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Animals

11,077 works

Hand-coloured plate of a male manucode bird of paradis with red head, green plumes and long tail wires, perched on a branch.

Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des épimaques - Plate 17

Unknown artist, 1835

Plate VI with coloured drawings of mayflies and caddisflies above matching artificial fishing flies on hooks.

The fly-fisher's entomology - Plate VI

Unknown artist, 1901

Etching of a pale horse grazing beside dense woodland, with two small seated figures in shadow at the lower right.

Horse in a Wood

Charles Émile Jacque, 1846

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a standing horse in bridle and saddle, with a faint grid and a second study of the head at r

Bridled horse

Hand-colored plate of a brown deer on rocks beside a leafy branch, with a head study above, from an 1824 mammal book.

Histoire naturelle des mammifères - Plate (page 204)

Unknown artist, 1824

Pencil and wash drawing of a crowned rider on a white horse entering a city past a triumphal arch, with soldiers and crowds.

The Entrance of Charlemagne into Pavia

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1840

Etching of a shepherdess and child walking among grazing sheep beneath trees in an open pastoral landscape.

Landscape and Animals

Charles Émile Jacque, 1846

Hand-coloured engraving of a small brown owl with yellow eyes perched on a branch, captioned Strix Scops.

Naturgeschichte der Vögel deutschlands in getreuen Abbildungen und Beschreibungen - Plate 44

Unknown artist, 1805

Watercolor drawing of a woman arranging flowers before a bust, with a glasshouse and swans behind, framed by bird and fountai

An Allegory of Empress Josephine as Patroness of the Gardens at Malmaison

François Gérard, ca. 1805-6

Watercolor of geese and goslings alarmed by foxes and cubs emerging from rushes beside a pond under a willow.

A Goose and a Gander with their Goslings Honking in Alarm as Two Foxes with their Cubs Emerge from the Rushes

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, mid-18th-early 19th century

Pen and ink drawing of two nude classical statues beside rearing horses on a ruined pedestal, with small figures nearby.

The Dioscuri on Monte Cavallo (recto); Study of a Spiral Staircase (verso)

Maarten van Heemskerck, ca. 1533

Engraving of a crowned rider on horseback with attendants, and a gaunt nude corpse on the left beside a bare tree.

The King's Sons Shooting Their Father's Corpse

Master MZ, ca. 1500

Hand-coloured plate of a blue-headed songbird with red wing patches perched on a leafy flowering branch.

The language of birds - Plate 10

Unknown artist, 1837

Brown wash drawing of a gallows with a hanged figure, birds rising above, and small figures on a dark ridge under a pale sky.

The Hanged Man

Victor Hugo, ca. 1855-60

Ornate pen and wash title page for the Illustrirte Zeitung 1856, with a winged lyre-playing figure, cityscapes and allegorica

Title Page for "Illustrirte Zeitung 1856"

Johann Caspar Nepomuk Scheuren, 1856

Hand-coloured plate of four spiny sea shells, three large and one small, showing their openings in brown and blue tones.

Conchology, or, The natural history of shells - Plate 45

Unknown artist, 1811

Lithograph plate of numbered whale skeletal bones, including a fan-shaped baleen plate, a flipper skeleton and curved ribs.

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

Unknown artist, 1881

Hand-coloured natural history plate showing numbered insect larvae, pupae, cocoons and winged adults in rows on cream paper.

Manuscript notes from my journal - Plate VII

Unknown artist, 1874

Engraved plate XXXVI showing numbered bivalve shells in exterior and interior views, from an 1844 conchology illustration.

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

Unknown artist, 1844

Drawing of a common opossum clinging to a branch with eucalyptus leaves and gumnuts, above a river landscape with ships.

The mammals of Australia - Plate VIII

Unknown artist, 1871

Two line drawings of insect leg tarsi with bristles and claws, labelled a and b, from an 1882 butterfly study.

Rhopalocera Malayana :a description of the butterflies of the Malay Peninsula : with 46 co - Plate (page 608)

Unknown artist, 1882

Engraved plate numbered 51 showing many snails and molluscs with spiral shells, tentacles and detailed anatomical views.

Figures of molluscous animals - Plate 51

Unknown artist, 1859

Colour plate of nine speckled bird eggs labelled dotterel, killdeer plover, ringed plover, kentish plover and little ringed p

A history of British birds - Plate 26

Unknown artist, 1883

Coloured plate of numbered orange fritillary butterflies showing upper and undersides, from a 1906 West Coast butterfly book.

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

Unknown artist, 1906

Brown ink drawing of a wide dune landscape with a herdsman and sheep under a cloudy sky.

A Panoramic Landscape with a Herdsman and His Flock

Jan Ruischer, 17th century

Hand-coloured plate of five bivalve seashells, some with reddish-brown banded exteriors and one shown pale from inside.

The natural history of British shells - Plate LXVIII

Unknown artist, 1799

Plate IX showing numbered mayfly-like insects and artificial fishing flies on a cream page.

The fly-fisher's entomology - Plate IX

Unknown artist, 1901

Hand-coloured plate of several bivalve and conch shells labelled Donax and Venus, from an 1811 natural history book.

Conchology, or, The natural history of shells - Plate 58

Unknown artist, 1811

Hand-coloured plate of a dark-coated fallow deer with pale antlers standing on sandy ground with grass and a rock.

Histoire naturelle des mammifères - Plate (page 218)

Unknown artist, 1824

Hand-colored engraving of two yellow-green finches perched on a gnarled branch, male and female, with caption below.

Naturgeschichte der Vögel deutschlands in getreuen Abbildungen und Beschreibungen - Plate 57

Unknown artist, 1805

Etching of a great windblown beech tree with twisted roots, with two small figures and a dog in woodland at left.

The Great Beech (Two Farmers with their Dog)

Jacob van Ruisdael, ca. 1652

Etching of Christ crucified between two thieves, lit from above, with soldiers on horseback and a crowd below.

Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves: The Three Crosses

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1660