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Animals

11,142 works

Coloured plate of three grey pigeons with black wing bars and red feet standing on a wooden ledge before a brick wall.

The illustrated book of pigeons - Plate (page 250)

Unknown artist, 1876

Engraved plate 12 showing many beetles in dorsal view with small anatomical detail drawings around them.

Thesaurus entomologicus Oxoniensis - Plate 12

Unknown artist, 1874

Hand-coloured plate of numbered land snail shells in varied sizes, with species names listed at the bottom.

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

Unknown artist, 1857

Hand-coloured engraving of a shaggy dark three-toed sloth with pale face hanging from a green branch beside pink flowers.

The natural history of quadrupeds, and cetaceous animals - Plate 26

Unknown artist, 1811

Colour plate of a chipping sparrow nest on an apple branch with three speckled blue eggs below.

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

Unknown artist, 1886

Hand-coloured plate of eight numbered butterflies, mostly blue and grey, some resting on grass stems.

Nomenclatur und Beschreibung der Insecten in der Grafschaft Hanau-Münzenberg wie auch der - Plate 44

Unknown artist, 1777

Hand-coloured 1841 plate showing two views of a Voluta pacifica shell, one exterior with zigzag bands, one showing the open a

Exotic conchology - Plate 15

Unknown artist, 1841

Hand-colored plate of a striped mongoose-like mammal climbing a green tree trunk, head raised, from 1824 natural history book

Histoire naturelle des mammifères - Plate XXVIII

Unknown artist, 1824

Shaded pencil sketch of a rocky outcrop with ridges, labeled as the breeding place of the terns, on a cream page.

Birds' nesting in India - Plate (page 109)

Unknown artist, 1877

Hand-colored plate of five beetles, a large black stag beetle at center with smaller red and orange beetles around it.

A catalogue of Lucanoid Coleoptera - Plate IV

Unknown artist, 1864

Sepia plate of labeled freshwater and land snail shells, including Limnaea stagnalis and Ancylus species, from an 1880 natura

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

Unknown artist, 1880

Hand-colored plate of Cervus rufus: a male deer with antlers, a female lying down, and a spotted fawn in a grassy landscape.

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

Unknown artist, 1827

Hand-coloured 1836 plate showing four parrot species perched on branches, with German, Latin and French labels.

Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der Vögel - Plate 67

Unknown artist, 1836

Plate of eleven numbered Parnassius butterflies, upper and under wing views, with dark spots on pale wings and a caption belo

Lepidoptera Niepeltiana - Plate VII

Unknown artist, 1914

Pen and gray wash design with circular New Testament scenes framed by ornate scrollwork and an angel holding a banner.

Design for a Painted Glass with Scene from the New Testament

Christoph Murer, 1598

Hand-coloured plate of two Platax-type fish specimens with yellow fins and detailed scales, from an 1862 ichthyological atlas

Atlas ichthyologique des Indes orientales néêrlandaises - Plate CCCLXXXI

Unknown artist, 1862

Coloured plate of a brown subterranean vole crawling among green grass stems and leafy plants beside a burrow entrance.

Atlas de poche des mammifères de France, de la Suisse romane et de la Belgique - Plate 23

Unknown artist, 1910

Lithograph of a man carrying a wounded figure on his back beside a horse, with a dark rocky landscape behind them.

The Good Samaritan

Jules Joseph Augustin Laurens, 1857

Hand-coloured engraving of numbered sea fish and a shark above, and birds including a vulture on rocks below.

Le petit Buffon des enfants - Plate VIII

Unknown artist, 1847

Engraving of a rocky landscape with a horse and groom, large trees on the right, and a hilltop town under hatched clouds.

Landscape with a Horseman and His Groom

Battista Franco Veneziano, ca. 1552-61

Hand-coloured 1789 plate of five butterflies, including a black and blue species and a yellow striped swallowtail.

Genera insectorum Linnaei et Fabricii iconibus illustrata - Plate XIV

Unknown artist, 1789

Hand-colored plate of coiled eels with blotched brown markings and detailed jaw diagrams, from an 1877 Dutch East Indies fish

Atlas ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Neerlandaises - Plate CLIII

Unknown artist, 1877

Plate 6: Lion, from "Various animals" (Diversi animali)

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Plate 10: Elephant, from "Various animals" (Diversi animali)

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der Säugethiere - Plate 74

Unknown artist, 1824

Etching of a large bear walking over rocky ground with a small cub behind it, against a rocky landscape.

Plate 4: Bear, from "Various animals" (Diversi animali)

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Plate 9: Leopard, from "Various animals" (Diversi animali)

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Coloured plate of two fancy pigeons, a yellow barb and a red barb, standing on a ledge against a stone wall.

The illustrated book of pigeons - Plate (page 286)

Unknown artist, 1876

Etching of a pack horse with a lettered saddle blanket, a seated herder and sheep in a hilly landscape.

Plate 1: a pack horse, from "Various animals" (Diversi animali)

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Hand-coloured plate of beetles with orange and black wing covers and large antennae, plus small anatomical line drawings.

Thesaurus entomologicus Oxoniensis - Plate 16

Unknown artist, 1874

Etching of a turbaned herdsman on horseback driving cattle across a hillside toward distant mountains, within a circular fram

Herdsman on Horseback Drives Animals

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1646

Engraved plate of fifteen numbered British land and freshwater snail shells, with a large banded shell at center.

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

Unknown artist, 1896