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Animals

11,133 works

Etching of Bacchus with a leafy wreath and animal skin, walking beside a large dog, with an urn and tree at left.

Bacchus, from 'Game of Mythology' (Jeu de la Mythologie)

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Engraving of a smiling curly-haired child holding a cat, with a Dutch verse caption below.

A child with a cat

Cornelis Bloemaert

Loose black ink and ochre sketch of a reclining nude woman with a black cat beside her on a bed.

Olympia

Édouard Manet, 1923

Etching of two mythological figures in a landscape, a man and a woman holding a spear, with a dog beside her.

Cephalus and Procris, from 'Game of Mythology' (Jeu de la Mythologie)

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Etching of Perseus holding Medusa's severed head and a shield beside a fallen body, with rocky hatched background.

Persée et Méduse

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Etching of a woman in flowing drapery riding a bull through rough sea waves, with small distant figures on the shore.

Jupiter and Europa, from 'Game of Mythology' (Jeu de la Mythologie)

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Pencil sketch of a horse grazing on a sloping hillside, with a tree branch and rough ground lines around it.

Pencil sketch of horses grazing in A Wellington sketchbook c 1908-12

Petrus van der Velden, 1908

Etching of Phaeton's overturned chariot and plunging horses falling through clouds toward a sea and hillside landscape.

Phaeton, from 'Game of Mythology' (Jeu de la Mythologie)

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Etching of two women walking hand in hand past a tree, with a grazing animal and hills in the background.

Jupiter and Callisto, from 'Game of Mythology' (Jeu de la Mythologie)

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Engraving of lynxes attacking deer in a bare winter forest beside a stream, with Latin verse below the image.

Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium (Hunts of wild animals, birds and fish). Plate 30. Deer attacked by lynxes

Jan Collaert the Younger, 1596

Pencil sketch of a horse and wagon crossing a wooden bridge toward a windmill and farm buildings in a flat Dutch landscape.

Dutch Landscape: Horse and Wagon Crossing Bridge Towards Windmill

Possibly Anton Mauve, n.d.

Etching of Actaeon with stag antlers recoiling as nude women bathe in a pool, with hunting dogs and forest behind.

Acteon, from 'Game of Mythology' (Jeu de la Mythologie)

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Brown wash drawing of a violent lion hunt with horsemen, spears, shields, rearing horses and attacking lions.

Lion Hunt

Pieter Claesz Soutman and Sir Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1615-1618

Hand-colored plate of four hawks and falcons perched on branches, each labeled with German, Latin and French names.

Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der Vögel - Plate 7

Unknown artist, 1836

Colour plate of twelve numbered butterflies with red, orange, black and cream wing patterns, titled Tafel I.

Lepidoptera Niepeltiana - Plate I

Unknown artist, 1914

Sepia plate of freshwater shells: small Sphaerium and Pisidium specimens above, larger Unio tumidus and Unio pictorum below.

The land and freshwater shells of the British Isles - Plate I

Unknown artist, 1880

Etching of a bearded figure in robes driving a horse-drawn chariot through clouds, one arm outstretched.

Proserpina, from 'Game of Mythology' (Jeu de la Mythologie)

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Painted plate of a pipistrelle bat flying above a half-timbered house with rooftops at dusk.

Atlas de poche des mammifères de France, de la Suisse romane et de la Belgique - Plate 3

Unknown artist, 1910

Hand-coloured engraving of a fox and camel above a vulture, eagle and hoopoe on a branch, labelled in French.

Le petit Buffon des enfants - Plate IV

Unknown artist, 1847

Hand-coloured 1789 plate of numbered beetles, including a large stag beetle and a dark ground beetle, labelled Coleoptera.

Genera insectorum Linnaei et Fabricii iconibus illustrata - Plate II

Unknown artist, 1789

Coloured plate of four fish specimens in red, orange and striped patterns, with figure labels and French captions in the marg

Atlas ichthyologique des Indes orientales néêrlandaises - Plate CCLVII

Unknown artist, 1862

Pencil drawing of carts and oxen on a road beside walls and buildings, with a domed church on a hill, Madrid outskirts.

View of the Outskirts of Madrid

Fritz Bamberger, 1857

Black and white lithograph of three monkeys on a tree trunk and rocky ground, with German, Latin and French captions.

Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der Säugethiere - Plate 24

Unknown artist, 1824

Printed scientific table of fossil species with rows of names and columns of locality marks, rotated on the page.

Systematic lists illustrative of the Flora, Fauna, Palaeontology, and Archaeology of the N - Plate (page 166)

Unknown artist, 1870

Watercolor of a stone tower, village houses, a covered wagon on a road, and a castle ruin on a hill.

View of Weinheim on the River Neckar

Carl Philipp Fohr, 1800-1818

Coloured plate of a blue carrier cock pigeon with green neck, white cere and red legs, standing on a wooden floor.

The illustrated book of pigeons - Plate (page 100)

Unknown artist, 1876

Scientific plate of numbered beetles in colour and grey with smaller anatomical detail drawings on cream paper.

Thesaurus entomologicus Oxoniensis - Plate 2

Unknown artist, 1874

Coloured scientific plate of a cyprinid fish with olive scales and green fins, with a grey head detail at lower left.

Atlas ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Neerlandaises - Plate CVII

Unknown artist, 1877

Hand-coloured engraving of a common baboon with brown fur standing on a green mossy rock, captioned Common Baboon.

The natural history of quadrupeds, and cetaceous animals - Plate 3

Unknown artist, 1811

Hand-coloured 1777 entomological plate showing a green and black beetle with numbered insect larvae and pupae around it.

Nomenclatur und Beschreibung der Insecten in der Grafschaft Hanau-Münzenberg wie auch der - Plate 7

Unknown artist, 1777

Hand-colored plate of a brown macaque monkey seated on a rock ledge, gripping the stone with its hands.

Histoire naturelle des mammifères - Plate IV

Unknown artist, 1824

Pencil drawing of a seated man reaching toward a hanging bird nest in a tree beside water, with woods behind.

Birds' nesting in India - Plate (page 14)

Unknown artist, 1877