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Animals

11,142 works

Numbered pen drawings of slugs and snails in side views, with small enlarged shell and egg details on Plate I.

The collector's manual of British land and freshwater shells - Plate I

Unknown artist, 1896

Etching of a reclining lion with a full mane, with a small animal standing in the distance on the left.

Plate 5: Reclining Lion, from "Various animals" (Diversi animali)

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Painted plate of a hazel dormouse on a branch among leaves and hazelnuts, with French caption naming Myoxus avellanarius.

Atlas de poche des mammifères de France, de la Suisse romane et de la Belgique - Plate 15

Unknown artist, 1910

Etching of a tall spotted dog standing beside two smaller dogs, one lying down and one standing on it, with a building at lef

Plate 11: Dogs, from "Various animals" (Diversi animali)

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Etching of a ram and sheep grazing in a pasture, with a small seated shepherd at the left edge.

Plate 12: Sheep and ram in a pasture, from "Various animals" (Diversi animali)

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Hand-coloured engraving of a rhinoceros above a leopard and panther beside a palm tree and rocks.

Le petit Buffon des enfants - Plate III

Unknown artist, 1847

Plate 15: Doe, from "Various animals" (Diversi animali)

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Plate of numbered beetles in colour with smaller black and white anatomical detail drawings around them.

Thesaurus entomologicus Oxoniensis - Plate 9

Unknown artist, 1874

Engraving of the Judgment of Solomon: a king on a throne, a soldier with a raised sword, and two women pleading over a baby.

The Judgment of Solomon

Boëtius Adamsz. Bolswert, 1595-1633

Hand-coloured plate of numbered land snails and slugs with species names listed in a caption block below.

Manual of the land and fresh-water shells of the British Islands - Plate III

Unknown artist, 1857

Engraved plate of two bats with spread wings, labeled Megaderma lyra and Rhinolophus diadema, from an 1824 natural history bo

Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der Säugethiere - Plate 54

Unknown artist, 1824

Four short-faced bald-head pigeons in blue, black, red and yellow plumage perched on wooden ledges.

The illustrated book of pigeons - Plate (page 214)

Unknown artist, 1876

Hand-coloured plate of five numbered butterflies, orange, white and brown, one resting on a twig with green leaves.

Nomenclatur und Beschreibung der Insecten in der Grafschaft Hanau-Münzenberg wie auch der - Plate 32

Unknown artist, 1777

Two hand-colored views of a brown striped Achatina sultana snail shell on a cream page, from Exotic conchology, 1841.

Exotic conchology - Plate 11

Unknown artist, 1841

Engraved plate of a flying colugo skin with spread limbs and membrane, labeled Flying Colugo, Pl. 20.

The natural history of quadrupeds, and cetaceous animals - Plate 20

Unknown artist, 1811

Coloured plate of a yellow-breasted chat nest of woven twigs among green leaves, with three speckled eggs below.

Illustrations of the nests and eggs of birds of Ohio - Plate XX

Unknown artist, 1886

Plate of twenty numbered illustrations of male insect abdominal appendages, shown in end and side views.

The Orthoptera of Indiana - Plate II

Unknown artist, 1903

Sepia plate of labeled freshwater and land snail shells, including Planorbis, Paludina and Physa species, in rows.

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

Unknown artist, 1880

Coloured plate of a golden jackal standing on a rock, facing left, with italic caption Chacal dit du Sénégal.

Histoire naturelle des mammifères - Plate XXII

Unknown artist, 1824

Pencil-style drawing of a tree trunk with a bird nest, leaves, twigs and a hanging fruit, from an 1877 book on Indian birds.

Birds' nesting in India - Plate (page 95)

Unknown artist, 1877

Hand-coloured plate showing four beetles, a large black stag beetle with orange-edged wing cases above three smaller beetles.

A catalogue of Lucanoid Coleoptera - Plate III

Unknown artist, 1864

Hand-colored plate of five tropical butterflyfish in yellow, black and red tones with numbered figures and printed legend.

Atlas ichthyologique des Indes orientales néêrlandaises - Plate CCCLXXV

Unknown artist, 1862

Pen and brown ink sketch of a cavalryman mounting a horse, with flowing mane and tail, on pale paper.

Cavalryman Mounting a Horse

Luigi Sabatelli

Hand-coloured plate of pygmy antelope pair above Saltiana antelope male, female and juvenile among shrubs, 1827.

Darstellung neuer oder wenig bekannter Säugethiere in Abbildungen und Beschreibungen - Plate XVI

Unknown artist, 1827

Hand-coloured 1836 plate of four perching finch-like birds with labelled captions, including a long-tailed bird and a bullfin

Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der Vögel - Plate 55

Unknown artist, 1836

Black-and-white plate of two large Ornithoptera butterflies showing dark wings with white spots and pale hindwing bands.

Lepidoptera Niepeltiana - Plate VI

Unknown artist, 1914

Atlas ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Neerlandaises - Plate CXLII

Unknown artist, 1877

Coloured plate of a wood mouse in grass by a tree trunk, with a second mouse peeking from behind the trunk.

Atlas de poche des mammifères de France, de la Suisse romane et de la Belgique - Plate 19

Unknown artist, 1910

Hand-coloured engraving plate IX with numbered animals: a beaver, bird of paradise, wolf, monkey and marmot.

Le petit Buffon des enfants - Plate IX

Unknown artist, 1847

Hand-coloured 1789 plate of numbered Hemiptera insects including aphids, a cicada, a ladybug and a twig with leaf.

Genera insectorum Linnaei et Fabricii iconibus illustrata - Plate XI

Unknown artist, 1789

Engraved natural history plate of a slug and many British land and freshwater snail shells with scale bars, numbered Plate II

The collector's manual of British land and freshwater shells - Plate II

Unknown artist, 1896

Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der Säugethiere - Plate 64

Unknown artist, 1824