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Animals

11,205 works

Hand-coloured plate of a banded-tailed squirrel clinging to a tree trunk beside green foliage.

Histoire naturelle des mammifères - Plate (page 44)

Unknown artist, 1824

Six numbered speckled eggs of the woodcock, Scolopax rusticula, shown in two columns on a cream plate.

Eggs of British birds - Plate 7

Unknown artist, 1895

Woodcut of figures on a wheel of fortune within a decorative border, with German verse above and below.

Von Ungluckes Fal, title page chapter 37 from "Sebastian Brandt, Das Narrenschrift"

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Black and white print of a heraldic coat of arms with three crowned lions' heads, a crowned lion on the helmet, and ornate sc

Coat of arms with Three Lions' Heads

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Plate 44 of Noctuidae showing eighteen numbered moths in brown and tan tones, wings spread, arranged in three columns.

Noctuelles et géomètres d'Europe - Plate 44

Unknown artist, 1909

Hand-coloured plate showing a large dark freshwater mussel shell with numbered smaller bivalve and snail shells around it.

A descriptive manual of British land and fresh water shells, containing descriptions and f - Plate I

Unknown artist, 1858

Hand-colored engraving of two rodents, one on a rock slab and one curled in a burrow, with moss and stones.

Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur, mit Beschreibungen - Plate CLXXXIV

Unknown artist, 1774

Woodcut of a laurel-crowned allegorical woman leading two ornately harnessed horses, labeled Providentia and Moderatio.

The Great Triumphal Car third sheet

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Woodcut of two horses in ornate harness led by two women holding laurel wreaths, with a winged figure above.

The Great Triumphal Car, eight sheet

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Engraving of two women embracing before an arched doorway, with a castle and mountains in the background and a small dog belo

The Visitation, from "The Life of the Virgin" (copy)

Albrecht Dürer, early 16th century

Hand-coloured plate of a male and female moorhen with red bills on marsh vegetation beside a wooden post.

A natural history of British birds - Plate (page 15)

Unknown artist, 1775

Hand-coloured colour wheel plate with concentric numbered rings and a central triangle of red, black, blue and yellow.

An exposition of English insects - Plate (page 25)

Unknown artist, 1776

Engraved 1694 anatomical plate showing labelled dissections and a spiral snail shell across several numbered figures.

Martini Lister Exercitatio anatomica - Plate 1

Unknown artist, 1694

Lithograph plate of six numbered mammal skulls and a lower jaw, labelled Skulls of Bornean Mammals.

A descriptive account of the mammals of Borneo - Plate XIX

Unknown artist, 1893

Engraving of songbirds perched among branches, flowers and rocks, captioned The Wedding, from an 1868 bird book.

Among the birds - Plate (page 28)

Unknown artist, 1868

Engraved plate of five beetles, numbered 1 to 5, showing stag beetle species with antennae and detailed wing cases.

Johann Euseb Voets Beschreibungen und Abbildungen hartschaaligter Insecten Coleoptera Linn - Plate III

Unknown artist, 1785

Hand-coloured plate PL.III showing eighteen numbered sea snail shells in red, brown, yellow and grey patterns.

Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, or, The British conchology - Plate III

Unknown artist, 1778

Lithograph of the underside of an extinct giant sloth skull showing rows of teeth on the palate, labelled Plate IV.

Description of the skeleton of an extinct gigantic Sloth, Mylodon robustus, Owen, with obs - Plate IV

Unknown artist, 1842

Black and white illustration of a girl in a bonnet and two children in a grassy field, one carrying a basket of fruit.

Birds of the wave and woodland - Plate (page 238)

Unknown artist, 1894

Hand-coloured plate of four metallic beetles labelled Buprestis species, with localities India, Brazil and Java.

The natural history of beetles - Plate 6

Unknown artist, 1852

Lithographed plate of numbered fossil shells, spiral gastropods and bivalves, drawn in black line on cream paper.

Conchyliologie fossile du bassin de l'Adour, ou, Description des coquilles fossiles qui on - Plate (page 71)

Unknown artist, 1837

Engraved battle scene of soldiers and smoke near a walled fort with ships on the water, titled Fort Constitution.

Attack on Fort Constitution, October 7, 1777

Johann Martin Will, ca. 1777

Engraved battle scene with smoke, cavalry charges, a cannon, officers in the foreground and a marching column near a bare tre

Battle of Saratoga, September 19, 1777

Johann Martin Will, ca. 1777

Lithograph of two bust portraits: a woman in a white headwrap and a man with long hair and a fur collar, labeled Bewohner von

Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der Säugethiere - Plate 2

Unknown artist, 1824

Hand-colored print of a family in a wagon driven by a galloping horse, with Catherine Market behind them.

Mose, Lize & Little Mose Going to California

Henry R. Robinson, ca. 1849

Hand-colored plate of two Lapland buntings, a young female on a rock and an adult male with black head and rust collar on the

Illustrations of British birds - Plate 13

Unknown artist, 1837

Hand-colored plate of four winged insects, including wasps in green, black, yellow and brown-blue, from 1828 British entomolo

Illustrations of British entomology - Plate XLVI

Unknown artist, 1828

Engraved plate of numbered scientific drawings of small crustacean body parts and whole animals, 1895.

On some new and rare Crustacea from Scotland - Plate VI

Unknown artist, 1895

Plate of lithographed whale skeletons and isolated bones, including skulls, vertebrae and ribs, from an 1880 cetacean osteogr

Ostéographie des cétacés vivants et fossiles - Plate XVIII

Unknown artist, 1880

Hand-coloured plate of a male and female dusky grouse on the ground, with a butterfly flying at upper left.

Illustrations of the game birds of North America - Plate (page 17)

Unknown artist, 1835

Plate of eighteen numbered noctuid moth specimens in brown and cream tones, labelled Noctuidae, Pl. 47.

Noctuelles et géomètres d'Europe - Plate 47

Unknown artist, 1909

Lithograph plate VIII of freshwater snail shells from Lake Tanganyika, with numbered shaded and outline views of species.

Iconographie malacologique des animaux mollusques fluviatiles du Lac Tanganika - Plate VIII

Unknown artist, 1888