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Animals

11,077 works

Engraved plate of numbered bivalve mollusc shells, one large central shell surrounded by smaller specimens in various views.

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

Unknown artist, 1844

Hand-coloured plate of a fanciful crested bird with spread wings perched on a branch with orange flowers.

The language of birds - Plate 11

Unknown artist, 1837

Hand-coloured engraved plate of numbered leaf beetles in side and top views with Latin captions, Tab. XXVIII.

Illustratio iconographica insectorum quæ in Musæis Parisinis - Plate XXVIII

Unknown artist, 1799

Engraving of a crowned king fleeing a unicorn through a forest, with armored horsemen and a stone archway nearby.

A King Pursued by a Unicorn, from the Unicorn Series

Jean Duvet, ca. 1555

Plate of engraved figures showing numbered views of shelled molluscan larvae with ciliated margins and spines.

Figures of molluscous animals - Plate 58

Unknown artist, 1859

Three lithograph views of a whale skull labeled 1, 2 and 3, showing rear, side and top angles on a cream page.

Plates prepared for an unpublished monograph on the mammalian orders Cete and Sirenia - Plate VIII

Unknown artist, 1881

Hand-coloured plate VIII showing many insects at different life stages, including larvae, pupae, flies, beetles and bees.

Manuscript notes from my journal - Plate VIII

Unknown artist, 1874

Etched design of an ornate fireplace with a bird in a shell, armor frieze, overmantel with candelabra, and flanking chairs.

Bird in shell at the center of the lintel, with a frieze of trophies, surmounted by an overmantel with candelabra and…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1769 (?)

Lithograph plate of black-striped and common wallabies among grass and rocks in an Australian landscape, 1871.

The mammals of Australia - Plate XI

Unknown artist, 1871

Engraved plate of a swan named Cygnus Bewickii standing on rocks and grass at the water's edge.

Sir William Jardine's illustrations of the duck tribe - Plate 8

Unknown artist, 1840

Engraved illustration of Narathura achelous butterfly, wings open, one side dark and the other spotted grey, on beige page.

Rhopalocera Malayana :a description of the butterflies of the Malay Peninsula : with 46 co - Plate (page 653)

Unknown artist, 1882

Etching of an elderly bearded man with a staff feeling his way along a wall in a dim interior, with a dog at his feet.

The Blindness of Tobit

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1651

Coloured plate of five numbered murex sea shells in brown, yellow and cream tones from an 1811 conchology book.

Conchology, or, The natural history of shells - Plate 1

Unknown artist, 1811

Reddish-brown chiaroscuro woodcut in three panels showing nude men abducting women among horses and classical architecture.

The Rape of the Sabines

Andrea Andreani, 1585

Etching of a bull attacked by dogs in a bullring while a mounted horseman in a plumed hat watches from the right.

Plate 25 from "La Tauromaquia": They loose dogs on the bull

Francisco Goya, 1816

Engraving of St. John writing on Patmos with an eagle, a tree, sea and boats, and the Virgin and Child in light above.

St. John the Evangelist on Patmos

Martin Schongauer, 1470-1491

Coloured plate of numbered orange fritillary butterflies with spotted and checkered wing patterns, labelled Plate XVII.

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

Unknown artist, 1906

Etching of a rural landscape with cattle and a figure beneath a large tree beside a pond, with a shed at right.

Landscape with Animals

Charles Émile Jacque, n.d.

Engraved plate XLVII showing many numbered mollusc shells and small anatomical diagrams, from an 1844 British conchology book

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

Unknown artist, 1844

Sideways black and white plate of American elk with large antlers beside a fence, a second elk at lower left, shrubs and a bu

The mammals of Minnesota - Plate VI

Unknown artist, 1892

Lying Dog

Charles Émile Jacque, 1843

Hand-colored engraving of a young male orange silky bird, red head, black throat, yellow belly, perched on a branch.

Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des épimaques - Plate 25

Unknown artist, 1835

Hand-coloured plate showing numbered insects and matching fishing flies tied to hooks on a cream background.

The fly-fisher's entomology - Plate XII

Unknown artist, 1901

Etching of two horses grazing near a wooden fence beside a dense wooded area, with birds flying over an open sky.

Two Horses in a Wood

Charles Émile Jacque, 1845

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in a white ruff collar and fur-trimmed coat, with a Dutch verse below.

Portret van Jacob Cats op 57-jarige leeftijd

Willem Jacobsz. Delff, 1635

Engraved plate of ten numbered sea slugs and flatworms, one large specimen with branched appendages at top, on cream paper.

Figures of molluscous animals - Plate 69

Unknown artist, 1859

Hand-coloured plate of a brown female ibex with curved grey horns on a rock, with a head study above it.

Histoire naturelle des mammifères - Plate (page 240)

Unknown artist, 1824

Hand-colored engraving of a brown wading bird with a long bill standing on a sandy shore beside grass.

Naturgeschichte der Vögel deutschlands in getreuen Abbildungen und Beschreibungen - Plate 94

Unknown artist, 1805

Hand-colored plate of four longhorn beetles with detail sketches, shown among green leaves and blue flowers.

Arcana entomologica; or illustrations of new, rare and interesting insects - Plate 78

Unknown artist, 1841

Hand-coloured plate of numbered British snail shells in red, brown, yellow and grey, drawn in spiral detail on cream paper.

The natural history of British shells - Plate XXXIX

Unknown artist, 1799

Two black-and-white photographs of Przewalski's horse standing on gravel, one showing faint stripes on the foreleg.

British mammals - Plate (page 363)

Unknown artist, 1903

Plate showing a bird skeleton in side view with long neck, wing bones, ribcage and clawed feet, labeled Menura superba.

Abbildungen von Vogel-Skeletten - Plate LXXXVI

Unknown artist, 1879