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Animals

11,082 works

Etching of a wooden windmill on a grassy hill with carts, horses, travelers and a dog on a road below.

The Four Windmills

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1650

Etched landscape of a country road with travelers, a cart, a dog, trees, a stream with fishermen and village houses.

Going to Market

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1652

Etching of a snowy farmyard with a barn, bare trees, horses and figures in winter cloaks, including a group inside the stable

Adoration of the Kings

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1646

Etched title page with hunting hounds, a stag head, a rifle, and a coat of arms beneath a Latin dedication.

Titlepage with hounds and hunting equipment

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1646

Etching of six slender hounds grouped on an open field, some standing and two seated in the foreground.

Six Hounds

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1646

Etching of eleven hounds grouped on open ground, some standing, sitting and lying down, rendered in fine hatched lines.

Eleven Hounds

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1646

Etching of winged putti among clouds with parrots and songbirds in a tree and an eagle flying above.

Air

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1647

Etching of a hare hanging by a rope beside a column, with a hunting dog, dead birds and a wicker basket.

The Dead Hare

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1649

Etching of ruined Roman arches with figures, ladders, and ivy in the foreground, by Piranesi.

View of the upper storey of the Cages for Wild Animals built by the Emperor Domitian, associated with the Flavian Amp…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1750/59

Brown wash drawing of herdsmen driving cattle and sheep across a stream under a cloudy sky.

Herdsmen Driving Cattle across a Stream

Jean-Baptiste Deshays, 1760

Etching of a skeleton pulling a startled monk beside a column, with an hourglass on the ground and a Latin caption below.

The Monk, from "Dance of Death"

Wenceslaus Hollar, [1651] late 18th century printing

Etching of a skeleton leading a startled pedlar burdened with a basket and bundles, with a dog nearby.

The Pedlar, from "Dance of Death"

Wenceslaus Hollar, [1651] late 18th century printing

Etching of a skeleton on an overturned barrel cart with a fallen horse and a second skeleton pushing a wheel.

Waggoner, from "Dance of Death"

Wenceslaus Hollar, [1651] late 18th century printing

Numbered lotto game board with small pictures of animals, objects and people, and a central family scene by Schulz.

Neues / Bilder-Lotto / Course of life of the horse. / Nouveau lotto d'images / Het nieuwste lottospeel

Friedrich Gustav Schulz, 1820

Etching of an ornate tapering scabbard with scrolling foliage and a winged female figure at its center.

Lower portion of a scabbard

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645

Etching of townspeople skating and walking on a frozen river beside a brick tower and bare trees in winter.

January (Ianuarius)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1628-29

Etching of a rural April landscape with thatched farmhouses, a church steeple, horse riders, and grazing cattle.

April (Aprills)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1628-29

Red chalk and wash sketch of a seated man with a dog, a reclining figure, and small figure studies on pale paper.

Two Sketches: Man with Dog, Group of Figures

School of Alessandro Magnasco, n.d.

Etching of a riverside village with a tower, houses, a rowing boat, and costumed figures walking on a road in the foreground.

May (Maius)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1628-29

Etching of shepherds and cattle in a village landscape with a bridge, windmill and farmhouses, with Latin text below.

June (Junius)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1628-29

Etching of a Gothic church and harvest workers in a field, with rolling hills and a Latin inscription below.

August (Augustus)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1628-29

Etching of a castle on a rock above a river, with grape pickers filling barrels in the foreground and boats on the water.

October

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1628-29

Etching of Paris street boys playing with a spinning top beside a wooden shed and water wheel, 1770.

Horse Shoes, from The Games of the Urchins of Paris

Jean-Baptiste Tilliard, 1770

Etching of a boar, deer and heron lying dead on the ground, rendered in fine hatched linework.

Boar, deer, heron and other game

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1647

Etching of a large tree, a thatched cottage and a horse-drawn covered cart on a rural road.

Cart with Two Draft Horses

Allart van Everdingen, probably c. 1645/1656

Etching of a sleeping nude infant reclining beneath a tree with two birds in the branches and a club beside him.

Infant Hercules asleep

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1625-77

Etching of a busy courtyard with horsemen, a carriage, and figures before brick and timber buildings with smoking chimneys.

Arundel House from the North

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1646

Etched prospect of walled Tangier with a harbor bay, sailing ships, fortified walls, and soldiers on the hills.

Prospect of the Lower Part of Tangier

Wenceslaus Hollar, ca. 1670

Etching of Tangier's rooftops and hilltop castle walls with a flagged tower, horses and figures in the street below.

Prospect of the inner part of Tangier

Wenceslaus Hollar, ca. 1670

Etching of a rocky wooded landscape with a peasant and dog on a path, and a distant town under clouds.

Peasant with His Dog

Allart van Everdingen, probably c. 1645/1656

Etching of a man riding an ox in a barn while a snarling dog guards a hay manger.

The Dog in the Manger (from John Ogilby, "Aesopics or a Second Colllection of Fables," 1668)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1666

Etching of a lion, leopard, bear, wolf, sheep and roosters gathered under a tree, with a goose flying above.

The Lion Announces a Peace

Allart van Everdingen, probably c. 1645/1656