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Animals

11,077 works

Engraved natural history plate showing numbered drawings of molluscs and sea snails with shells and tentacles.

Figures of molluscous animals - Plate 12

Unknown artist, 1859

Lithograph of a spotted sea leopard on a rock with a second seal in the surf and birds flying along the shore.

The mammals of Australia - Plate III

Unknown artist, 1871

Engraved illustration of a dark-headed duck with white flank patch standing on a rock beside grass, caption Anas tadornoides.

Sir William Jardine's illustrations of the duck tribe - Plate 2

Unknown artist, 1840

Numbered plate of fly-fishing hooks, feathered flies and tying diagrams with labelled parts, drawn in ink and colour.

The fly-fisher's entomology - Plate III

Unknown artist, 1901

Hand-coloured plate of two elongated bivalve shells, one open showing its interior and one closed showing ridged exterior.

The natural history of British shells - Plate LIII

Unknown artist, 1799

Two black and white photos of savanna grassland: a line of riders and pack animals crossing hills, and tall grass with one pe

Mammals of Panama - Plate 16

Unknown artist, 1920

Hand-colored 1811 plate showing six seashell specimens in pink, red, tan and blue arranged over faded descriptive text.

Conchology, or, The natural history of shells - Plate 11

Unknown artist, 1811

Black and white plate photograph of a puma lying stretched out on a wooden surface, labelled Felis concolor, Puma, Plate II.

The mammals of Minnesota - Plate II

Unknown artist, 1892

Hand-colored plate of an adult male Greater bird-of-paradise with yellow head, green throat and long white plumes on a branch

Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des épimaques - Plate 6

Unknown artist, 1835

Hand-coloured plate of three banded swallowtail butterflies on pink flowers and a green bulbous plant, numbered 55.

Arcana entomologica; or illustrations of new, rare and interesting insects - Plate 55

Unknown artist, 1841

Engraved natural history plate showing numbered mollusk shells, including ribbed bivalves and radially ridged limpet shells.

Catalogue descriptif et méthodique des annelides et des mollusques de l'ile de Corse - Plate 3

Unknown artist, 1826

Hand-coloured plate of a young brown bear cub on snow beside a green conifer branch, with French caption text.

Histoire naturelle des mammifères - Plate (page 78)

Unknown artist, 1824

Hand-coloured bird plate showing three wagtails on stones and a wooden plank over water, with a Latin and German caption.

Naturgeschichte der Vögel deutschlands in getreuen Abbildungen und Beschreibungen - Plate 19

Unknown artist, 1805

Printed broadside with 48 numbered vignettes of scenes from General Garibaldi's life, with a portrait at top left.

Broadside with 48 scenes relating to the life of Giuseppe Garibaldi

Juan Llorens, 1862

Hand-coloured plate of seventeen numbered Musca fly species with lettered detail views of wings and larvae.

Illustratio iconographica insectorum quæ in Musæis Parisinis - Plate XXIV

Unknown artist, 1799

Broadside grid of 36 numbered engravings of quadrupeds with Spanish captions, printed in Barcelona in 1862.

Broadside with 36 images of quadrupeds (animals)

Juan Llorens, 1862

Sepia engraving of numbered bivalve and mollusk shells, exterior and interior views, from an 1844 conchology plate.

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

Unknown artist, 1844

Broadside of 48 small woodcut fable scenes with verses, showing animals and figures, with a portrait of Samaniego at top left

Broadside with 48 scenes depicting fables by Félix María de Samaniego

Juan Llorens, ca. 1860-70

Colour plate of a snarling wolf standing over a dead white sheep in a forest, captioned The Last British Wolf.

British mammals - Plate (page 171)

Unknown artist, 1903

Broadside of 48 small woodcut scenes telling the prodigal son story, each with a Spanish caption, on aged paper.

Broadside with 48 scenes relating to the story of the prodigal son

Juan Llorens, ca. 1860-70

Printed broadside with 48 numbered woodcut scenes of a hunchback's life, each with a Spanish caption.

Broadside with 48 scenes relating to the life hunchback

Juan Llorens, ca. 1860-70

Printed broadside titled Carnaval with 48 numbered woodcut panels of costumed carnival figures, carriages, and musicians.

Broadside with 48 figures from carnival

Juan Llorens, ca. 1860-70

Aged broadside with 48 numbered woodcut scenes of figures and street life, each with a rhyming Spanish caption, titled Estrav

Broadside with 48 scenes showing extravagances of the world

Juan Llorens, ca. 1860

Broadside of sixteen caricatures of people with animal heads, each with a Spanish verse, titled Celebridades del Mundo No. 66

Broadside with 16 caricature figures representing celebrities of the world

Juan Llorens, ca. 1860-70

Broadside of 48 numbered woodcut allegorical scenes with the sun and moon at top, titled El Sol y la Luna.

Broadside with 48 allegorical figures pertaining to the sun and the moon

Juan Llorens, ca. 1860-70

Printed broadside with 48 numbered scenes of Barcelona festivals and street customs, with Spanish captions.

Broadside with 48 scenes depicting the celebrations and customs of Barcelona

Juan Llorens, ca. 1860-70

Hand-coloured natural history plate of numbered insects including flies, beetles, larvae and pupae arranged in rows.

Manuscript notes from my journal - Plate IV

Unknown artist, 1874

Plate 19 with five numbered line drawings of molluscs and shells, some side views and some dorsal views, from an 1859 natural

Figures of molluscous animals - Plate 19

Unknown artist, 1859

Lithographic plate of eight numbered whale bone specimens, including vertebrae and baleen fragments, labeled Balaena cisarcti

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

Unknown artist, 1881

Printed plate of a bird skeleton showing skull, beak, neck vertebrae, ribcage and pelvis, captioned Notornis Hochstetteri Mey

Abbildungen von Vogel-Skeletten - Plate XXXV

Unknown artist, 1879

Colour plate of twenty-two numbered butterflies showing upper and under wing patterns in purple, blue, yellow and brown.

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

Unknown artist, 1882

Hand-coloured plate numbered 56 showing three British shell specimens, labelled 1, 2 and 3, from an 1799 natural history.

The natural history of British shells - Plate LVI

Unknown artist, 1799