests, a standing man, a dog, and a fireplace.

The Reception

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Pen and watercolor drawing of an old man setting a saw beside a woman and dog on a city street with music shop signs.

The Saw-Setter

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Watercolor drawing of a busy kitchen with diners at a long table, servants, a roasting fire, hanging hams and a dog.

The Squire's Kitchen

Thomas Rowlandson, late 18th-early 19th century

Small framed print of many horses rearing and galloping across a field, with tiny riders in the distance.

Horses Running

Edouard Eckman after Jacques Callot, 1621

Hand-coloured plate of a colourful pigeon, a goldfinch on a pedestal, and morning glory vines against a cream background.

The language of birds - Plate 1

Unknown artist, 1837

Engraved natural history plate of numbered bivalve mollusk shells and hinge details from an 1826 Corsican catalogue.

Catalogue descriptif et méthodique des annelides et des mollusques de l'ile de Corse - Plate 1

Unknown artist, 1826

Sepia plate showing a bird skeleton in side view with a separate skull, wing and leg bones, captioned Japanisches Zwerghuhn.

Abbildungen von Vogel-Skeletten - Plate XV

Unknown artist, 1879

Etching of a rainy Rouen street with horses in puddles, umbrella-carrying pedestrians, and a street lamp.

Impressions of Rain, Rouen

Camille Pissarro, 1883

Engraved plate of fifteen numbered mollusc shells, spiral snails and ribbed bivalves, arranged in rows on cream paper.

Illustrations of the recent conchology of Great Britain and Ireland - Plate II

Unknown artist, 1844

Engraving of a speckled duck, Anas carolinensis, standing on a grassy bank beside water.

Sir William Jardine's illustrations of the duck tribe - Plate 1

Unknown artist, 1840

Engraving of women visiting a new mother in a canopied bed, with children and a small dog on a tiled floor.

Visit to the New Mother

Abraham Bosse, 1633

Engraved plate with six illustrated figures of sea snails and molluscs with spiral shells and tentacles.

Figures of molluscous animals - Plate 4

Unknown artist, 1859

Colour plate of six bird eggs labelled osprey, Iceland falcon, Greenland falcon, honey buzzard and peregrine, from 1883.

A history of British birds - Plate 3

Unknown artist, 1883

Etching of a man in a top hat beside a horse, with tall trees and rolling hills in the background.

The Sportsman Mounting His Horse

Edgar Degas, 1856

Hand-coloured drawing of a spiral sea shell with its dark open aperture, on a cream page, from an 1799 natural history plate.

The natural history of British shells - Plate XXXVIII

Unknown artist, 1799

Coloured plate of a pocket gopher, Geomys bursarius, clinging to a grassy bank with large claws.

The mammals of Minnesota - Plate (page 8)

Unknown artist, 1892

Sepia etching of a crowd in shadow, with a kneeling cloaked woman at center and a reaching figure at left.

The Claws of a Cat and the Dress of a Devotee - similar to Vice is often clothed in Virtue's habit, plate nine from L…

Francisco Goya, 1815/24

Hand-coloured engraved plate XXII showing twelve numbered figures of bees, ants and wasps with lettered anatomical details.

Illustratio iconographica insectorum quæ in Musæis Parisinis - Plate XXII

Unknown artist, 1799

Etching of two horses grazing in a meadow with a river, boats, and buildings in the distance under a pale sky.

Horses in the Meadow

Edgar Degas, 1891-92

Etching of a woman thrown from a rearing horse beside a crouching wolf-like creature under a dark sky.

A Woman and a Horse, Let Someone Else Master Them, plate ten from Los Proverbios

Francisco Goya, 1815/24

Hand-colored plate of a male and female great tit perched on pine branches with cones, labeled Parus major.

Naturgeschichte der Vögel deutschlands in getreuen Abbildungen und Beschreibungen - Plate 7

Unknown artist, 1805

Hand-coloured plate of numbered insects including mosquitoes and crane flies, with larvae, pupae and wing details, labelled I

Manuscript notes from my journal - Plate I

Unknown artist, 1874

Engraved plate of numbered bivalve shells, including scallops and mussels, with a magnified surface detail.

Catalogue descriptif et méthodique des annelides et des mollusques de l'ile de Corse - Plate 2

Unknown artist, 1826

Coloured plate of a common rorqual whale near a rocky coast, with sailboats and people on shore, from British mammals 1903.

British mammals - Plate (page 73)

Unknown artist, 1903

Hand-coloured plate of a brown songbird with red breast perched on a bramble branch with blackberries and berries.

The language of birds - Plate 5

Unknown artist, 1837

Hand-colored plate of nine butterflies showing upper and under wing views in brown, orange, black and cream tones.

Rhopalocera Malayana :a description of the butterflies of the Malay Peninsula : with 46 co - Plate VIII

Unknown artist, 1882

Engraved plate of numbered sea shells, two large abalone-type shells with smaller specimens around them.

Illustrations of the recent conchology of Great Britain and Ireland - Plate XII

Unknown artist, 1844

Four stippled drawings of whale skull bones labeled Balaena cisarctica on a cream page.

Plates prepared for an unpublished monograph on the mammalian orders Cete and Sirenia - Plate IV

Unknown artist, 1881

Grey wash drawing of two seated figures beside a white cow and cattle under trees, with a draped cloth hanging overhead.

Mercury Rescuing Io from Argus, from "The Metamorphoses of Ovid"

Godfried Maes, late 17th century

Colour plate of numbered dark swallowtail butterflies with yellow and orange wing spots, from a 1906 West Coast butterfly boo

The butterflies of the West Coast of the United States - Plate IV

Unknown artist, 1906